City holds up project to save a tree; developer, of course, sues city.
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Some People Never Learn
By SwirlyGrrl
Thu, 02/21/2008 - 11:13am
Why am I not surprised that I read in the link the name of a complete fool who is so adverse to citizen participation that he attempted a hostile take over of a cohousing group?
I suspect that if that guy was not involved, they'd have had this thing built by now.
Say more please?
By Ron Newman
Thu, 02/21/2008 - 11:16am
Who is the person who tried to take over what cohousing project where?
Among Dr. Butt's longstanding concerns is that the proposed development comes right to his property line, and cannot be built without construction workers digging on his property.
More ...
By SwirlyGrrl
Thu, 02/21/2008 - 11:25am
The cohousing project now at the far end of the linear park had some rather unpleasant dealings with Mr. Daigle. He came in to the group by way of The Cohousing Center, took on the work with a certain understanding of the group's rules and processes, and then insisted that the group hand him absolute decision power and do so by a majority vote. You can only imagine how well that went over with a consensus based group! That led to some belief that he planned to use the group's seed money to build and then sell units out from under the group at market rate.
The group dumped him and went with another architect/developer, which didn't exactly breeze past the North Cambridge Stagnation Committee's stupidifying demands that only two single family homes be built on the site, but made it through the process much more quickly than Daigle et al were moving.
Cut the damn tree down and
By Anonymous
Thu, 02/21/2008 - 11:52am
Cut the damn tree down and build the guy a boat with him, and send him to Jersey!
Fools!
Harvard Lampoon
By adamg
Thu, 02/21/2008 - 11:56am
Would probably take care of things, except I doubt its members know where Somerville is.
Fine by me ...
By John K
Thu, 02/21/2008 - 3:54pm
I lived on Windom Street for five years, until around 2002. I saw no problem with developing that land then, and I don't see any problem, now.
Fourteen units? Sounds reasonable.
My landlords, however, were against the project, I think. "Where will they park???" was pretty much their one and only complaint, repeated over and over and over and over again.
May be fine if redesigned
By Ron Newman
Thu, 02/21/2008 - 3:58pm
by a developer who wants to work with the neighbors instead of running roughshod over them. This developer wants to build right to the property line, and the owner of the property on the other side of that line says it can't be built without digging on his own property. It's reasonable for him not to want that.