We’re giving it another go. Can we agree on the newest plan to improve City Hall Plaza? Will it be implemented? Will it succeed in improving the place everyone dislikes but no one can change?

The nail on which this picture hangs is sustainability. We’ve got to go green on the plaza, say this effort’s movers and shakers. Perhaps the sustainability trend has enough heft to rally us around a plan that someone can come up with the money to build.

I use the word “plan,” but the designers of the latest version of improvement wouldn’t. “Plan” is too definite, causing someone to complain they weren’t consulted before the “plan” was in place. So the implementers use the term “proto-scheme.” Perhaps that is somewhat like “the earth was without form, and void . . .” Continue reading →