Comments on: HUD, Justice Department asked to review Downtown Redevelopment Plan http://www.clarksvilleonline.com/2008/05/07/hud-justice-department-asked-to-review-downtown-redevelopment-plan/ The voice of Clarksville, Tennessee Thu, 11 Mar 2010 04:30:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: CastleWatch Daily - Official Blog of the Castle Coalition » Clarksville update http://www.clarksvilleonline.com/2008/05/07/hud-justice-department-asked-to-review-downtown-redevelopment-plan/comment-page-1/#comment-7062 CastleWatch Daily - Official Blog of the Castle Coalition » Clarksville update Fri, 09 May 2008 20:51:57 +0000 http://www.clarksvilleonline.com/?p=5090#comment-7062 [...] policy is racist; he plans having the NAACP investigate. In addition, he’s asked the federal Department of Justice and the Nashville Housing and Urban Development office to look into the situation as [...] [...] policy is racist; he plans having the NAACP investigate. In addition, he’s asked the federal Department of Justice and the Nashville Housing and Urban Development office to look into the situation as [...]

]]> By: savvyvoters http://www.clarksvilleonline.com/2008/05/07/hud-justice-department-asked-to-review-downtown-redevelopment-plan/comment-page-1/#comment-7055 savvyvoters Fri, 09 May 2008 10:33:29 +0000 http://www.clarksvilleonline.com/?p=5090#comment-7055 Please get a copy of Steven Greenhut's book, Abuse of Power. Ask your library to have a copy available as well. It will tell you all you need to know about the property rights abuse caused by bogus blight and developer driven redevelopment areas. Please get a copy of Steven Greenhut’s book, Abuse of Power. Ask your library to have a copy available as well. It will tell you all you need to know about the property rights abuse caused by bogus blight and developer driven redevelopment areas.

]]> By: Turner McCullough Jr. http://www.clarksvilleonline.com/2008/05/07/hud-justice-department-asked-to-review-downtown-redevelopment-plan/comment-page-1/#comment-7030 Turner McCullough Jr. Thu, 08 May 2008 11:42:53 +0000 http://www.clarksvilleonline.com/?p=5090#comment-7030 I commend the action taken by the Clarksville Branch NAACP in this matter. The local government has shown itself resentful and resistant of the public concern and outcry against the redevelopment plan and ordinance. They have displayed a persistent blindness to their own disregard of the state's requirements for such redevelopment actions. Perhaps the involvement of federal gov't assets will bring a calmer analysis of the city's plan. The violation of state's own voting rights protections should give pause to these federal assets. HUD's involvement would seem to mandate that its own guidance for its programs are reviewed with a scrutiny that has apparently escaped our local officials thus far. As noted in the NAACP's complaint, protections mandated by the state have been specifically omitted from the Clarksville structure. These omissions can not be explained away with the wave of a hand. I commend the action taken by the Clarksville Branch NAACP in this matter. The local government has shown itself resentful and resistant of the public concern and outcry against the redevelopment plan and ordinance. They have displayed a persistent blindness to their own disregard of the state’s requirements for such redevelopment actions.

Perhaps the involvement of federal gov’t assets will bring a calmer analysis of the city’s plan. The violation of state’s own voting rights protections should give pause to these federal assets. HUD’s involvement would seem to mandate that its own guidance for its programs are reviewed with a scrutiny that has apparently escaped our local officials thus far.

As noted in the NAACP’s complaint, protections mandated by the state have been specifically omitted from the Clarksville structure. These omissions can not be explained away with the wave of a hand.

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