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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ah yes. Palisades. Well, if they hadn't considered their neighborhood as too good for luxury condos, they would now have a brand new walkable grocery store instead of an ugly office building. Also, "no bike lane on MacArthur! We need it for the cars!" and "keep the gravel on the trails! We don't want anyone using them! They get in the way of the view out of a few of our expensive houses!" "Yes, sure, cancel those bus lines! They bring poor people!"
Be better, rich people, be better.[/quote]

The other funny example was what happened with the renovation of the Palisades Rec Center. The original proposal included a swimming pool and another nice amenities. True to form, members of the community fought that tooth and nail because attractive amenities might attract people outside the neighborhood (“parking” being the operative euphemism deployed to disguise more pernicious sentiments). And also true to form, the city caved to the wishes of the moneyed assholes, resulting in a truly ridiculous renovation that - I shit you not - has as it’s centerpiece half a basketball court.[/quote]
Oh wow, a swimming pool would have been so much better than the spray feature it got! That half-basketball court might have the most gorgeous view of all DPR rec centers. If that had been the view from the pool, it would have been featured in magazines, and millennials would have taken it over with swim teams and lane reservations.

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The outsider bitterness of the have-lesses is palpable here.  [/quote]
LOL, yes, please go on and palpate my bitterness over your have-more abuse of power over city decisions. 
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