Disability Perspective: The Historic (Self) Preservation CommissionBob Plantholdbyline‚ Nov. 02‚ 2009In this period of honoring the dead -- Halloween, All Saint's Day, Day of the Dead --, it's worth addressing again a new- born city agency that focusses solely on the past. The newly- functioning Historic Preservation Commission [HPC] already is functioning worse than the low expectations that people with disabilities projected for it. On October 7th, throughout presentations about the North Beach branch library by staff and consultants for the Library Commission or the Rec. & Park Commission, and despite multiply- reinforced comments by the public, the seven HPC members adamantly failed to talk about PEOPLE. |