Allow me to translate that letter paragraph for paragraph into what they are really saying.CIDNA wasn't too happy with Marlys' article. Here's their response: http://www.minnpost.com/letters/2014/01 ... -community
First we need to pat ourselves on the back because look at us we braved the cold to complain about this development. Seriously we're really really awesome. It's also important to point out that Marlys hates on us.
We are already dense enough and we don't want anything to change. We don't want any more development here unless the developer does exactly what we want them to do.
Marlys and MinnPost lied about why a proposal wasn't built, but seriously it wasn't our fault, trust us. To prove that here's some information that nobody's going to read to back up our claim. Again Marlys hates us.
We automatically reject each project unless the developer does exactly what we want and tell them to do. One developer actually did that so we like him but the new guy doesn't so he's mean and evil. Also we don't want it to take any longer for us to get to work. We can force people to spend money on doing exactly what we want them to do because otherwise our feeling's will be hurt and we'll cry about it.
Again MinnPost and Marlys hate us and didn't write and post exactly what we wanted. Our neighborhood association is really super duper awesome and how dare you say otherwise. Again it's important to point out that MinnPost and Marlys hate us.
Mayor Hodges please do what we want, but I can't forget to mention once again that MinnPost and Marlys hate us. Our idea of "collaboration and creative solutions" is to sit around and waste everyone's time talking and complaining about things endlessly until developers can only do exactly what we want.
Signed,
Jackass 1, President NIMBY
Jackass 2, Executive Director of the Department of Ridiculously Stupid Concerns and Complaints