Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Woodland Record reader dislikes cozy relationship between city and mega-developer

See the letter to the editor.

Posted by Dino at 6:21 PM

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

He owns property by the State... might be biased?

7/21/10 10:51 PM
dino said...

No, he doesn't. That is a false statement.

7/21/10 11:19 PM
Anonymous said...

Looks like you nailed another misinformed troll, Dino!

7/22/10 6:27 PM
Anonymous said...

Mr. Smythe, your misinformed, only two developers responded to the rfp. It was not as you say "...that city staff and our new mayor don’t feel the need to seek multiple proposals for such an important project as a downtown theatre. Get your fact right.

7/24/10 10:31 AM
dino said...

10:31,

The way I read the letter is that Mr. Smythe was referring to this paragraph in the article:

"Ironically, during that December 15 meeting city staff recommended to council that the multiplex development project should include sole source negotiations with Petrovich – a Sacramento developer. Two council members siding with city staff were Martie Dote and Art Pimentel. They definitely wanted a multiplex project to be sole sourced to the Petrovich Development Company who would build it on the Hoblit auto dealer site on Main and Third Streets. This contradicted the Implementation Plan Advisory Committee – a group consisting of City Council/RDA appointees – who recommended that a Request For Proposal process be followed so that a multiplex could possibly include the historic State Theatre."

He got his facts right. It is also true that eventually the RDA approved sending the RFP out for two sites, but it is a fact that city staff and Pimentel (the new mayor) and Dote did not "feel the need to seek multiple proposals."

Perhaps the grammar makes it a bit unclear, but Mr. Smythe's message is not... at least to me. He DOES have his facts right. And he DOES NOT own property by the State.

7/24/10 11:17 AM

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