Northside conflict

Timeline

• 21 March - At a press conference, City Council Leader Camryn Scott announces the Northside Nature Preserve is open for sale to real estate developers (link)
• 11 April - 2,000 protestors gather in Polygon Park, police arrest the five major speakers and organisers at the protest (link)
• 13 June - Sale of the Northside Preserve is approved by a 6-3 vote, to a private conservation interest group, Nature's Trust, effectively killing all debate of development.

Miscellaneous

• Perplex City Council voted 5-4 to open the preserve
• Camryn Scott cast the deciding vote
• only a small fraction of the park will be open for development
• several thousand protestors turned up (out of several million PXC citizens)

Characters Arrested

• Estelle Sedgewick, Academy Senior Fellow
• Maya Shorer and Juno Smythe, two of her graduate students
• Keenan Thoreau, RFD
• Damien Gold, Northside Protection League

Others Present

• Hillary Gilbert (protester)
• PCPD Lieutenant Gordon Sharp

Additional References

• Perplex City Sentinel
  • Letter, 18 April, from Cora Howell (link)
  • Letter, 18 April, from J. Beloc, Earth (link)
  • article, "Dev in Northside Supported, Poll Finds" (link)
  • 13.06.05 Northside Preserve Development Killed (link)