step with care and we'll get there.

There are a lot of assumptions as far as I am concerned in stating that the Obama Foundation is only looking to make improvements in the neighborhood, to make the surrounding area a more vibrant and economically healthy place, to make the world a better place. 

One doesn't make the world, or the neighborhood, a better place by stepping over the reasonable objections of a good amount of residents and concerned citizens. One doesn't act with these goals when they disregard perfectly reasonable alternatives to their preferred location, and when they come up with proposals and designs that are justifiably out of step with original designs and concepts for the area in question. 

It's not a question of hatred for the Obama Foundation so much as it is what kind of regard and respect and common sense the folks at the Foundation have, or are displaying toward the history of the neighborhood, to the ongoing uses of the area and its facilities, and to the aesthetic, ecological, and traffic infrastructure elements for the Hyde Park, South Shore, and Woodlawn neighborhoods. The folks here who are objecting to these extreme proposals are people who have regard and respect for things and people, and who have common sense. At this juncture, those values seem to be rather diminished presently over there at the Foundation and at City Hall. 

Rudy Gartner

 

 

thanks rudy, i wanted to feature some of the whacked perspectives on the land grab proposal, but now i'm starting to glean the sane voices for preserving the park and the neighborhood, and that sound you hear in your heart is a big sigh of relief. ha, at first i wrote a bug sigh of relief, ha ha, imagine a bug sighing with relief, it would be a very cute little sigh, but for a bug it would be as big as mine. it's good to get unexpected perspective along with editing oneself.