07-26-2008, 08:40 AM
quote:One thing that is not characteristic of legislation in general (at any level of government) is that it is created by a truly grass roots effort. While I share your distrust of legislation in general, as it is so often driven by focused special or ideological interests, the PCDP was truly bottom-up and not top-down. It may be rough. It will undoubtedly need to be amended. But we need a baseline by which to judge the amendments. In many reports already it has been alluded repeatedly that special and ideological interests are some of the major sources of these many amendments. Already the grass roots effort of several years is being undermined by the very interests that a community process is designed to minimize. I am strongly in favor of immediately passing the PCDP as the ordinance it was promised to be as a baseline for the future refinement, and hopefully blossoming, of an ongoing community focus.
no legislation is better than bad or incomplete legislation
quote:Trashing the lowest rungs of an organization, corporate or government, for making a wage is gratuitous and inappropriate. Do you trash the grocery check-out person because of the price of milk? If the county clerk messes up the fees you are supposed to pay, OK, have at them. But if your problem is the existence of the fees, you need to direct your ire at the council persons and legislators that enacted the requirements for the fees.
other non-sense that serves no one except the county clerk who's making a wage doing it
quote:There were at least on the order of a hundred people involved in the PCDP, probably more. It was a truly community effort. Trashing the PCDP based on your perceptions of a "few" people is really pointless.
As well, having met a few of of the "draftees" responsible for the plan, I'm even concerned that their heart is not really in the right place