Excerpted from the Planning Board site: *The broad mission of the Planning Board is to further the welfare of the citizens of Lincoln by helping to create and preserve a healthful, convenient, efficient and attractive community environment. The physical as well as the social and economic community is a single organism, all features and activities of which are related and interdependent. There is a need for the application of intelligent foresight and planned administrative and legal coordination, if balance, harmony, and order are to be insured. It is the task of planning to supply this foresight and this overall coordination. *
Planning Board members may reflect on the charge. As I recall Margaret Olson chaired the 2019 meeting I am referring to. There was a total disconnect from what was presented to what was expected. The meeting ended in a melee. I tried to look for the minutes of that meeting, but couldn't find. Let us start with a fresh slate. The task is not complicated. No Commonwealth would want to destroy a town. We want new people to come. We want to preserve the character of the town as much as possible. Let the development be distributed. Let the documents not be produced or written over by third party individuals who have little interest in the town. Please reconstitute the Working Group taking many able volunteers from this group. The sky won't fall! Let us all be objective and focused with *application of intelligent foresight* . Bijoy Misra On Sun, Oct 29, 2023 at 5:23 PM Michael Dembowski <mjdembow...@gmail.com> wrote: > Rich- > I appreciate the apology made in advance, not the narrow literal > interpretation of a well-intentioned post. > Michael > > On Oct 29, 2023, at 11:22 AM, Rich Rosenbaum <s...@bcdef.com> wrote: > > > *I very much appreciate your response, having cherry picked my email as > (perhaps) offering a good primer on civic process here in Lincoln. I find > it helpful to have this be on LT to help inform and remind all. * > > from Wikipedia: > >> *Cherry picking*, *suppressing evidence*, or the *fallacy of incomplete >> evidence* is the act of pointing to individual cases or data that seem >> to confirm a particular position while ignoring a significant portion of >> related and similar cases or data that may contradict that position. Cherry >> picking may be committed intentionally or unintentionally.[2] >> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherry_picking#cite_note-2> >> > I see no 'cherry picking' either intentional or otherwise. I, for one, > appreciate the inclusion of relevant references so that I have the context > for a response especially within a long thread of multiple messages. > > If you meant another definition of 'cherry picking', my apologies. > > Rich > > On Sun, Oct 29, 2023 at 10:52 AM Michael Dembowski <mjdembow...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Margaret - >> I very much appreciate your response, having cherry picked my email as >> (perhaps) offering a good primer on civic process here in Lincoln. I find >> it helpful to have this be on LT to help inform and remind all. >> Sincerely >> Michael Dembowski >> Conant Road >> >> On Oct 29, 2023, at 9:16 AM, Margaret Olson <s...@margaretolson.com> >> wrote: >> >> >> >> *"At what point does any town official respond to David's critique? - a >> response is needed whether by special meeting or thru LT.* >> >> *At risk is any community faith in the process that already seems >> fractured. "* >> >> Michael, >> >> The open meeting laws require that any deliberations be held in a posted >> public meeting. When I respond to posts it is to cite facts and to the >> extent possible point people to existing information. The open meeting law >> requirements are cumbersome and do make the pace of response slow, and >> particularly slow for issues that cross multiple boards as does the HCA. >> >> All of the HCA materials, including the town's state submission (to date) >> and all public presentations, can be found here: >> https://www.lincolntown.org/1327/Housing-Choice-Act-Working-Group. This >> site is updated regularly with new information. Keep in mind that the >> boards and committees receive multiple variations on the same questions and >> in general address them through the public forums and the town's HCA page. >> >> I encourage you and others with questions to come to one of the forums on >> November 8th: at 8am in the town offices or at 7pm on Zoom (registration: >> https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0lcuuqqj8uGtFZbgFL3Ghr2zR5oH5ZdaVF). >> >> >> Margaret >> >> On Fri, Oct 27, 2023 at 8:52 AM Michael Dembowski <mjdembow...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> At what point does any town official respond to David's critique? - a >>> response is needed whether by special meeting or thru LT. >>> At risk is *any* community faith in the process that already seems >>> fractured. >>> Dialogue is welcome - whether it be acknowledgement of errors, a >>> response to each point made, or even an extended invite to David to >>> formally join HCAWG. >>> Michael Dembowski >>> Conant Road >>> >>> >>> -- > The LincolnTalk mailing list. > To post, send mail to Lincoln@lincolntalk.org. > Browse the archives at https://pairlist9.pair.net/mailman/private/lincoln/ > . > Change your subscription settings at > https://pairlist9.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/lincoln. > >
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