Things got ugly at a recent "planning" meeting for the billion-dollar, seven-mile-long rail lines to nowhere.
“They want to make this neighborhood into something that it’s not,” was typical of the response by a couple of hundred residents to the "plans" tossed out by the Folks Who Know Best.
Clackamas County representatives asked community members how much they’d like to see commercial redevelopment versus a neighborhood that would encourage more town homes and row houses.
Obviously, the residents need a lot more "education", and that's really all that the County and Metro folks there were trying to do:
When some worried that more apartments, shops and parks would bring more crime, Metro Councilor Carlotta Collette took them aside to say, “There’s actually more safety the more eyes we can get on the streets.”
See there? Carly knows best. And actually, the residents aren't worried about shops and parks bringing in crime - they're rightfully worried about the impact of the Crime Train itself; they've seen what happened in Rockwood, and they're very aware as well of the increase in crime in the Clackamas Town Center area. Not without reason is loot rail referred to as the Crime Train.
The residents don't think they need loot rail, nor townhouses, nor row houses, nor condo-bunkers.
But Carly thinks that density is really important. That's apparently because she's rather dense, herself. We really need to lose folks like her; they're why we have the huge economic malaise here.
