Adrian's gate thing
I'm a bit late on the whole Adrian wrote a letter to Flagpole thing, so forgive me. So here are some thoughts ...
- Those were some pretty friggin' harsh comments that were fairly unwarranted. You may disagree with the guy, but when you concoct arguments he's not even making, that's ridiculous.
- As you may know from Athens World, when Adrian comes to write, he comes to write.
- As far as the actual issue itself, I'd recommend that each gated community is responsible for producing either cards that can be distributed to all EMS vehicles, or that the codes are given to all emergency personnel. I don't think we need an ordinance mandating this or that the gates need to come down unless the individual communities make an independent decision to do just that. It seems like there's a fairly simple solution floating around here.
- I would disagree, at least on a sementics level, with Adrian regarding this line - 'Living behind a gate is not really about making a private choice' - in the sense that most gated communities, whether patio home neighborhood communities or apartment complexes, tend to be on the higher end of the financial scale (more so for renters, I would imagine). So there is some private choice involved. Folks made the decision to live in a particular community like Jennings Mill rather than, say, Forest Heights or Carrington Plantation or Chadd's Walk, three neighborhoods with comparable prices. I don't point this out to suggest they are any less worthy of receiving timely and efficient city services, but to note that it should be the responsibility of the community to work out something with the local government to ensure said timeliness and efficiency.
- Those were some pretty friggin' harsh comments that were fairly unwarranted. You may disagree with the guy, but when you concoct arguments he's not even making, that's ridiculous.
- As you may know from Athens World, when Adrian comes to write, he comes to write.
- As far as the actual issue itself, I'd recommend that each gated community is responsible for producing either cards that can be distributed to all EMS vehicles, or that the codes are given to all emergency personnel. I don't think we need an ordinance mandating this or that the gates need to come down unless the individual communities make an independent decision to do just that. It seems like there's a fairly simple solution floating around here.
- I would disagree, at least on a sementics level, with Adrian regarding this line - 'Living behind a gate is not really about making a private choice' - in the sense that most gated communities, whether patio home neighborhood communities or apartment complexes, tend to be on the higher end of the financial scale (more so for renters, I would imagine). So there is some private choice involved. Folks made the decision to live in a particular community like Jennings Mill rather than, say, Forest Heights or Carrington Plantation or Chadd's Walk, three neighborhoods with comparable prices. I don't point this out to suggest they are any less worthy of receiving timely and efficient city services, but to note that it should be the responsibility of the community to work out something with the local government to ensure said timeliness and efficiency.
posted by Jmac at 6:48 AM
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