Nonetheless, CM Matthews intends to move the proposal to council public hearing in March, where it will likely incur the unrelenting backlash of large numbers of civic leaders who consistently turn out whenever it appears on an agenda. Even a local blogger supportive of untrammeled growth questions the wisdom of Matthews' move:
The timing is curious, the subject is still slightly toxic and if the Councilman and May family are not careful, the backlash could be significant. Why? Simple, the Metro Council has just approved the financing package to build a brand new downtown convention center at a cost of $650 million and quite a few citizens are still mystified by this expenditure. Many still believe that taxpayers will be left ultimately holding the bag for a significant portion of the project’s construction and operating costs. Skepticism runs rampant and to be honest, the project’s organizers did not help themselves by allowing several publically embarrassing mistakes to be made during the planning process.We do not know what cards CM Matthews has up his sleeve. However, if things remain as they were 8 months ago, I don't see how the MTC proposal can come out of a public hearing unscathed enough to give it a realistic shot. However, I don't put anything past this council.
I don't see the logic in voting for the Convention Center and voting against Maytown
ReplyDeleteUm ... Hey Mike ... I think I've written that May Town wasn't dead. And as I wrote recently, some folks who opposed it the first go around, or were perhaps highly skeptical, may be changing their tune now that the convention center is moving forward. Also, you need to read more closely, Hollin may have ended his political career before it began. That's "may" not "will." Link my whole story not the excerpt that was used, by the wa, for full perspective.
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