Wednesday, January 27, 2021

Real Estate developers are clearly exploiting current lack of public transparency/engagement regarding development in #HollywoodFL during #COVID19 pandemic. Why's the city doing nothing to compensate? Residents are frustrated w/lack of participation.

Real Estate developers are clearly exploiting current lack of public transparency/engagement regarding development in #HollywoodFL during #COVID19 pandemic. 
Why's the city doing nothing to compensate? Residents are frustrated w/lack of participation.

I'll have much more to say about this subject in the coming days here on my blog, but for now I have two simple questions that I and many other concerned Hollywood residents believe are well worth asking and pondering: 

a.) Why is the current Hollywood City Commission -especially the two newly-elected members, Linda Hill Anderson and Adam Gruber- ignoring both the "optics" and the real life public policy dimensions of this situation, and NOT offering a reasonable solution for the Planning & Development meetings, as long as the city's less-than-dynamic pandemic rules prevent full in-person public participation by the neighborhood and the larger community?

b.) How come the City of Hollywood has the resources to arrange things so that the Hollywood Sustainability Advisory Committee, a committee that many if not most of you may not have even known existed, can have Virtual meetings that allows for citizen engagement, as they are on Thursday, yet for some reason, they can not do that for the much-more important Planning & Development Board?  

In case you did not know, the Planning & Development Board is one of the six citizen advisory Boards and Committees in Hollywood that REQUIRES appointees to file both a yearly Financial Disclosure Form as well as quarterly Gift Disclosure Form, while the Hollywood Sustainability Advisory Committee is... not.

That distinction shows what the city itself believes are the most important boards, no?

https://www.hollywoodfl.org/155/Boards-Committees

 

Color me less-than-impressed with how the city and its elected leaders have handled this matter thus far, and less-than-impressed that it may well be DAYS before most of the public in Hollywood ever finds out what really happened Tuesday night at Hollywood City Hall.

Clearly, I am not the only one who feels that way right now.


My tweet from Tuesday afternoon: https://twitter.com/hbbtruth/status/1354197430493978624



Below, my post to Nextdoor Hollywood from Monday at https://nextdoor.com/news_feed/?post=174916686&init_source=search



Dave

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