X-Message-Number: 22786 From: Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2003 09:08:54 EST Subject: Cryonics zoning in Boca Dear Cryoneters, I am very disappointed about the Planning and Zoning recommendation vote of 6 to 0 which will be recommending to the city council that they reject the zoning of the Suspended Animation research facility in Boca Raton. Like many of you, I wrote letters to all the city council people, the mayor, and the city manager, requesting their support of the cryonics facility. While it was not possible for me to make the 6 hour trip to Boca for the meeting last night, I agonized over whether my presence might have made a difference somehow, a "tipping point" for the group dynamics of the hearing. It turns out it would not have. Even what surely was articulate and compelling testimony by Bill Falloon, David Shumaker, and Ben Best, surely among our most competent advocates, was a non-issue to the P and Z board. How could a lease--a five year lease--have been signed without securing the zoning requisite? In a brief call I had with Bill Falloon on Wednesday, he said basically, "We thought we had this fixed." Evidently, the additional controversies of Ted Williams and perhaps the CI issues have regenerated additional resistance to cryonics in Boca. I will clear my calendar no matter what to be at the real decision making meeting in Boca in January. In talking with Falloon, he seemed to think this would be the more important meeting, and we will have a meeting with cryonics supporters in the afternoon of the meeting date to get organized. The parasites...excuse me...regulators...seem to have gotten out of control in multiple venues as of late. From the SEC ruining Martha Stewart, to idiots in Michigan regulating CI, to attorneys general attacking WalMart, to NASD jerks causing Rudi Hoffman untold grief over an administrative oversight, to the Boca Raton zoning board... We must develop a more effective "parasite control" in our society, or the real producers of goods and services will be swamped with despair. The "Atlas Shrugged" fiction could become a reality. Best Regards to all...except regulators... Rudi Hoffman Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=22786