Probably one of the main reasons peeps did not vote in the city election and recent primaries is because the government doesn’t engage them. They have no clue of what is going on so why vote?
I will give you an example. I like to ride around town at night and look at public/private partnerships. It is intriguing to me how some partners really take it one step further and some just cash the check and say, oh well.
So I was riding on the river greenway tonight by the Steel District project admiring the cheap exterior elements 🙁 and some random dude in a random car (not security) told me I needed to leave the PRIVATE property. I told him it was NOT private property and pointed to the greenway while I was sitting on a public street attached to a parking ramp that got a $25 million dollar TIF.
He wanted to argue, but I informed him I was sitting on public property and had every right to be there. He didn’t know what to say except, “This is private property.”
It just goes to show just how little the general public knows. We are paying for that patio, we are paying for the infrastructure, we own that damn project whether we like it or not yet some clown in a random car needed to somehow school me. Poor fella.