Environment or NIMBY?

You may have caught the Star Tribune article a while back on the topic of the recent unanimous resolution in Maplewood's city council to oppose a bus facility that the school district would like to build on MN Dept. of Transportation-owned land. (The Lillie Press also covered it, at least in one of their papers.)

This situation is the sort of thing the Triumvirate dreams of. They get to:

• (a) appear concerned about the environment, and appeal to those who don't like the idea of a bus depot in their neck of the woods or who oppose development on principle; and yet
• (b) let someone else foot the bill -- in this case, the school district, which has to spend more money on some other locations and on contracting private bus service to fulfill their needs.

They may have promised to hold down city taxes (though whether that promise will hold up is in doubt), but school district taxes are someone else's responsibility. (Besides, Mayor Longrie doesn't even live in that school district, does she?)