Here's a story that appeared 4 days ago on AZFamily that sounds way-too-familiar as if it were 'ghost-written' with the usual word-tricks looking to improve or may be. . . the script-writer doesn't know that the word Nana is not a name. In common usage that word usually means Grandmother.
Mesa looking to improve City's appearance by creating new development guidelines
Image of building site at Main Street/Mesa Drive 'City Creek South', a 10-acre smaller scale
version of City Creek Center in Temple Square
Salt Lake City.
MESA,AZ (3TV/CBS 5) - " The City of Mesa may be getting a significant overhaul. City leaders are considering a new set of rules and regulations when it comes to new development. Nana Appiah is Mesa's planning and development director. He said that all commercial, residential and industrial developments will soon be required to follow strict design guidelines to create more appealing, higher quality and longer-lasting homes and buildings."
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OK. sounds good, but why open that handed-out article with this image (above right) where strict design guidelines were controversial to start with no public input from people who live here in Mesa? It was headlined as The Mormon Make-Over of Downtown Mesa and The Temple Transformation. No financial details were ever disclosed to the public.
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"Nana Appiah is Mesa's planning and development director. He said that all commercial, residential and industrial developments will soon be required to follow strict design guidelines to create more appealing, higher quality and longer-lasting homes and buildings." HUH? HE SAID? Pardon me, but it looks like he's reading from a script in this presentation to the Mesa City Council Study Session on 07 November 2019...Appiah spends 2 minutes introducing his support cast and it appears to be the way he gets handled at his public exposures
BLOGGER NOTE: There's also an interview staged outside of City Hall
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"We want to be a city that actually has quality development, and want to have a city that you enter and you feel this is a sense of place."
"Appiah insists they have no intention of taking away Mesa's history and charm. They simply want to incorporate more modern and sustainable designs to revitalize Mesa.
