Friday, October 21, 2005
UnhUh...No She Dinhit!
Holy crap. This is one of the most absurd comments I've heard in all of the LPDS debate. In Margaret Wood's letter today, she says the following: "The market for Hispanic food in the Cedar Shoals Drive area is already saturated by Mexicali Grille, La Fiesta and Taco Bell." That's like saying the market for American food has been saturated by McDonald's, Burger King, and AppleBee's, so who needs the Porterhouse Grill? Besides, all three of those are Mexican, and fast-food or TexMex Mexican at that, and not the South American fare that Bruno is known for. But, you know, I guess I'm splitting hairs to make that fine of a distinction (sarcastic grin).
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Amen to that.
And is there really all of this opposition to LPDS ... or is it just Margaret Wood?
I love it when we're bipartisan.
UN-Fucking-believable.
Not that there's not other Latin-American food on the Eastside (Montecristo Restaurant), but it's such an ignorant thing to say.
No conspiracy theories necessary. I have it on good authority (sorry, I can't name names) that comments in a similar vein (ie, there are already too many Mexican restaurants on the east side) were also made by someone to at least a few of the commissioners.
Coincidence?
And I agree that Bruno and Matt are good guys, which perhaps explains why they're having political trouble.
See above for confirmation of said rumors.
I'm pretty confident (as, I would imagine, are most of the rational folks on our side of the deabte) that Ms. Wood's comment is in no way indicative of the intelligent concerns about LPDS.
Monticello, with all due respect (and I mean that - you're one of the only logical folks I've heard from your side of the debate), if GSR between BOA and Willowood is a good example of what the overlay can do for a neighborhood, I'd hate to see a bad one. Alpharetta, perhaps?
And, while the boards may have only cited zoning as their big concern (which is what boards should be concerned with) numerous residents were concerned about noise, etc.
So, I think this is a postive step for LPDS, and I'll stick with my original point. If those drug stores don't go through the same process of soliciting community input that Bruno has, then I'll be right there by you, as I hope you would be for me if it were my neighborhood. And hey, despite what some of your neighbors say, you're more than welcome to talk about stuff in my barrio, baby.
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