Berwyn Bankruptcy Comments
(About the May 28, 2014 letter from a Berwyn resident).
Symptomatic
It is difficult to understand what building director Charles D. Lazzara does for a day job when he is not running errands for his political masters. The condition that this resident has documented is a fraction of the condition that can be seen throughout the city.
The abject failure to enforce the blight and over-crowding codes is symptomatic of a politically managed city and is just one of many examples that illustrate the need for fundamental change in the management of city government.
There is no day-to-day accountability in a politically managed city. Political hacks only need to answer to residents every four years. In the independent professionally managed form of government which has been adopted by a majority of cities across the United States, city management must answer to the residents EVERY DAY.
It is no secret that the value of property and quality of life is highest in communities that are under independent professional management. Once political management is eliminated and professional business management takes hold, the quality of life and the value of property in the City of Berwyn will take a steep vertical.
All you need do is drive down the alleys throughout the city and you will see blight conditions replicated ad nauseam. I have personally seen Berwyn homes into which raccoons and squirrels access attics under the eaves and chronic garbage mounds piled high out of waste containers.
A lot of good it does for the Berwyn taxpayer to subsidize the Berwyn Development Corporation with millions of tax dollars to promote Berwyn. You can't paint a pretty face on a city when it is run by people who barely qualify to run for high school student council. The self-interest and silly self-congratulatory "vote-for-me" psychosis of leadership in this city piles on additional embarrassment in an already suffocating and archaic political environment.
If Berwyn Bankruptcy supported candidates were voted into office, you would see a clear policy on over-crowding and, once established, the slumlord would be fined $500 a day for as long as the condition existed. Absentee landlords would be held to meet specific obligations. Taxpaying Berwyn residents and potential investors would begin to realize that residential and retail slumlord behavior will not be tolerated.
You will be reminded of this letter as well as this response as we continue to unveil remedies to cure the terminal political disease that Berwyn suffers.
The Innocent Bystander
June 7, 2014
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