January 29, 2013 at 6:02 pm
#774828
DBP
Member
–Yes and no.
Yes, Nickelsville should ALL look like this . . . but ONLY if it is LEGAL and City has oversight.
Given that City never approved it, however, and given that the City now appears to be moving toward eviction, more shacks standing there just means more shacks that may ulitmately have to be torn down. So in that sense, I don’t think it was good idea to build the shacks.
In my opinion, it would have been better for the shack-building volunteers to have put their energy into working with the City to find a long-term solution. Same goes for SHARE/WHEEL.
SHARE/WHEEL apparently felt that they could take ownership of public property simply by taking possession and building on it, but it doesn’t work that way, as we shall soon see . . .