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Two weeks after the City Council determined that entrenched, unique parking protection for one block of Farragut Drive temporarily would be held in abeyance until a study is completed, neighborhood activist Les Greenberg remains convinced three Councilmen allegedly violated ethical standards during the process.
(Attached is a letter Mr. Greenberg sent last week to City Atty. Carol Schwab, citing his specific accusations.)
It is not known how or if the status of Grace Lutheran’s petition to allow its members to park on the cited Farragut block would be affected in the unlikely event any or all are judged guilty.
Nevertheless, Mr. Greenberg, an attorney himself, persists in what appears to be a one-man campaign to preserve the purity of Farragut’s sui generis restriction. For 14 hours every weekday, from 8 am. To 10 p.m., non-residents are forbidden to park in the 10700 block, around the corner from Grace Lutheran.
Mr. Greenberg told the newspaper that Councilmen Andy Weissman, Jeff Cooper and Mehaul O’Leary, the vice mayor, should have disclosed their relationships with the parties involved before participating in the review and subsequent ruling on Grace Lutheran’s petition.
For the first time, Mr. Greenberg distinguished his priorities. He said Mr. Weissman is his principal concern, Messrs. O’Leary and Cooper being secondary.
“We wanted the three of them to out all of the information (about their relationships) out,” he said. “Like Cooper said, ‘I’ve got all these relationships.’ I don’t know what they are. Could they have an influence? I don’t know until he tells us.”
Mr. Greenberg believes Mr. Weissman should have recused himself, but he was less clear about the other two.
“A proper recusal decision can be made only after relationship information has been fully disclosed,” he said. “The relationship need not only be financial, just something that could influence a decision. Failure to disclose has negative implications.”
(To be continued)
