To the editor:
I find the inability of Community Board 2 to make an effective statement The community board structure is meant to ensure that our neighborhood’s What should have happened? When the committee’s recommendation was I blame [CB2 Chairwoman] Shirley McRae for her utter indifference and As a Prospect Heights resident, looking forward to the consideration of
on the Downtown Brooklyn rezoning proposals [“Mum’s
the word,” Feb. 7] to be an appalling betrayal of the public
trust.
non-elected leaders have an actual voice in the city’s processes.
To hold only a single vote, producing a defeated resolution, is not the
kind of attention an issue this size deserves. It tells me that our community
leaders are instead too scared, too unwilling or too uninformed to take
a stand on this issue.
defeated, another motion should have been made and carried to vote on
each of the committee’s points individually. Then each recommendation
of the committee, made for or against points of the city’s plan,
would be presented and voted on. At the end of the meeting, you would
have had a much clearer picture of CB2’s sentiments about the plan
in its parts and as a whole.
procedural inflexibility, and I cannot believe members abstained or hid:
they all should lose their appointments. I am speechless that members
of the board found the vote confusing: any reasonably intelligent group
of adults, especially those who have dealt with committees and subcommittees
before (like all CBers!) should have understood what was going on.
the arena project by CBs 2, 6 and 8 (my board), I can only hope CB2 gets
it act together, for the sake of all Brooklyn residents.
—Robert Witherwax,
Prospect Heights
