Comment on City Hall to create “citizen advisory panel” on the Nugget Project by Dave Morgan
Mr. Hataway: There is a Redevelopment Citizens Advisory Committee but it is truly a “citizens” committee charged with some of the more standard forms of redevelopment proposals. These large, complicated deals like with car dealers or the Nugget, are well above their skill sets. What the proposed Nugget advisory committee seems to be made up of are folks with higher professional skill sets providing oversight to some of the more complicated contractual links to make the whole thing go. Again, the presumption that it’s a done deal prevails on the make-up of the committee and of the tasks assigned to it. However, there are a few folks on it that are “regular citizens” who have been clear they’re not sold on it. Who knows. Even they may grow pom-poms. But then again they may not.