{"id":2216,"date":"2009-06-05T11:57:32","date_gmt":"2009-06-05T16:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=2216"},"modified":"2017-03-02T17:43:04","modified_gmt":"2017-03-02T22:43:04","slug":"overheard-underwhelmed-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=2216","title":{"rendered":"Overheard &#8211; Underwhelmed # 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From JCI&#8217;s &#8220;poor me&#8221; schtick in today&#8217;s &#8220;Overheard&#8221; column.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On Central High School, scheduled to be closed under the red plan:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;It&#8217;s being touted as an ideal site. It&#8217;s less than ideal.&#8221; &#8211; David<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153That site has a lot more drawbacks than most people realize. It&#8217;s<\/p>\n<p>77 acres, but a lot of it is unbuildable because of the grade.&#8221; &#8211; David<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It would have worked as the single high school for the city, but there&#8217;s misunderstanding about the amount of developable land or buildable land there for a school.&#8221; &#8211; David<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We would have needed a parking ramp.&#8221; &#8211; Schiltz<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But there will be no need for a parking ramp on the tiny Ordean site once we get the Duluth Planning Commission&#8217;s OK to build too little parking now. That&#8217;s because a new school board can break this Board&#8217;s promise not to use eminent domain. Paving over Ordean is a small price to pay for all the multiplier effect money the construction industry is going to enjoy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From JCI&#8217;s &#8220;poor me&#8221; schtick in today&#8217;s &#8220;Overheard&#8221; column. On Central High School, scheduled to be closed under the red plan: &#8220;It&#8217;s being touted&#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":[],"class_list":["post-2216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-red-plan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=2216"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20725,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2216\/revisions\/20725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}