If you are confusing an initiative petition to repeal a state law with mindless and rampant discussion destruction - perhaps you are not paying sufficient attention.
Nonetheless, let me answer you.
You presume that Mosaic Commons is an unalloyed good. Let us pretend so: in which case, how do you know that 40B is the ONLY mechanism that would have permitted it? Can you list at least one reason why violation of local zoning might be a bad thing?
Rife with fraud, means just that. Have you read the IG report? (I skimmed it.) It wouldn't be at all hard to look and see how many towns have had to sue developers in order to gain the money owed them: there are many such cases. You may be confusing criminal with civil prosecution - I'm talking only civil here.
Show me that math? OK. I'll put that in a second reply. It's from a note posted to the Arlington town public list, by two friends of mine. Both of them are people I met in the SCA some 25 years ago. The husband was the best man at my first wedding, and has a Ph.D. in mathematics. (All of this by way of saying: I vouch for their honesty, and Harvard vouches for his math skills).
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Date: 2010-11-02 02:27 pm (UTC)discussiondestruction - perhaps you are not paying sufficient attention.Nonetheless, let me answer you.
You presume that Mosaic Commons is an unalloyed good. Let us pretend so: in which case, how do you know that 40B is the ONLY mechanism that would have permitted it? Can you list at least one reason why violation of local zoning might be a bad thing?
Rife with fraud, means just that. Have you read the IG report? (I skimmed it.) It wouldn't be at all hard to look and see how many towns have had to sue developers in order to gain the money owed them: there are many such cases. You may be confusing criminal with civil prosecution - I'm talking only civil here.
Show me that math? OK. I'll put that in a second reply. It's from a note posted to the Arlington town public list, by two friends of mine. Both of them are people I met in the SCA some 25 years ago. The husband was the best man at my first wedding, and has a Ph.D. in mathematics. (All of this by way of saying: I vouch for their honesty, and Harvard vouches for his math skills).