corbi328 said---
Why would they be talking about your property?
First, I was being just a tiny bit flip in my remark above made at 1230 this morning. But, as you reminded me, corbi328, this is serious business. I had no business making that flip remark. It obviously wasn't funny. After all, with apologies to Jacob Marley, the business of mankind IS business.
So let get down to business...
The remark above was supposed to indicate to the forum readers how much THIS POSTER is concerned about the issue personally and that he is almost compulsively obsessed about it to the point of paranoia - that was the point of bringing in the word 'paranoia'; in that state you think that people are out to get you, and it is assumed to be baseless and irrational in order to use the term, 'paranoid'. But, it is obviusly not baseless because my house is on a list of houses to be displaced through no desire of mine. Thus the witty saying after the statement.
This also shows that when the village gets into the business of taking homes, you are entering into people's lives, into their feelings. And since it is public it exposes those feelings whether we like it or not. The village should be concerned w/ streets and san.
And, in as much that this experience could be duplicated, to some degree, for others in a similar predicament in Riverside, let my testimony be input to those who would judge this tif proposal. Remember what I said previously, 'if you cannot generalize this act over many people, then it is not a good act'. There are 330 properties in the tif.
More data on the extent to which I think about this tif topic: I dearly wanted to go to that EDC meeting last Thursday, corbi328. It is almost all I think about. The reason I was not there were two reasons:
1) I got into an accident in the driving rain trying to get to the meeting on time. I was, frankly, distracted about getting to the meeting, thinking about the meeting, and backed into a car at the cermak plaza parking lot. That's poetic.
Thankfully, no one was hurt. I did my best high school spanish to communicate to the poor recipient of my tif mindedness and completely took care of it calling my insurance to get them going. So that was one expensive EDC meeting - $500 deductible and an enumerable number of years with substandard auto insurance premium.
2) After I took care of this whole accident mess do you think I went home to relax and dry out? Incredibly, no, I went directly over to town hall to get to the rest of the meeting (it was 8:55). But guess what? the doors were locked. Someone called that poetic also. I waited outside for a half an hour in the cold rain for someone to come out to open the door.
Why, corbi328, did you EDC guys lock the door? Were you trying to lock me out so that I could not come into the meeting? Did you think that I would possibly wreck it, that I would not be civil? (I am joking a bit; this was a bit of flip remark just now indicating to you and to the forum readers the extent that this tif issue is playing into my personal life.. but now I am repeating myself as well).
back to the business....
So, I'll unpack that statement some more and state the obvious. Sometimes we are in the middle of things and we foget why we are here...
Through no desire of mine, there is a proposal for a TIF district in the CBD before the board right now. Through no desire of mine, my property, altho not in the CBD, is listed in that current TIF proposal as a house that may be displaced. The plan that the TIF is based on, the TOD, a transit oriented plan almost fully funded by Metra, and a plan in which I had absolutely no input and opportunity to respond, places the option to displace my house as the number 1 option according to the action matrix of the TOD.
While the village administration is taking some kind of step back now, let me remind you and everyone that the current tif proposal is officially before the board. It has not been rescinded nor amended officially or unofficially. They know they have some 'wiggle time' before the numbers in the tif document 'spoil' at the next assessment in June. All it needs is just four board votes to pass.
These are some rough reasons why I made that remark above at 12:30 in the morning on this website. It is also why there is a riversideinfo.org, and why there is a forum, and why you visited the forum today.
miket
Posted Tuesday Jan 9, 2007 11:39
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