Despite a strong overall community sentiment that city money should go to restoring such buildings before they degenerate and become structurally dangerous, the city says it is not in the business of rescuing unsound, privately owned buildings.
These mistakes involve projects that start without official approval, without proper environmental impact assessments and without an assessment of community sentiment, he said, and weak local governments may also be a factor.
The board's vote was advisory — it did not have the power to scrap plans for a center — but it was seen as an important barometer of community sentiment.
"It was almost a case of politicians catching up with community sentiment on that one," Rowland says.
A month after dismissing the ordinance as "political grandstanding" in an interview with The Chicago News Cooperative, Mr. Solis said last week that community sentiment and the stance of the influential Service Employees International Union had prompted his about-face.
"The drop in community sentiment towards coal is quite dramatic for a three month period," Lonergan said.
Community leaning towards a specific topic is computed as the difference between the community sentiment on this topic and the community's average sentiment in our dataset.
In natural language processing community, sentiment classification based on insufficient labeled data is a well-known challenging problem.
iOS 7 is getting a lot of mixed reaction from blogs, critics and the Twitterverse, but it's actually winning over a lot of people, according to polls created by Polar, a mobile polling tool built by Input Factory to gauge user and community sentiment.
"The community sentiment was if you could get some additional tenants, put a coat of paint on the wall, it would be just as good," said Steve Burkholder, who was elected mayor in 1999 largely on a platform of doing something to halt the demise of Villa Italia.
