Growing homeless camps contrast with West Coast tech wealth

Re:Growing homeless camps contrast with West Coast tech wealth by Top19 on Monday November 06, 2017 @09:25PM (#15640626)

Was at a city council meeting where I live for a developer to build 380 apartments. It was a very nice deal, the apartments were mid-range in costs, they were going to include a park, and there was going to be shopping on the 1st floor. It would replace a 40 year old legacy strip-shopping mall.

Jesus Christ the people of Austin, Texas fought this thing like it was a toxic waste dump for disposed of Ebola Virus experiments. Also the city council meeting was just dominated by OLD PEOPLE, I truly never had any idea how much politics was generational until that night.

Ultimately the city council isn’t stupid and voted to allow the developer to rezone, so I guess it worked out, but still such a haunting image of selfishness.

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Re:Growing homeless camps contrast with West Coast tech wealth by hkmurakami on Tuesday November 07, 2017 @01:31AM (#15641432)

I've been an observer an impacted neighboring resident for a development in my neighborhood (fwiw I'm pragmatic about these things and have a cooperative relationship with the developer).

Can attest that the council's and committees are 95% old people. And tbh the workload burden to review a development proposal is pretty heavy, and you'd basically have to be semi retired to want to do this.

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