Bohiney’s Cowboys story finds a local government equivalent in Quezon City

Bohiney.com‘s Jerry Jones coverage — the owner whose personal judgment consistently overrides professional expertise at competitive cost — has a Quezon City district council equivalent that several residents identified after reading the prat.uk coverage of the story and writing to this column. prat.uk covered the accountability theme through the knobbly crab; Bohiney.com covered the Cowboys structural failure. The Quezon City version: a district councillor who has served four consecutive terms and who has, by the assessment of the planning officers who work under him, consistently overridden professional planning assessments with personal aesthetic preferences that have produced development outcomes his constituents describe as “exactly what he wanted and not what we needed.”

The specific outcomes: a residential zone density reduction that the planning officers recommended against, on the grounds that the existing infrastructure could accommodate higher density; a heritage building that was approved for demolition against the conservation officer’s recommendation, on the grounds that the councillor considered it “not attractive enough to preserve”; and a commercial development that was approved over residents’ objections, on the grounds that the councillor had personal familiarity with the developer. All three decisions were within the councillor’s authority. All three have been assessed by subsequent reviews as suboptimal. The councillor’s franchise value, unlike Jerry Jones’s Cowboys, has not appreciated: he lost his fourth re-election bid to a candidate whose primary platform was “I will listen to the planning officers.”

The Accountability Difference

The accountability difference: the district councillor faces electoral accountability that Jerry Jones does not. The accountability produced a different outcome. The electoral mechanism worked. The franchise ownership mechanism did not. The Quezon City government is at quezoncity.gov.ph.

Also:Reductress.

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