Your endeavor may be a laudable one with great promise...but you have got to come to the realization that THE CITY is the taxpayer. Although you have to ASK the Commission for permission, it is the citizen who pays the tab.

We have been shortchanged for the last 10 years or more on infrastructure improvements with OUR $$$$, so, in these tight times, the room for more indiscriminate spending is simply not there.

Please....continue with your private efforts to raise capital for your project....but give the taxpayer a break.