Putting the Horse Before the Cart

In a hopeful sign of council rationality and circumspection, the Emerald City Council Chairman announces that the council will require a bit more information than it has now, before taking Boss Godfrey up on his offer, and committing itself to a high-rollers' jet-junket to Telluride, Colorado. So reports Ace Reporter Schwebke in this morning's headline Standard-Examiner story. In a laudable Emerald City exhibit of "putting the horse before the cart," Council Chairman Garcia says he "doesn't see the value of the council travelling out-of-state to inspect a gondola until it receives answers to questions about [Chris] Peterson's proposal" (so-called,) according to today's Scott Schwebke's story.

In addition to seeking answers to its pending (unanswered) 184 questions, the council is also doing its own survey of other municipalities that have caught gondola fever, says Council Director Bill Cook. Not a bad idea, we think. Ten of these other cities have been apparently identified so far, according to this morning's story.

Hopefully the council will also remain in the same reason-based, horse-before-the-cart mode in the connection with this aspect of Mr. Peterson's "proposal," which calls for the wholesale gutting of Emerald City's existing planning and zoning scheme, as some sort of weird & bizarre council "good-faith gesture."

And hopefully each and every council-member will expend the necessary time and energy, somewhere down the line, to read, study and comprehend THIS critically-important document.

What think our gentle readers about all this? And who amongst our gentle readers can name all the other ten cities that have contracted the dreaded gondola fever?