The chairwoman of the Landmarks Preservation Commission announced on Thursday that she was stepping down from her post, after nearly four years of a sometimes tumultuous stewardship.
The chairwoman, Meenakshi Srinivasan, had faced fierce opposition to a set of proposed rule changes that critics said would weaken protections for historic buildings in New York City.
Those changes would, among other things, put the commission staff in charge of some types of landmarks decisions. Critics said that would remove decisions from public view and eliminate the chance for public comment.
At a commission hearing on March 27, an overwhelming majority of speakers voiced opposition to those rules; at least one speaker at the hearing called for the removal of the chairwoman, to loud applause.
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I don't think every government position needs to be filled by a life-long native, but for a job like landmark preservation, someone who wasn't born in the US and didn't grow up in NYC is just less likely to have the emotional and ancestral connection to the past and tradition as someone who is from the city born and raised.
That is pure racism. Having said that, she will probably go down as the WORST chair in LPC's history; arrogant and incompetent. She did a LOT of damage....
I'm surprised they didn't rollout the red carpet and make her stay so she could ruin whats left. Maybe there is some intelligent life in this city.
The last paragraph of the article speaks volumes; she had the endorsement of the President of the Real Estate Board of NY. And we wonder why the City is going downhill so fast. de Blasio's first term shouldn't have happened, but the collective learned nothing from it and still allowed him back for a second term. We need to stop guaranteeing people a second (or third) term "just because". Too many of them are too complacent in their incompetence and/or corruption and they know that the sheeple are too afraid to make changes. The rule should be that everybody gets only one term until they prove themselves worthy of a second.
I wonder if her sudden resignation is tied anyway to those corrupt engineering firms and that scumbag who was recently indicted.
Good that she's out, she's part of the problem. Yes there is a God.
Come on people - we all know that 90% of the problem with Landmarks is City Council and as long as you treat them like Gods nothing will change.
What kind of patronage job does she get next?
Well, it will be a payback gig. Nothing that a FOIL request could not expose. She bent over backwards to accommodate certain architecture firms so that is probably where she is going next.
Well, I am sure in a firm that did a lot of business in front of the LPC. Then, again, TG for FOIL as it all will come out....
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