Susie Wiles Quotations

We are very oversubscribed to both Thursday and Friday of this series so I'm afraid we cannot accommodate you this week.

It's not designed to change anything necessarily, but rather to clarify so that in the future we don't have any ambiguity in the code.

Well the fact that people are talking about it, the fact that people have an interest is a good thing. It shows people care about the future of downtown.

It doesn't eliminate access. What it eliminates is some level of convenience.

This is an idea that needs to be validated. It was never designed to be rolled out in final fashion. It's like a concept paper. It's not a finished product, just an idea. We didn't solicit buy-in because it was just an idea.

It's very much a last resort. The goal is to see if we can reach a meeting of the minds or meet somewhere in the middle with JLI. I don't know, though, if we'll succeed.

We just thought it was prudent to pause a bit, see what the market will do and then the government can come in behind and fill in the gaps if there are any.

We felt that it was appropriate to use public funds to jumpstart the market on this type of housing. We do not feel, however, that it is necessarily the government's role to continue to do so. It is time for investors to step forward and help with these needs.

The courthouse did command everyone's time among the staff. It took a little more time than what we wished for, but you could say the project was fatally flawed from the beginning. It took some time, but the mayor was able to work on other initiatives, and I think him pulling the plug on the project will have its place in history.

Where the boundaries aren't clear, we're delineating those. It's a clean-up and a house keeping exercise.