Change on Downtown Design Review Committee?
The city council agenda includes an appointment of Stan Carroll to the committee to replace Anthony McDermid. Discuss amongst yourselves
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Is it a common practice to reappoint commissioners and if so why isn’t that being done, did Mayor Mick want to replace him, or was Anthony no longer interested in being involved with this stuff.
Wasn’t Anthony added to the DDRC for good mix? There are developers, real estate people, and business people on it. Are architects no longer welcome on the DDRC? I guess they ask too many questions.
OK, OK. Moron of the day is.. (for not having any familiarity of Stan Carroll, then forming a very strong opinion based on a false accusation)
Continuity is a good and bad thing for committees, just like elected officials. Too long, and you might get complacent. Too much turnover, and the ordinance is too new to the members and can’t be properly upheld. HP Conmission ordinance says members must be off the Commission after 3 terms (and then could come back after sitting out). Not sure about DDRC.
If Anthony has to step down for whatever reason then I can’t think of a better person to replace him than Stan Carroll.
Stan Carroll is a very well regarded architect, devoted to downtown, and also is a very accomplished metal artist whose work includes the sculpture outside of Broadway Kerr Garage and the conference room in the Momentum Building in the Flatiron district. He is part of the team on the skydance bridge to be built over the new I-40
Any chance that McDermid might have recommended Carroll to the panel before he tendered his resignation? (Not that there’s anything wrong with that; I hold Mr Carroll in high regard.)
CAPTCHA: “in longhand.” The only way to resign.
DANG…and here I was all ready to jump all over this…wasn’t it Anthony McDermid that made the “blood on our hands” remark (and then ironically voted for the demolition)? If so, was thinking his resignation/replacement might be due to his comments and someone at City Hall got their feathers ruffled. Such a waste of a good conspiracy…LOL
Like McDermid, Stan Carroll is a good, local, licensed architect. However, he mostly practices metalwork rather than architecture.
Since the committee mostly deals with architecture-related issues, Stan would be a perfet fit and would also avoid potential conflicts of interest.
Stan is a terrific choice. He obviously has a great design aesthetic. He is also very smart and has a great deal of insight about downtown development issues.
I’d like to see a landscape architect on the board. Many of the issue concerning this body fall under the purview of landscape architecture. The board seems a little heavy on the architects. Perhaps a planner would be a good addition as well.
Adding onto Steve’s comments, Stan is also known for creating the “O” bike racks and the Deep Deuce and Bricktown Ballpark art bikeracks commissioned by Urban Neighbors.
New here so who are they?