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Glendale News-Press (California)
March 3, 2012 Saturday
EDITORIAL: An example of harebrained bureaucracy
March 03--For the second time, the Glendale City Council this week was
forced to overturn a commission-level decision blocking a new gym at
Chamlian Armenian School -- two years after it applied for the right
to build it.
Since 2010, the school has been stuck in a bureaucratic quagmire in
which a select few play the system to tie up a project they feel is
"incompatible" with "their" neighborhood. How many times have we heard
this argument?
First, the Planning Commission turned down the zoning application.
When the City Council overturned that decision, the Design Review
Board then rejected the building plans, basically contending the gym
was too square -- in both senses of the word.
So yet again, two years after the school applied to construct a badly
needed gym for its students, the council overturned the design
rejection. Because after all, who has seen anything but a boxy
gymnasium?
Even Councilman Dave Weaver, a typically unsympathetic ear for such
cases, told the audience on Tuesday night that he was angry the gym
was even still an issue. And several on the dais expressed surprise
that the gym hadn't been built yet.
Well, now Chamlian is free to build its gym. And we have yet another
example of how government can sometimes manage to make such a
no-brainer a harebrained example of road-block bureaucracy.
From: A. Papazian
March 3, 2012 Saturday
EDITORIAL: An example of harebrained bureaucracy
March 03--For the second time, the Glendale City Council this week was
forced to overturn a commission-level decision blocking a new gym at
Chamlian Armenian School -- two years after it applied for the right
to build it.
Since 2010, the school has been stuck in a bureaucratic quagmire in
which a select few play the system to tie up a project they feel is
"incompatible" with "their" neighborhood. How many times have we heard
this argument?
First, the Planning Commission turned down the zoning application.
When the City Council overturned that decision, the Design Review
Board then rejected the building plans, basically contending the gym
was too square -- in both senses of the word.
So yet again, two years after the school applied to construct a badly
needed gym for its students, the council overturned the design
rejection. Because after all, who has seen anything but a boxy
gymnasium?
Even Councilman Dave Weaver, a typically unsympathetic ear for such
cases, told the audience on Tuesday night that he was angry the gym
was even still an issue. And several on the dais expressed surprise
that the gym hadn't been built yet.
Well, now Chamlian is free to build its gym. And we have yet another
example of how government can sometimes manage to make such a
no-brainer a harebrained example of road-block bureaucracy.
From: A. Papazian