{"id":1864,"date":"2009-03-25T08:23:18","date_gmt":"2009-03-25T13:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1864"},"modified":"2009-03-25T08:24:37","modified_gmt":"2009-03-25T13:24:37","slug":"dixon-wants-variances-who-cares-if-someone-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1864","title":{"rendered":"Dixon wants variances &#8211; Who cares if someone dies?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A long time behind the scenes critic of the Ordean site sent me <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/local\/east\/41798177.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUac8HEaDiaMDCinchO7DUs\">this story <\/a>to emphasize the reason for setback standards that keep buildings far removed from busy streets. He recalls other accidents on what was then a lightly traveled 40th Ave E. Similar accidents are sure to result in injuries or even deaths if we cram 1800 kids with cars onto the Ordean postage stamp.<\/p>\n<p>He writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Ordean building has always been too close to the two major streets, and is subject to just this kind of accident.<br \/>\nThe existing building should have been demolished, even according to the School District&#8217;s own limit of reconstruction costs triggering new construction. [they ignored their own rule]  Retaining this building&#8217;s poor 1950&#8217;s siting in 2009 is one more example of the lack of leadership in this District.  One day we will pick up the paper and we will read of a car or truck smashing into the Ordean school.  <\/p>\n<p>The safety problems about to be unleashed by this Ordean plan go beyond this news report.  Dr. Dixon&#8217;s policy is to ignore everything and everybody&#8211;and that is the limit of his leadership.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A long time behind the scenes critic of the Ordean site sent me this story to emphasize the reason for setback standards that keep&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1864"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}