To the Editor:
The Planning Commission should make a grand statement and resign en masse. This will ensure they will not be subjected to the strong ire of another living anachronism who still believes that protesting in a city forum can make a difference.
What in the world did these commissioners expect when they dissed the citizens they ostensibly serve. Roses? And what message are they sending when they sicced the police on the one citizen who too loudly professed his disappointment with the crony manner in which the commission considered and subsequently approved the Colony Inn Mega-Plex?
It's hard to understand why anyone would want to be a planning commissioner anyway. Its current and past members only meet when someone or some entity wants to alter the city's appearance by making it denser.
They suffer through endless explanations about building plans, infill applications, lot restrictions and what not. Their meetings are theatrically serious but the end is always the same: they shuffle papers, dismiss community concerns and dispense the desired density, decisions that are rubber stamped by our same-minded City Council.
Their new tradition of having police visiting protesters in their home further makes clear they will accept only applause, not cat-calls for their perfunctory performances on the dais. Time for a new cast.
Jimm Roberts
Alexandria