Northside conflict

Timeline

• 21-MAR-05 - At a press conference, City Council Leader Camryn Scott announces the Northside Nature Preserve is open for sale to real estate developers (link)
• 11APR-05 - 2,000 protestors gather in Polygon Park, police arrest the five major speakers and organisers at the protest (link)
• 13-JUN-05 - 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

References

• Perplex City Sentinel
  • article, 21-MAR-05 "City Opens Northside" (link)
  • article, 11-APR-05 "Five Arrested During Northside Protest" (link)
  • Letter, 18 April, from Cora Howell (link)
  • Letter, 18 April, from J. Beloc, Earth (link)
  • article, 20-APR-05 "Dev in Northside Supported, Poll Finds" (link)
  • article, 15-MAY-05 "View from Earth: Urban Boundaries" (link)
  • article, 13-JUN-05 "Northside Preserve Development Killed" (link)