
{"id":15473,"date":"2011-01-27T10:13:47","date_gmt":"2011-01-27T15:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=15473"},"modified":"2011-01-27T10:13:47","modified_gmt":"2011-01-27T15:13:47","slug":"letter-visioning-glen-lennox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2011\/01\/27\/letter-visioning-glen-lennox\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter: Visioning Glen Lennox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I attended the Glen Lennox Visioning Workshop this past weekend. We had a lively, creative evening imagining a future Glen Lennox apartment property redevelopment.\u00c2\u00a0It was a great opportunity for the public to participate in the redesign process and we came up with a variety of good ideas to accommodate progress. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m still puzzling about a few things though. <\/p>\n<p>For example, in all of our redesign scenarios, we basically pushed the development beast to the edges of our neighborhood by degrees.\u00c2\u00a0Overall, I think we just held our noses while eating our peas and some of us put a better face on it. And we did little to discuss changes and development controls on the wider area of our neighborhood. I also can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t seem to shake the idea that the workshop was a kind of puppet theatre and that our participation implies a tacit approval for the next proposed development plan, assuming it incorporates some of the ideas. I also wonder if the visioning workshop co-opted the original effort of crafting our NCD.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But maybe the Glen Lennox redevelopment can be a catalyst for both change and stability in our neighborhood. Maybe we can all get what we want by staying in the discussion and cooperating. Mostly, I am hopeful that our NCD steering committee will keep their eyes on the prize \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 the place all of us like to call home.<\/p>\n<p>Tom Carson<br \/>\n<em>Chapel Hill<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I attended the Glen Lennox Visioning Workshop this past weekend. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15473"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15581,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15473\/revisions\/15581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}