{"id":1829,"date":"2012-03-21T21:41:58","date_gmt":"2012-03-22T04:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/?p=1829"},"modified":"2012-03-21T21:41:58","modified_gmt":"2012-03-22T04:41:58","slug":"realists-perspectives-at-community-meetings-not-appreciated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/?p=1829","title":{"rendered":"\u201cRealists\u201d Perspectives at Community Meetings Not Appreciated"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\"\"<\/a>\nThe Stapleton neighborhood does a great job with keeping community members involved in planning, progress, and events coming up. A majority of this community involvement is handled through community meetings, where committee leaders, developers, and planners hold open forums for people in the community to come in and share their opinions. There are often heated exchanges in meetings as opinions often differ. One thing that a majority of attendees can agree on is that no one likes the level-headed, common sense, realist perspective some are bringing.\n\u201cDon\u2019t tell me something can\u2019t be done,\u201d says meeting-goer Chris Edmunston. \u201cAnd definitely don\u2019t tell something isn\u2019t realistic. That\u2019s not why I came here.\u201d Others agree. \u201cWhen I go to those meetings, I want my voice to be heard, and my ideas to be accepted without rationale,\u201d says Andy Gustufson. \u201cAnd most certainly don\u2019t try to take me through the reasons why something isn\u2019t feasible. I\u2019m just not listening.\u201d\nRealist Josh Runyan definitely feels unwanted. \u201cI am like anyone else. I want what is best for our community, but it needs to make sense given our current environment.\u201d Runyan says he is often given dirty looks after meetings, and has even stopped being invited to neighborhood social events. \u201cOne of the neighbor kids actually pushed my kid down yesterday,\u201d says Runyan. \u201cThey used to be best friends, but he told my son, \u2018your daddy\u2019s not like my daddy.\u2019\u201d\nOrganizers of the community forums say that all perspectives are welcome, however the radical ideas are the most welcome. \u201cWhen we get rational ideas we may have to follow through with them,\u201d says committee leader Sarah Budke. \u201cThe irrational ideas we can simply tell the people that we will look into that.\u201d Realists are considered to be very rare, and apparently, unwanted in this community.\n]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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