It's the Marquette Neighborhood Association, Not Authority

It looks like the Willy Street Co-op is going to have its new driveway on Jenifer Street after all. "City staff had no authority to deny the Co-op’s request for the Jenifer Street driveway since it met all ordinance requirements."

However, this did not sit well with Fae Dremock of the Marquette Neighborhood Association.

The Coop is becoming nothing more than a Greenwash medium box store with big box dreams and big box arrogance.
The site is theirs, the land is theirs, and they apparently think-- and the city confirms--that they can go against the opposition of the neighborhood associations, the interest and safety of the neighbors in the immediate vicinity, and guidelines of the the[sic] neighborhood traffic plans to do whatever they want that is not explicitly against ordinances.

I take her point because there was a lot of opposition to the plan but I think that it's also arrogant to imply that the Marquette Neighborhood Association is the ultimate authority here. The MNA is not the final authority on anything except internal MNA business. The tone here comes across as "How dare they cross the MNA!" as opposed to expressing regret or sadness at the notion that the Co-op is being a bad neighbor. The site belongs to the Co-op as does the land and it is acting within the bounds of the law and the laws are made by publicly elected officials whereas the MNA is a private organization. So why should it get to boss others around?