Twitter account of tonight's Cleveland Park community meeting on building a garbage transfer station

I'm sure that Jamie Hollin is going to follow up with a thorough, reflective and engaging report of the proceedings of tonight's community meeting on a proposed solid waste transfer facility for Cleveland Park at his blog, but here is a quick-and-dirty summary based on his blow-by-blow Twitter stream with a couple of observations tweeted by Matt Pulle, who was also at the meeting:

• It was the largest turnout for a Cleveland Park Neighborhood Association meeting in memory.
• A meeting that should have been 30 minutes dragged on for 2 hours.
• The meeting dragged on for 2 hours because the community was preached at by meeting leaders.
• Among other things, meeting leaders preached to neighborhood leaders on how to be engaged in the community.
• Meeting attendees were admonished to keep their questions to 1 minute.
• 30 minutes into the meeting, the audience was still not told what the purpose of the meeting was.
• People were ready to vote on the neighborhood garbage station an hour into the meeting.
• Garbage station owners said they are "small operation" even though they operate in 30 states.
• Planned building will be 100,000 square feet which equates to tons of garbage trucked through Cleveland Park.
• Scare tactics were used (that is, threats of what could go in place of a garbage station).
• Pro-garbage-station speaker promised there would not be garbage odor problems in Cleveland Park.
• Pro-garbage-station speaker compared storing tons of garbage in Cleveland Park to a household storing a rubbish bin under the sink.
• No one in the audience showed public support for the project when vote was taken.
• According to Matt: 99% attending were against a trash station in Cleveland Park.
• CM Scott Davis says he will file the bill in support of a neighborhood garbage transfer station tomorrow (Friday), which puts in on track for a June 19 council meeting.
• CM Davis seemed elusive, but may be part of the 1% supporting a trash station in Cleveland Park.

I would say never underestimate the power of a council member to leverage "councilmanic courtesy" to pass legislation over the protests of a majority of constituents. Metro Council is tight like that. This sounds like a potential mess for Cleveland Park.