Comments on: Elect Elaine http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2007/07/26/elect-elaine/ If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen. — Samuel Adams Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:18:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Chasing the Bread Truck http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2007/07/26/elect-elaine/comment-page-1/#comment-10824 Chasing the Bread Truck Sat, 11 Aug 2007 00:20:07 +0000 http://www.scrutinyhooligans.us/?p=3697#comment-10824 Hi David -- Nothing's wrong with balconies. The issue is this ... the city sells a public, taxpayer asset to a developer for next to nothing. (Yet again ... re: Pack Park) The developer is tickled because instead of using their own property to build an amenity for their buyers, they can build out over the street and don't have to use up any of the square-footage of their building. If they are going to have the privilege of building here, why shouldn't they pay a fair value to the tax payers for air rights? It's all gung ho, free market, for the developers until they someone questions the subsidies they're getting. Would you get a subsidy from the city if you wanted to build a balcony over the street? I don't know, but would be interesting to find out. For more info, go to: http://www.mountainx.com/news/2007/071107buzz1/ Hi David –

Nothing’s wrong with balconies. The issue is this … the city sells a public, taxpayer asset to a developer for next to nothing. (Yet again … re: Pack Park)

The developer is tickled because instead of using their own property to build an amenity for their buyers, they can build out over the street and don’t have to use up any of the square-footage of their building.

If they are going to have the privilege of building here, why shouldn’t they pay a fair value to the tax payers for air rights? It’s all gung ho, free market, for the developers until they someone questions the subsidies they’re getting. Would you get a subsidy from the city if you wanted to build a balcony over the street? I don’t know, but would be interesting to find out.

For more info, go to:

http://www.mountainx.com/news/2007/071107buzz1/

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]]> By: Chasing the Bread Truck http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2007/07/26/elect-elaine/comment-page-1/#comment-10795 Chasing the Bread Truck Fri, 10 Aug 2007 16:17:58 +0000 http://www.scrutinyhooligans.us/?p=3697#comment-10795 Hi David -- Nothing's wrong with balconies. The issue is this ... the city sells a public, taxpayer asset to a developer for next to nothing. (Yet again ... re: Pack Park) The developer is tickled because instead of using their own property to build an amenity for their buyers, they can build out over the street and don't have to use up any of the square-footage of their building. If they are going to have the privilege of building here, why shouldn't they pay a fair value to the tax payers for air rights? It's all gung ho, free market, for the developers until they someone questions the subsidies they're getting. Would you get a subsidy from the city if you wanted to build a balcony over the street? I don't know, but would be interesting to find out. For more info, go to: http://www.mountainx.com/news/2007/071107buzz1/ Hi David –

Nothing’s wrong with balconies. The issue is this … the city sells a public, taxpayer asset to a developer for next to nothing. (Yet again … re: Pack Park)

The developer is tickled because instead of using their own property to build an amenity for their buyers, they can build out over the street and don’t have to use up any of the square-footage of their building.

If they are going to have the privilege of building here, why shouldn’t they pay a fair value to the tax payers for air rights? It’s all gung ho, free market, for the developers until they someone questions the subsidies they’re getting. Would you get a subsidy from the city if you wanted to build a balcony over the street? I don’t know, but would be interesting to find out.

For more info, go to:

http://www.mountainx.com/news/2007/071107buzz1/

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]]> By: David Roat http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2007/07/26/elect-elaine/comment-page-1/#comment-10293 David Roat Sat, 28 Jul 2007 23:30:34 +0000 http://www.scrutinyhooligans.us/?p=3697#comment-10293 somebody explain to me what is wrong with balconies? somebody explain to me what is wrong with balconies?

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]]> By: Ashevillein http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2007/07/26/elect-elaine/comment-page-1/#comment-10256 Ashevillein Fri, 27 Jul 2007 14:53:16 +0000 http://www.scrutinyhooligans.us/?p=3697#comment-10256 Yeah, I like what I see for once. Yeah, I like what I see for once.

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]]> By: Drama Queen http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2007/07/26/elect-elaine/comment-page-1/#comment-10253 Drama Queen Fri, 27 Jul 2007 02:35:58 +0000 http://www.scrutinyhooligans.us/?p=3697#comment-10253 Wooo hooo! You go, Elaine. Wooo hooo! You go, Elaine.

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]]> By: Tim Peck http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2007/07/26/elect-elaine/comment-page-1/#comment-10252 Tim Peck Thu, 26 Jul 2007 23:31:47 +0000 http://www.scrutinyhooligans.us/?p=3697#comment-10252 I'm working on getting Elaine on URTV. Bumper stickers are available from Jake Quinn. I’m working on getting Elaine on URTV.

Bumper stickers are available from Jake Quinn.

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