Defender of the Hamlet

During the March Hamlet Board Meeting chair Mike Miller, defending his authorship of a controversial letter to Metro referred to himself as the  

Defender of the Hamlet

Wow....who knew that was in his job description?

The Board has decided that we'll be pinning down the Vision and Values statement from 2010 onto  big maps, creating a graphic of what we want the hamlet to look like when it's fully developed.

This will be created and voted on by the end of June. Basically 3 months from now.  That's a fast track agenda.

 As with anything that's fast-tracked there are lots of discussions that are passed over and lots of compromises that are made for the sake of expediency.  The product can be a little slap-dash. This document can't be accepted casually because it will be what outsiders consider our dreams. So it better look like our dreams.

This blog will go from now until this project is completed. I'll be posting updates from the Hamlet Committees, documents from the neighborhoods, reflections on what we might learn from our own Hamlet History on collaborative planning, identifying some of the players and generally doing what I consider necessary for my own job as -  Defender of the Process.