| 08/02/2016 5:21 pm |
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 OFFLINE | The dilapidated property around town is plenty of evidence of village planning gone wrong - we don't need any more big ideas from the board. In case anybody needs a reminder of past big ideas (some which have been taxpayer funded by millions) that have failed, here are just a few:
How about Tinley Park's gross underestimation ($1 million short!) on the cost of a retention pond, and then their failure to follow through on the agreement made with Orland Hills? OR how about Tinley Park investing taxpayer dollars into a PRIVATE business, which is not as successful as anticipated... or as "sold" to taxpayers. Here's even more on that private business deal, which includes a link to the contract.
Furthermore, even though this "project" somehow passed approval in the Village, check out this large, gaudy sign the Village Park District spent $25,000 taxpayer dollars on for a DOG PARK! Seriously... "Residents are right to be mad about Tinley Park dog park arch" ...and it could cost another $3,500 to remove the arch and leave the gaudy columns. Apparently, the Village wanted to make it clear that the road ended into a dog park, so motorists would not drive into the park and the "jurassic park sign" was determined by commissioners to be the best bet? Wouldn't it have been safer, cheaper and more reasonable to put a few concrete pillars or install a standard metal barricade at the end of the road?
Currently, decaying properties and vacant land is sitting in place, due to a village board that is holding out for developers to come in and build what suits their narrow vision. The village should allow private developers the ability to build what is suitable and needed by residents. We're not sure where the Village board is going when transitioning from high end retail, expensive apartments, and parking garage amenities/attractions, to rowhouses and then low-income housing. This Village needs to let residents and businesses determine the vision for their own community. The ideas in which the board has found fitting have not only been protested by the local residents, but the ideas have not come to fruition because the market does not need it.
The Village board needs to stop playing Monopoly with taxpayer money.
Rolling the dice on a taxpayer-funded development at 183rd and Harlem Avenue (or any other property in the Village) isn't an opportunity for taxpayers. It's a ****, a major ****. Changing the system that created this problem is the opportunity. Actually, it's revolutionary. The entire system of our municipalities and school districts need to be restructured into a fiscally responsible structure. |
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