[CPEO-BIF] Traverse City, Michigan

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Editorial: TC brownfield authority would be accountable

Traverse City Record-Eagle (MI)
December 16, 2007

There has hardly been a more noxious example of aggravation without 
representation than Traverse City's brownfield/parking deck debacle of 
the past year. The obvious wishes of city residents were ignored and 
even ridiculed by unelected members of a county committee, and the 
sitting city commission didn't lift a finger.

The easiest and best way to prevent a repeat performance -- and ensure 
that residents can make themselves heard -- is for the city to simply 
create its own brownfield authority.

Yes, that's another layer of bureaucracy, another round of appointments. 
It's a pain. But it's time for the city to get control of the brownfield 
process from the ground up so elected officials accountable to city 
voters make critical development decisions.



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For the entire editorial, see
http://www.record-eagle.com/opinion/local_story_350100022.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org



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