Downtown Frankenstein: Robert Moses and Haydon Burns
(http://www.metrojacksonville.com/photos/thumbs/lrg-1917-main-street-moses-1962.jpg)
This site led the explosion of controversy over the appointment of Brad Thoburn to the position of Planning Director. We devoted a lot of typestrokes to the basic unfairness of appointing a person who did not (and still doesn't) posess the basic qualifications to hold the position. Most of the public and all of the local media felt this was simple cronyism and unwise.
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http://www.metrojacksonville.com/content/view/548
Don't his plans also include a park system between Main & Ocean that runs from the river to Springfield?
I believe that plan was being pushed by Jack Diamond. I'm still trying to figure who's going to blast 11 East and the Haydon Burns, since their sites are shown as a part of the "Downtown Seam" in the lastest master plan.
I'm still getting Jack Diamond and Robert Moses confused. The great "parting of the downtown core" with the downtown seam sounds like a move by "Moses". :)
The city chooses managers that do not meet the professional qualifications for the positions
because professionals understand the consequences of bad political decisions and can and will
leave to get a similar or better salary and position elsewhere.
Locals cannot replace the income in the local market if they are civil servants and thus are trapped.
Politicians that are unqualified for the job know it is for a short term and use it for a stepping-stone.
In either case we the citizens of the community bear the costs
for the political decisions coming out of these situations!