OK, I’m trying to figure exactly what necessitates a special meeting of the Greensboro City Council on the proposed Lindbrook downtown development, considering the fact “(s)everal council members said Monday that they support” Lindbrook’s $100,000 incentives request.
The meeting has to be about downtown’s parking problems, and I agree with others who’ve noted that downtown parking has been a problem for quite sometime now. That they’re calling a —duh-duh-duh! — special meeting to put a Band-Aid on a gunshot wound makes you wonder, as if we haven’t done enough wondering the City Council lately.
Of course, they could be meeting to take up an idea from a citizen that caught the attention of council member Sandra Anderson Groat —- a trolley!
Meanwhile, there appears to be some clarity on the protest petition vote. That said, you still have to believe that protest petitions are dependent upon a compromise being worked out between TREBIC, the League of Women Voters and the Neighborhood Congress, which I’ve said is a dim prospect. Again, how will development-friendly council members react if a compromise cannot be worked out?
I find it hard to believe that Robbie Perkins would so willingly vote for protest petitions knowing the very real possibility — as it supposedly stands now —- that the real estate community won’t get anything out of it.
