As many PRU readers may remember, a year ago the City Council voted in favor of giving Norwood's Park Ridge 2004 LLC a density variance for 8 additional condo units; bringing the total number of residential units to be built on the site of Executive Office Plaza to 168. Condominium projects of this type are referred to as "planned unit developments", or PUDs.
We covered the matter at length in a dozen posts beginning here. And as we told PRU readers here, the variance sought for the density was based largely on the inclusion of 50 units -- less than 1/3 of the development -- for "senior housing."
So in last week's edition of the Herald-Advocate an article headline caught our attention:
Senior housing project? What Senior housing project? A 168 unit development that is less than fully 1/3 for senior housing is a "senior housing project?" The local rag has got to be kidding!
Then the PRU Crew remembered the magic of the local press; help the politicians hang their hat on whatever smoke and mirrors spin will make them "look their best", as City Cluck Betty Henneman has been known to phrase it.
Just more of the same.
November 3, 2008
PRESSto Chango!
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3 comments:
This should be no suprise.
Look at what the paper has done
to force your vote in covering
"their" candidates.
Jeez, has anybody heard from Norwood's chief senior housing stooge, Herb Zuegel? Are he and his fellow senior's going to have to move out of town if they have to wait a few more years to get that "senior housing" they say is so desperately needed?
It would have been more accurate to say that the senior housing portion of the Norwood development is set to begin construction in 2010. Construction of the other portion of the development (the too-dense condominiums) is not set to begin until 2012. I encourage residents who are concerned about traffic, pedestrian safety and the existing trees at Exec Plaza to attend the Planning and Zoning meeting in November (I think November 10th). Norwood is seeking approval of its Stage 2 plan for the development.
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