Possibly our best hope would be to charge each and every activist, advocate, commissioner and council watcher to select one or two people to mentor. Even if our strong community members for example a former mayor, Sheila Cameron, could give a prepared piece to some neophyte to present to council and then have this new gal help prepare the next and so on - we'd bring a new wrinkle in the process. More than anything it would prepare another wave of activism. Plus it would be harder for the complicit press and sneering mayor to dismiss so many wonderful contributions out of hand.
Speaking of expertise, the following two clips are filled with sound information and probing financial concerns for the Hall property park.
For many years the science, financial, ecological, design, historic, landscape, use and other concerns have been couched as either - or choices, or considerations that will jeopardize deadlines, EIR approval, regulatory constraints or other obstacles. Most of these are and were just not true. It was political worldview to deliberately use of this property to create win - lose battles that demonized individuals and communities. The future holds the new culture possible for us where diverse ideas can be accommodated without needing accusations and blame as the only strategy.
