Residents fear a zoning change might harm bedroom community's character.
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First world problems
Yeah, down with those Dickensian rich people! Boo! Look at how snobby they are! Thank you for bringing to light the silliness and entitlement of these residents! Hiss! How bougie of that one lady to worry about property values! They are fair game because they have a lot of money! I’ll get my pitchfork.
You kind of have to dig deep on a beat like this, huh? Also, have you guys fired all of your copyeditors?
Yes property values is what they are worried about. Right. That’s not coded language or anything. They might as well call their group “Keep River Hills White.”
I like it when River Hills was originally called Riverdale, until a group of residents fueled a group to change the name, I believe in 1931.
A town as wealthy as this and all these white people have to meet in what looks like a condemned church basement? They couldn’t pay a few bucks to have someone hide the ugly cabling?
While they are opening their wallets, couldn’t someone have made a sign that people might actually look at too? I guess it’s to expensive for artists and creatives to live there.
TIFS are only for blighted areas.? May I remind Mr. Shafrin that TIFS have been used for development in downtown Milwaukee for years.
Oh but I bet these residents would welcome a Chick-Fil-A
Classic Nimby stuff here. I saw these signs yesterday on a bike ride, chuckled to myself thinking of all the free market capitalists that had these in front of their homes.
Doctor Fred Shafrin seems a bit of a racist. Free speech and all that so no one should tell his partners.
Isn’t upward mobility part of the American Dream? In the hyper segregated metro Milwaukee area, River Hills’s population is actually MORE diverse than most of the surrounding suburban communities. Wanting to preserve the residential ambience of the Village is laudable considering the rampant over development of many suburban areas. Seems a bit of a stretch to equate residents’ desire to maintain a lifestyle choice as being racist/elitist. I do not live in River Hills, and wonder if those who play the race card /wealth card in making their comments are River Hills residents themselves. Seems more akin to the Aesop fable about the dog in the manger.