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Christopher
Brennan e-mail to Johnny Winton
From:Christopher
Brennan
Sent: Saturday, April 23, 2005 9:32 PM
To: jwinton@ci.miami.fl.us;
jlallen@ci.miami.fl.us;
mannydiaz@ci.miami.fl.us;
Subject: A Not At Home Depot
Mr.
Winton:
I have a home in Carmel, California,
London's West End, and a small flat in
Coconut Grove. I spend about 60
percent of my time here. 'The
Grove' is an attractive community, with
increasing property values. It can
indeed be improved. Greatly.
Some sections remain -- commercially
ugly.
But to recommend, to even consider some
kind of 'trend setting,' modified Home
Depot on one of it's busiest streets --
by the way, with a school, but no posted
speed limits -- is incomprehensible. In
Carmel, in residential London, even such
an idea would be met with outrage.
To blandly accept that most motorized
traffic 'could' be routed on your 'Dixie
Highway,' to this proposed Home Depot is
equally astonishing.
Route 1 is a little Santa Monica
Boulevard, and it's getting worse. Will
Home Depot conduct accurate -- accurate
-- traffic counts on Rt. 1, should the
chain settle here? No. Will
Home Depot agree to build an equal space
underground parking lot? No. Will Home
Depot supply, maintain and man several
garbage trucks to collect the added
street litter the center would generate?
No. The list goes on, and you know
the litany.
I'm troubled by your position on the
Home Depot issue. You are in the
New Age of Representation. The
majority enjoy rights, and the majority
will not only express them, but today
act upon them. You are out-of-step
with your majority, and the old game of
compromise for gain -- from Wall Street
to City Hall -- is long ago transparent.
Your best recourse is now to admit that
you are wrong, that you have not only
heard the mass opinion, but you have
listen to it, as well, and reversed
course.
Regards,
Christopher Brennan
A
form of this letter was latter published
in The Miami Herald's Soapbox,
Neighbors, Sunday, May 1, 2005.
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