A follow up to Capitol Heights

Of course the majority of the council voted to deny their own laws and push through the amendment to the Planned Development District pretending it wasn't an amendment at all. Not all of them did, but enough for change to pass.

I will say I admire the developer's ability to tolerate risk in investment. I surely wouldn't be throwing hundreds of thousands of dollars at a twice-failed development followed by tens of thousands in planning and drawings only to find out the day his final plan passes the council someone has asked a judge to provide an injunction for the building permit. You know. Until two years pass and the courts figure out if the council overstepped their boundaries on this one. After all, why would anyone lawyer up now? There's more than a 50% chance the buildings will never happen.

My final conciliation is that perhaps I did understand correctly in that first conversation and the third building will never be built.

I have to wonder, though, why a community as well educated and articulate as Brookfield wouldn't give a rat's ass about the way their local government functions. For all the feigned conservative interest in maintaining the status quo around here, little is done to protect it.

C'est la vie.

Have a happy week. I'm going to be writing some more and posting to several of the Patch blogs in the future. So much has been going on, and we'll be knee deep into the 2014 mid-term elections before you know it. People love to scream about politics they can't really influence. 

I still can't help but think most folks have it completely backwards.