UPDATE: The City Council vote on Columbia is today, Dec 19th at 1:30 pm. Columbia Spectator
Rumor has it, the City Council will be voting on the Columbia Expasion plan this Wednesday as opposed to the January date that had initially been circulated. An activist group called The Coalition to Preserve Community sent out an email on Monday claiming that the City Council is in fact moving ahead with a Wednesday vote even though the official website does not have that information and no official notice of the item being on the agenda has been sent out.
I called Speaker Quinn’s office and was told by a staffer that the agenda will be available Wednesday morning. Interesting. For those of you interested in attending the vote on the Columbia Expansion, you might want to be prepared to get down to City Hall sooner than expected.
Read this Columbia Spectator article for more info.
Thanks for the link, Narmer.
Anonymous
December 20, 2007
4, to show you how poorly informed you are, the MTA bus depot is 10x worse for your daughter than a few shops. But do you rally against them? No. You’re eye is off the ball ‘sista.
CU demanded entitlement to adjacent expansion. Colleges & Universities all over America expand their campuses too, are not entitled to adjacent expansion and have extension sites a few or even several miles away from the main campus. This is commonplace.
Entitlement to adjacent expansion is the issue, not characterizing the current use or future use. If an owner of private property does not want to sell to a private property, that’s just too bad, happens all the time in America. Especially when all the entities involved are private.
I support CU expansion too! However I do not support CU’s expectation of entitlement to adjacent expansion, even it if meant stripping the property rights of land owners. It’s really that simple.
To support CU’s position those supporting it inject emotion and speak to irrelevant issues like current or future “use”. These are private parties here.
Micael
December 20, 2007
NYC rezones West Harlem so Columbia Univ can grow.
http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN1954430720071220?pageNumber=1&virtualBrandChannel=0
harlemsista
December 19, 2007
It is unbelievable that people are still fighting against such an opportunity for our neighborhood. My daughter suffers from asthma and I live on 136th street – I blame the exhaust from the repair shops. Having a nice college like Columbia move in is a welcoming sign that things in our neighborhood CAN get better.
I am glad this will begin moving forward
anon
December 19, 2007
Enough already. Finally this thing comes to a head, Columbia can build and the “community” of chop shops and storage houses can leave. This has been the biggest anti-climatic drama ever. Let’s move on. CPC get a life and Tom DeMott need to get a life!
loveisdope
December 18, 2007
“Trickery” in terms of not giving sufficient notice of an important agenda item. Not many working people can drop everything and head to Lower Manhattan at the drop of a dime to attend a very important meeting that directly impacts their community. And also it’s a question not a statement.
anon
December 18, 2007
They never said that the vote would happen for sure in January, so how is this “trickery”?