Today, the Editorial LiveJournalists came out against the sale of a block of Bolsover street to a developer:
In the coming days City Council members should consider the following arguments, many voiced by nearby residents, against the sale….
They go on to list several arguments, but omit two big reasons that have come up over and over in the local print coverage of the issue: The assumptions behind two appraisals that seem to undervalue the land in question, and the lack of transparency in the process. We noted both in this earlier post.
Maybe the Editorial LiveJournalists don’t read the Examiner newspapers. Or the neighborhood section of their own newspaper.
It’s not at all clear (from this editorial or anything else that’s been printed) that the proposed sale of Bolsover is a “bad thing.” However, if the sale is deemed a good idea by city leaders, we’d like those leaders to be at least as diligent in getting full value for city property as Mayor White was when he squeezed the caretakers of retarded children for millions of dollars by threatening to void their valid lease.
