Maybe we are crazy. I've seen people come into these fights, work on them for a couple of years and then drop out in disgust - believing that nothing can be changed. Well, after all this, I don't have an answer. Something tells me the system is just plain broken. If a multitude of people in a City come out time and again and call for changes and these calls aren't heeded, the people stop believing in the system they have created and either give up all together or come up with other ways to get what they want.
Lawsuits are one way - and that's what's happening in the airport noise and lite rail battles.
In our hopes to change things in Jefferson Park we haven't resorted to that yet, but I have thought it might be time for some mediation in order to put back into our plans the recommendations that we spent years formulating. I'm open to suggestion, but something needs to be done. As far as I can tell, the system is broken.