http://houstonist.com/2007/04/09/how_you_can_hel.php All comments for How you can help The Center en-us 2009 Brittanie Shey Mon, 05 Jan 2009 15:00:00 -0600 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss brittanie@houstonist.com brittanie@houstonist.com 60 http://houstonist.com/2007/04/09/how_you_can_hel.php#comment-1066014 http://houstonist.com/2007/04/09/how_you_can_hel.php#comment-1066014 Comments Thu, 12 Apr 2007 12:46:26 -0600 <p>Jeez, I'm damned if I do and damned if I don't around here.</p> http://houstonist.com/2007/04/09/how_you_can_hel.php#comment-1065880 http://houstonist.com/2007/04/09/how_you_can_hel.php#comment-1065880 Comments Thu, 12 Apr 2007 10:50:33 -0600 <p>As most of you have probably heard, The Center for Serving Persons with Mental Retardation is in a battle with the city over their land - which is worth $26 million - on West Dallas. [snip] Mayor White has expressed "desire a reasonable agreement" and is "willing to work with them in considering any location, including the current one." Read his full op-ed here. I know you're a big fan of Mayor White, but the fact is that Mayor White HEADS the city, and that he, ultimately, is the one proposing to evict these people, to benefit local developers and city coffers. If he truly desires a solution to technical legal problems that his staff has mysteriously just located in the language of these old agreements that other administrations have been perfectly happy to honor, then the city's legal staff and the fine legal minds at Baker Botts should be able to come up with a solution in no time at all that fixes the language and maintains the arrangement. If, as it appears, Mayor White instead wants to break an agreement made in good faith previously by the city and the nonprofit in order to boost local developers and city coffers, then even his biggest boosters ought to be honest enough to admit that's what he's doing -- and either support or condemn his decision.</p>