City Hall’s Dismissive Disregard

 Notwithstanding the residents’ constructive concerns, City Hall engages in a practice best described as “residential avoidance,” and proceeds with its designs ignoring the people’s voice.

This official “dismissive disregard” of residents has become all too commonplace:

Roxbury Park

City Hall has proposed a $37.9 million dollar massive re-development expansion in Roxbury Park. City Hall has conducted several meetings during which residents have strenuously objected to the massive size of the proposed project.

To be sure, residents favor a renovation of the parks existing structures and an overall refurbishing at Roxbury. During the public meetings, the residents informed the City Hall spokesman that they wished to see a plan that would reflect the desirable renovation at substantial cost savings contrasted to the City Hall plan.

The City Hall spokesman stated, in substance, that City Hall specifically directed “not” to provide the residents with such a state-of-the-art upgrade of the existing structures.

In spite of overwhelming residential opposition to the City’s massive $37.9 million mega-redevelopment expansion, and denying the residents an opportunity to see a scaled down, more cost effective renovation/design, City Hall in all its hubris plans to proceed willy nilly.

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