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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I cannot believe this. And our only representative is the worthless Charles Allen. The same guy who has never done a thing but make the Hill a totally worse place to live. [/quote]

I don't have particularly strong feelings about Charles Allen but in my experience he is a nice guy who shows up and is very receptive to constituents' complaints. He is also on the right side of most local issues I care about. But I see a comment with almost this exact phrasing every time his name comes up here. Are you a political rival or something? It's really strange. [/quote]

I think by and large Charles Allen is a nice guy. But in this city, you unfortunately need a representative who will shamelessly lobby and fight for what's best your ward, or else the city bureaucracy will run roughshod over your neighborhood. Just look at what they're doing to Maury and the craziness with Watkins relocation. Or the state of 17th street. For comparison, [b]there is no way that Mary Cheh would stand for this craziness in ward 3[/b][/quote]

Sorry, Charlie.  Were you sleeping when they rezoned several schools away from Deal?

I like the proposal.
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Actually there was only one school zoned away from Deal (Eaton) and even that school previously had access to Hardy and Deal. Also, atvtge time Eaton was 30% IB so yes they were "collateral damage." The neighborhood (Crestwood and parts of 16th St Heights) suffered when they established high school pyramids. The only way that could have been prevented would have been to rezone those neighborhoods to Deal/Wilson feeder otherwise they would have needed to zone West and Powell INTO Deal. So yes, they suffered (not Cheh's area) because they had neighborhood rights and not elementary feeder rights. Oyster/Adams is also complicated.

I say that to say Chef didn't allow several of her schools to be rezoned, she kind of slowed Eaton to be collateral damage.[/quote]

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