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Originally Posted by brooke
Re: majority's opinion: The FNA is The Neighborhood Association. Ie. if you are a member of the community and want a local zoning say on what is going in your neighborhood, you join it. If you don't care, you sit at home. Neighborhoods work like this--Old City Civic, NLNA in No. Libs, etc. Are you questioning the rationale behind all neighborhood associations or just the FNA? And if just the FNA, then what specifically are they/we doing which is causing your objection?
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all of them. they have too much power in Philadelphia and work more like mobs staffed by the squeakiest wheels. I have problems with the assumptions that a bunch of unelected people who think they know what's best for the community can determine teh viability of a business idea. In the future, these associations need to have much less power. That isn't to say they should have none, but they shouldn't always be able to get their hands in the pot.