Well - my hand or what is left of it went through a hand shaking test last night after city council. I have full feeling in the fingers that I have left so I think I am past the critical stage and there will be no need for a citizen induced fasciotomy on my right hand.Car door might have won the battle but car door did not win the war.
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Lots of Baltimore Oriole's being sighted also but I rarely see one.
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Holy crap it's windy - I gotta golf today - should be fun for my 1st round of the year.
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OH - City Council???
I'm not even going to attempt to explain all that went down and the uneasiness of total silence. I mean seriously, total silence. When an aldermen says "I move to blah blah blah and there is silence, the room holds their breath, The Mayor says "Is there a second" And even the crickets are holding their breath, I thought my head was going to explode.
The Grocery Store/Hardware Store/Health club are all moving forward and I THINK we figured out a work around for the zoning problems or at least we have until December 31 2014 to work out the kinks. If the kinks do NOT get worked out I will be very, VERY angry. The Mayor brought of a solution which I think the attorneys suggested we not do but . . . . sometimes you have to think outside the box to get things done. It was either that or - - - NO!
The whole problem was not with Eisenga-land and what they intend to do with the area (well, not BIG problems at least) but what happens to all other industrial zones now and in the future. I feel all too often officials try to solve NOW problems and defer future problems to someone else.
And here is THAT problem. The lawyer on Eisenga's side kept saying that there is no problem because it's all Conditional Use and all future City Councils have to do is say NO.
To me that is not a solution. Saying NO is a very very hard thing to do, especially with a packed city hall filled with people begging please please please give us our shiny toy. If you are a parent have you ever given in to your kid who is begging for something even though you know in the long run it might be bad?
YES is very easy, NO is very hard.
Have we created a different problem for future councils? Probably in 20 years I can see council rolling their eyes asking WHY WHY but at least they won't have to say NO!
In a nutshell we are going to invent a new zoning area, an I-3 for future zones industrial zones and my head spins because I do not know enough to understand this fully . . YET!
All I know is that once this super tense meeting was over there were hand shakes coming from both sides of the fence. At the moment there will be no Pay Day Loans which was my big bugaboo because I have seen 1st hand what a Pay Day Loan does to an area . . twice, and it ain't pretty. If ou need to bring down property values fast, get a Pay Day Loan.
Counsel went from 6:00 to 11:00, a 5 hour session and I believe this council will, on average have longer sessions that past councils.
WAIT A MINUTE!!! OMG
Look what just showed up at my feeder. That is crazy. I have to get an orange out there!
Remember back in Public Enemies Days when the group strangers all got together at The Kurth to celebrate Columbus and all it's wonderfulness and talk about the movie?Something appeared on Facebook a few days ago and I was emailed and asked "isn't this a photo you took?"
Why yes it is - It's on the
ICanHasCheeseburgers
The Kurth and kitty are now making their way around the world. The back story is . . . . .
Machete Betty (the only person ever to get near Johnny Depp while holding a machete) had a couple kittens and brought one to the Kurth. Kitty fell asleep and well . . . . . I took a photo. Someone, somewhere grabbed my photo and somehow it ended up on the
ICanHasCheeseburger site and they added their wrinkle
BTW - for more photos of Public Enemies go to my
Public Enemies Photos site which I see now has had 32,000 viewers (far below this site with 625,000 and the worlds fascination with Columbus).
Just looking this morning - in the last 12 months besides Canada and the United Kingdom there have been 445 people from Germany reading this blog, 204 from Australia. 26 from the Ukraine (you can hire our council to run your country)!! California, Illinois and New Jersey are biggest viewers in the States. All 50 States and 151 Countries in the last 12 months (only one person from Lao People's Democratic Republic).
But I digress. Sorry - I had not looked at those numbers for a while, just talking out loud (sleep deprivation induced).
OK - I need to coffee up!
Cheers
Rod
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