Name:   Lifer - Subject:   No it isn't Date:   5/29/2021 5:59:57 PM

When looking at the big picture you have to look at the past city government admistraitions.  Woody Baird did that in a big way when he pointed out the last 167 votes by the AC council were unanimous.  Thats 6 people agreeing 167 times in a row. Go anywhere and round up six folks and try to get them to agree 167 times in a row.   That is NOT a government doing the city's business, that is a rubber stamp committee.  I don't think it takes much thought to figure out who they were rubber stamping for.  Not to name names but its pretty obviuos it was Russell Lands.  It wasn't very long at all after Woody won that they scaled back the Wicker Point "resort".  It couldn't have been that they saw that things were going to change with the new administration and their rule was coming to an end, or at least a big pause.

How many thrift stores are appropriate for AC?  I don't know what the exact count will be but I can tell you that the proper number of any business in any area is always the same, whatever the market will bear.  Will the thrift stores stop a major development from coming to an area, not a chance.  That would never factor in to a developors decision, only the economics of the area and the number of rooftops.  Having so many parttimers hurts the area.  Another factor that might thwart development is the city NOT being able to provide and audited set of city financials, a city CFO showing up for an audit empty handed not even knowing what to bring to an audit.

What they don't look for is a city that will take the most prime retail location in said city and decide to build a school on it.