New urbanist blogger David Wharton tackles Greensboro’s Downtown Design Manual and the Property Owners Review Team, which has been granted a gate-keeping role in what passes for a regulatory process:
“Imagine how it will make Greensboro look to some experienced outside developers. In what other town must they justify their projects to a board whose voting members must be chosen on the basis of a property qualification, but who need not have any professional expertise or demonstrated success? They will think they have arrived in a jerkwater town where everything is run by the local good ole boy network.”
The public comment period remains open through Thursday. Comments can be e-mailed to Mike Kirkman at Michael.kirkman@greensboro-nc.gov.
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