‘Community News’ Category
Transparent Taco Bell Strategy
on Monday, March 26, 2012Next Steps:
As I see it, there are three realms of activity that are more or less of a concern to the various stakeholders.
1) Influencing the current planning application to produce the best possible outcome for the neighborhood.
2) Addressing the detrimental impacts to the neighborhood of a drive-through fast food restaurant. These include security, litter, traffic, aesthetics, rights of quiet enjoyment, local business considerations, food quality.
3) Overarching political, zoning and planning agendas including North Bethany and City By Choice.
Let’s take them in order.
Influencing the current planning application review to produce the best possible outcome for … Read the rest »
Taco Bell – A Breach of Trust
on Wednesday, March 21, 2012People are asking how it could be that Central Bethany Development could decide to build a Taco Bell in the Center and the community has nothing to say about it. Word is, it’s a done deal. Is it?
The County argues “a restaurant is a restaurant”. It makes no differentiation between an actual eating establishment and a fast food restaurant, and it has no additional provisions or restrictions for the restaurant that is really just a drive-thru. Reasonable people would argue that this is a flaw in the code and other reasonable people would disagree. However, the Bethany Planned Community … Read the rest »
Buy Local!
on Sunday, October 25, 2009Be In The World
what you want to
See In The World
Janet and I went to watch the movie “Food Inc” at Cinema 21. I went along to be a good sport. I am generally disinclined to attend revivals… preaching to the saved and all that. I got most of the way through the book “Omnivore’s Dilemma”, we are buying from local farms, etc. So I went along, braced for bombardment but not expecting to learn much new. In a way this is what occurred. But there was more. The producers of Food Inc did a masterful job of … Read the rest »
