{"id":112,"date":"2008-11-23T17:25:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-23T17:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terragrafix.com\/blog\/?p=112"},"modified":"2008-11-23T17:25:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-23T17:25:00","slug":"comments-from-our-readers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thesecretnewsonline.com\/?p=112","title":{"rendered":"Comments From Our Readers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><br \/>Comment re: <\/span><span style=\"font-style: italic;font-size:130%;\" >Emeryville City Council to Developers: The Laws We Make, We&#8217;ll Break for You<\/span><span style=\"font-size:130%;\">:<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:130%;\">This seems to be a ongoing theme from the city council. It seems John Fricke is the only one not in the back pocket of developers. Why can&#8217;t the other council members stand up and represent the people who actually elected them? They are carving the city&#8217;s history up into little pieces and serving it on a silver platter to whichever developer comes along, ignoring critical quality of life concerns which the municipal code was created to protect. Emeryville has a long history of corruption and it seems to be continuing on unabated.<\/p>\n<p>I, for one, have had enough. When are the people of Emeryville going to stand up and throw out those elected officials who care more about helping developers increase their profit margin than the quality of life for people who actually live here? I am sick and tired of the constant pandering that goes on from the majority of the city council to developers who are only interested in making money while Emeryville residents suffer.<\/p>\n<p>We need to recall those council members who betrayed our trust.<\/p>\n<p>We need a municipal code that is strong enough not to be simply swept aside whenever a developer comes around and sheds a tear.<\/p>\n<p>We need to make ourselves heard by complaining to the media and marching in the streets to embarrass those rascals into stopping their attacks on our quality of life.<\/p>\n<p>If you all want to organize a demonstration, count me in.<\/p>\n<p>If anyone wants to read more about the two projects, here are the links:<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:130%;\">Project at 39th and Adeline:<br \/>http:\/\/www.oaklandnet.com\/government\/ceda\/revised\/planningzoning\/MajorProjectsSection\/39th-and-AdelineEIR.html<\/p>\n<p>Papermill Project:<br \/>http:\/\/www.ci.emeryville.ca.us\/planning\/majorprojects.html<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><br \/>Doug Bright<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0;float:none;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thesecretnewsonline.com%2F%3Fp%3D112\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"true\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comment re: Emeryville City Council to Developers: The Laws We Make, We&#8217;ll Break for You: This seems to be a ongoing theme from the city council. It seems John Fricke is the only one not in the back pocket of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesecretnewsonline.com\/?p=112\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thesecretnewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thesecretnewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thesecretnewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thesecretnewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thesecretnewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thesecretnewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thesecretnewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thesecretnewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thesecretnewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}