Comments on: Historic Commission Fails Again

By: meglea

meglea — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 17:00:48 +0000

Dtrain, your comment has a Mayor’s office slant. I heard the other side of the story early last summer – that two highly qualified historic architects had applied for the HPC but were turned down. Soooo, perhaps in this case it’s not a question of lack of qualified applicants so much as it is a lack of “agenda qualified” applicants.

By: Dtrain

Dtrain — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 20:27:26 +0000

Mad as hell – you don’t know what you are talking about. Why would Mayor Bieter have spearheaded the historic districts if he didn’t feel they were important?

The sad truth is that so few people apply to participate on city boards and commissions. It is hard work and very time-consuming – for NO PAY. Maybe someone here should step up and volunteer?

Ed note–Here is the chance to get some applicants. We were told in June it would be “inappropriate” to discuss why someone was chosen someone else was passed over. Dtrain, you seem pretty wired into the Mayor’s office. Get Zuzel to give us requirements for any vacancies and we will be happy to post them.

By: Mad as Hell

Mad as Hell — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 19:09:39 +0000

The problem is that we have a mayor and city council that are so focused on INFILL that they could care less about ANYTHING historic!! They don’t want the seats filled because then the Commission would then be in a position to oppose their INFILL at all cost agenda!

In fact they feel that the “historical” things or areas in Boise are getting in the way of their GROW, INFILL, GROW, INFILL agenda.

The North End (and others) better wake up and get ready for an all out war to protect themselves. This mayor and council are slowly taking away any and all protections that have been in place for years.

Other historic areas of town are already being FORCED to accept the City’s TOO DENSE, pack it in at all cost agenda. The City has told us that the only way we can change the current agenda is to “Vote them out”. Too bad they get two more years of screwing it up before we even have a chance to hope to see a change.