• eksb@programming.dev
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    5 days ago

    Story time. I used to have a house adjacent to a school. The city threatened to use eminent domain to take and tear down several houses on the block to add more parking for the school. One block away from a huge parking lot that always had at least 10 times as many open spaces as they were intending to build. At the first public meeting, the first question was “Why can’t people just park across the street?”, at which point they admitted that nobody involved ever came to the school in person, or bothered to zoom out on a map, and they didn’t know about it. The plan was promptly cancelled.

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      5 days ago

      I’m surprised they’re so reasonable. They want to pave huge portions of my local park despite the presence of 3 parking lots already to make sure park visitors never have to walk from the parking lot to any amenity. It must be immediately adjacent.

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      they admitted that nobody involved ever came to the school in person

      Not the main point, but wtf? How is the principal of the school not involved in this sort of decisionmaking?