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THE SPEECH (Oct 24, 03)

INTRODUCTION

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There was an item on the October 16, 2003 Planning Commission agenda, that had been continued from its September 11 meeting. Some City Heights residents
have an interest in the matter and had testified at the September 11 meeting.
As our neighbors were testifying on October 24, 2003, the following remarks
were offered by Planning Commissioner Carolyn Chase.
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THE TRANSCRIPT

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Commissioner Chase:
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"While she's coming up - on the community members, you know, we've heard a number of projects from these areas and I have to put a point of personal order here that a lot of you people ask for changes when you decide you want changes, ok? I sat on a project here [editors note: the project was the Central Police Facility at Home Avenue and Federal Boulevard.] with many of these people coming up and saying we don't want to respect the designation of these plans, we don't - we want changes to these plans.
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So please don't speak to this commission about how you want us to protect you in one case, and not in another and I don't know where this thing about guns and ammunition is coming from, but in this very community you didn't seem to be very interested in dealing with the safety issues in regard to the pistol range and having an open firing range in your community and the neighbors and what they wanted there. You were perfectly willing to come forward and say we're going to amend that plan, because we've decided we want to amend that plan, so I don't know what we're going to do today, but I'm not very receptive to these comments that says, you know, that we're supposed to enforce everything, but when you come and ask for changes and accept it, we're then supposed to do those changes in some cases and not others, so I just want to say I've lived - been around a while now in this community and you have conflict, and I would have preferred if you actually deal with the conflicts rather than come and lecture us with positions that are inconsistent with past testimony you've given. I'm sorry, but we go through a lot up here."
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Chairman Lettieri's response:
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"Let me - um - that is not a um, er (laugh) yeah, nor is it an opportunity to really focus on the project and don't - let's not get into a dialogue about that."
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