To the editor:
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Your September 26 article on the proposed Rogers Park TIF [“Why Here? Why Now?”] was generally accurate. However, there was one instance in which I was misquoted. The article quoted me as stating that the members of the Rogers Park Community Action Network (RPCAN) were “disruptive” at a June 18 community meeting and that the meeting was “marred by RPCAN’s sudden appearance on the scene.”
Perhaps the reporter was confused. I did question RPCAN’s tactics at a subsequent meeting on July 30, when 50 or so RPCAN members appeared in an orchestrated manner to criticize the process. This was the final community meeting of our extensive TIF planning process, and most of the RPCAN members present had not attended any of the previous meetings despite the fact that the meetings were well publicized.
