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Originally Posted by City Wide
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If your intent is to get all those different, and often at cross purposes, groups to come to agreement, then nothing would ever get built!
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I don't know, maybe and it's not really worthwhile to explore a fantasy. But I wish something could be done to consolidate all these various commissions and mandatory meetings, some have teeth, some don't. It's confusing, it's time consuming, expensive, and each group is working in a silo, not concerned about the greater good but focused on narrow mandates. No one is saying, yea, maybe such and such project could be built with better materials and some immediate neighbors might be inconvenienced but if it adds revenue, vibrancy, and jobs, isn't that a good thing and doesn't that trump all the other, more trivial concerns? I just think a more holistic and streamlined approach is needed. And also, none of this forums have a place for city officials to explain to NIMBYs how their demand to reduce the number of units/floors in a certain project impacts the city's coffers both in the short term (RE transfer fees) and the long term (RE taxes after the abatement).