Political redundancy of CBAs Sample Clauses

Political redundancy of CBAs. In California project development is to a degree about politics, to be precise: getting the approval from the city to develop the project. The government cannot take charge on certain smaller community issues because it is tied down in its power and possibilities and because some neighborhood issues as negotiated in CBAs are not political issues. Communities can ask for things that will never be provided by the government. The CBA is not a redundant tool regarding people’s representation. Xxxxxx Xxxxx argues the same in different words: The history of development in the USA shows that the city has basically represented the powerful groups. What makes a CBA different is that it begins to take into consideration the interests of groups that historically had no power (Interview Saito, 2013). Furthermore, the community representatives stated the process of developing a CBA is also good for the development of personal skills in the community such as leadership and negotiation; to quote Xxxxx Xxxxxxxxx: When you talk about a pretty significant development, say you’re building LA Live and it has a city subsidy, and it is going to have a pretty massive effect on a neighborhood, you have lots of people who have interest in that. There are different ways to get involved. The traditional way for people to get involved is to go to the city council and make their voice heard, and let the city council member make the decision about that. What that typically results in, is a ‘yes’ or ‘no’. The city council member leads to […] the member hears X number of people saying they do not like the project and Y-number saying they do. Then they vote up or down. So to my mind, the goal of a CBA is more often try to make the development work, but make it work in a way that instead of having X number of people on the ‘no’-side and Y number of people on the ‘yes’-side, have everybody on the ‘yes’-side, but instead with conditions that the developer can live with […] Whereas if it is a project that does not have these things, you have winners and losers. You have some people who are losing their houses, so they might say ‘it is good for the economy, but I am losing my house’ (Interview Elmendorf, 2013). Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx added a more philosophical argument: I think that is what the CBA is, a form of empowerment for communities to be engaged within the planning process in a nonlinear fashion. It is slightly disruptive of the rational planning model because you cannot really predict how t...
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