Thursday, September 23, 2010

Opinion Piece. Published in MyLocalNews



Council sets bad example

What the City Council did Sept. 7 (by approving lights at the Arbolitos flood control basin) was demonstrate to the children of Poway that it is OK to make a promise, then not keep it.

The council did this by hiding behind the language of a “conditional use permit,” and the mentality of granting variances. They rendered a promise as worthless since a) most of them didn’t make the promise personally, and b) they bent to the very vocal and strident minority community pressure.

But, a promise is not an ordinance. A promise is not a something that is either mandated by ordinance or something to be evaluated as part of a variance. Keeping a promise is an issue of moral integrity and ethical behavior — there is no such thing as promise with a variance.

Don Nieto
Poway




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