The three Chestnut Hill development review process letters published this week (Chestnut Hill Local, April 16) exemplify the need to change from a long, bureaucratic, repetitive and committee-based design reinforcing the status quo to a streamlined, efficient and vibrant process encouraging growth and development in Chestnut Hill.
The committee-written, 700-plus-word letter is more than double the Chestnut Hill Local 300-word maximum, three times the length of the other two letters combined, defends the status quo process and participants, relies on an alphabet soup of acronym …
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The three Chestnut Hill development review process letters published this week (Chestnut Hill Local, April 16) exemplify the need to change from a long, bureaucratic, repetitive and committee-based design reinforcing the status quo to a streamlined, efficient and vibrant process encouraging growth and development in Chestnut Hill.
The committee-written, 700-plus-word letter is more than double the Chestnut Hill Local 300-word maximum, three times the length of the other two letters combined, defends the status quo process and participants, relies on an alphabet soup of acronym organizations (CHCA, CHBA, DRC, ZRC, LUPZC, HDAC and CHC) citing some more than five times as rationale and is signed by six well meaning experts embedded in a bureaucratic morass they proudly lay claim, title (past and present), design and membership to.
The two letters in favor of innovating our development review process are succinct (250 words combined), direct, encouraging to the point of welcoming competitive businesses, acronym free and signed by business owners and lifelong residents deeply invested in Chestnut Hill success including buying advertising in this newspaper.
When the time to vote arrives, please consider voting to change the status quo development review process that contributed in part to the 25-plus current visible vacancies on Germantown Avenue.
Fred Walker
Wyndmoor
