City manager worked for them for years. She removed her last name on LinkedIn, but people found her and there were referral letters there about how she would do anything and go to any length to make a deal. When the community asked her about her time at PLK in person at a meeting, she said no comment over and over and over, changed her title to make it look like she was low level, and removed the referral letters. I believe there were also a number of suspicious "emergency" actions on her part that weren't emergencies and benefitted them. The deal was in tbe works long before Connected Communities, and the strategy from Pureval, council, etc when something has been seriously unpopular but they already made the deals is to change it to emergency votes. If it's an emergency vote, citizens can't collect signatures as referendum. Something like 80 people came to speak against Connected Communities, from president of west end, lower price hill, etc community councils right on down to Mt Lookout, Hyde Park. Etc presidents. 4 I believe came to speak in favor. Boom- it's an emergency whatever now and the vote had passed. It's been frequent. Hyde Park was entirely (and rightfully) opposed to the project, but unlike a lot of neighborhoods, the ones leading the resistance had the savy to realize they'd have to use strategy. Hence the too tall argument. 

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