Tonight – Motion for Council to Hear HARC-Ruling Appeals Itself
The Georgetown City Council tonight – Tuesday, October 24th, 2006 – will consider the motion to remove from the Planning and Zoning Commission’s Board of Adjustment, jurisdiction over the appeals process from a HARC ruling, and to hear such appeals directly itself. What follows is OldTowners.com’s open address to the Council, arguments against their motion […]
After the Council Meeting.
The Council meeting on Tuesday, October 10 yielded mixed results. The motion to abolish HARC was defeated. The motion to remove appeals of HARC decisions away from the P&Z Board of Adjustment and directly to the Council itself, passed. An amendment to require a super majority vote (majority plus one), which was in line with […]
Neighborhood Meeting October 8 – Save Our Square
Georgetown residents are invited to attend a brief neighborhood meeting on Sunday October 8th, to discuss the upcoming City Council motion to abolish HARC, and ways and means to fight the great Square giveaway. The meeting begins at 7:00 pm and ends at 8:30 pm. The meeting is at 705 East 3rd Street (between Walnut […]
Council to Abolish HARC Tuesday (unless we stop them)
On the Agenda for the Georgetown City Council meeting this Tuesday, October 10, is the proposal to replace or abolish HARC. If this matters to you, show up and show support. Sign up to speak, even to give your 3 minutes away to another speaker.
Carr Rebuttal – City Staff are the Dysfunction, not HARC
[Letter to Williamson County Sun, October 11, 2006 – Ross Hunter] I must challenge Councilman Carr’s flawed reasoning underlying his call to abolish HARC. Mr. Carr correctly affirms that HARC is doing its job steadfastly, in a way that has not changed. But when he diagnoses a dysfunction in the applicant-review process, he kills the […]
Councilman Carr – Abolish HARC
[Letter to Williamson County Sun, October 4, 2006 – Councilman Carr] Recent interest in the work of the city’s Historical and Architectural Commission (HARC) has possibly painted the commission itself as a problem. To the contrary, the problem lies with Georgetown’s city council, which created HARC. In my opinion, HARC is doing about as well […]
Romeo’s – Another Precedent that Blights Old Town
[Letter to Williamson County Sun, Not Published October 8, 2006 – Rick Williamson] But HARC, Romeo, What Yonder Sign Doth Shine Too Blight? Forgive my purposely punned literary references. But I think Old Town Georgetown is in a right-to-life fight against what our national anthem might call a “perilous blight!â€
Romeo’s – the Uproar Comes From Fear, Ignorance, Bluster
[Letter to Williamson County Sun, October 4, 2006 – Ross Hunter] To unlock the economic value of the square and downtown over the coming few years will take a complex and subtle marketing strategy requiring cooler heads than possessed by those trying to make HARC the scapegoat for their lack of business skill. I was […]
Romeo’s – the Real Story of the HARC Meeting
[Letter to Williamson County Sun, October 4, 2006 – Karen Davis] I am very surprised and disappointed that The Sun allowed what seemed to be an op ed piece about HARC and the proposed Romeo’s sign appear as front page news. HARC and commissions like it seem to be the very last bastions of the […]
