Planning Commission Regular Meeting/Work Session

Paul Cunninghamof their educational facility to improve the athletic facilities and that was the parents at Paul VI banding together to improve the facility and there was one individual in particular who organized the residents to oppose that and got the political structure at the time to support it. Now at the beginning of this process, no one had a vision for what the outcome was going to be. And now that that process has concluded, no one who was involved in the original process felt that that was the intended outcome that they wanted because most of them don't want what happened next as it went down the line. So many of the decisions we make snowball to take you to some place you may or may not be able to predict

Then you're going to go back five years and more when it was suggested that Paul VI came up and no one had given it a thought. The Planning Commission, the citizens of the city, no one thought that that school could possibly go away or anything could happen to it. It was just a fixture here. It's the old Fairfax High School. We have a lot of residents still in this city who graduated from that old building, not the new one. And they all came out in the process of redevelopment to let us know that. So we had talked, and in the 2019 comp plan, we had a number of properties designated to be looked at as right potentially for redevelopment, and what would you want to happen there? And it was suggested, especially as you say,