Here is Resolution 010-2018. I have spoken with parties both in Whitehall and Woodcliff whose versions of what is going on with this resolution differ. Is the city of Whitehall merely trying to ‘abate nuisances’, or are they using processes at their disposal to simply take the properties (which I’ve alleged in other posts)?*:

https://votedixon.com/2015/10/29/woodcliff-v-whitehall-what-lies-beneath/

https://votedixon.com/2015/10/30/woodcliff-v-whitehall-part-two-the-pirates-of-whitehall/

Or, perhaps this time they’re trying to negotiate a purchase of the properties? Being that Whitehall has the Norton Crossing development going in caddy-corner from Woodcliff, are invoking eminent domain to take Eugene Fletcher’s strip shopping center, as well as getting a YMCA in the Community Park, I can’t imagine they would leave this island of a community, aged as Woodcliff is, alone. It is too valuable to the city of Whitehall in the scheme of things.

So too, Whitehall City Hall has spent a great deal of our tax dollars to pursue this community/corner, ostensibly because of purported dilapidation and crime. Are crime and dilapidation truly their obsession (there is some crime in equal numbers elsewhere in our city) or is it merely an advantageous ruse for public consumption, acting as the shiny keys to distract from possible underlying motivation$, those which they’re not being upfront about with citizens? Otherwi$e, why spend so much of our money on one particular $pot? **

Stay tuned. Time will tell.

* It seems the city of Whitehall is really selling something in this Resolution when they include crime statistics (much like what they did when they were making a case against Commons at Royal Landing)                                                                                            https://votedixon.com/2017/08/12/the-politics-of-perception/

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