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Sounds like this is a market rate building, so yeah, a problem given that landlords can upgrade and raise rents by right, so denser development is the only way to get committed AH units.  If the landlord violated code that is up to staff to address, I don't know wha t happened with your complaint.

but of course my point was merely that the debate (which has been vigorous on AH) might actually have taken up some of their time, along with many other issues.

It does seem we are becoming polarized and its harder and harder to engage with each other. [b]I am trying to respond in good faith however. [/b]  [/quote]

You say you are responding in good faith yet have been incredibly dismissive of just how bad this is or how badly people feel towards the City.

City allows landlords to allow buildings to fall into disrepair while tenants are still there paying rent because the landlord wants to redevelop?  Well yea, that happens is your response.  Do you understand how dismissive that is and how that leads directly into "yep, city sure as shootin doesn't care about AH"?

And your response "I mean I know that to you the question of the southern entrance to the metro station is huge" - again, so unbelievably dismissive about a situation that is a BIG FREAKIN DEAL to people.  I don't even LIVE in PY and I'm impacted by this and upset about it.  And a new metro station IS a huge deal for the City of Alexandria.  But your responding by acting like people are nuts for thinking the council, mayor, and vice mayor shirked their duty by not doing anything to get citizens informed about the changes.

Look, you obviously are pro VM.  Maybe you know him personally and know him to be a good man.  But he, along with the rest of the people involved, massively messed up here.  And pretending they didn't isn't doing him any good.  This is a moment for a come to god, We Messed Up And We're Sorry response, not "why are you so mad, bruh?"[/quote]

Excuse me. I think the City needs to enfore code, of course. If a building owner is violating code and the City is ignoring it that is a big deal, but I think I would have heard about. If the landlord is not in violation than there probably IS nothing the City can do about it. Unethical of the landlord, but I am not here to judge (unnamed) landlords. rather to discuss the upcoming election.

And, I think the change to PY is unfortunate, [b]but AFAICT not the City's fault.  And I am not sure communicating that in 2018 instead of June 2017 IS a big deal.[/b]  Though I also am far more optimistic about how the station will work for south PY than others are. [/quote]

It's the city's fault.  And widely communicating it right away (which the city could have done) would have prevented any claim that the city committed a fraud.  
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The change is the City's fault?  How?  The bids came in too high, and there was nothing else they could cut without bigger consequences.  Or are we back to not communicating is the City's fault. See the conflation of different things - anger at the substance, the claims about a "coverup" and the conflation of errors by City staff with with dishonesty by CMs' is one of the reasons I am so put off by the angry people here. It seems of a piece with the kind of free association anger that charecterizes so many vocal people in the City. [/quote]

The city induced thousands of people to rely on that south entrance.  When the city chose to hush up (and it was the city's choice, not a confidentiality requirement), the city's behavior was just plain dirty.  Whether that decision was the council's or the city manager's or the deputy's or whomever doesn't;t matter.  If it was a mistake, there was a year to fix it, and no one even checked.  The decision was the city's.  Everything deeper than that is just internal finger-pointing.

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