DEVELOPMENT: Councilman: Elected, powerful community boards would be a disaster

See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Lauren GillBrooklyn PaperHe votes nay!A Brooklyn activist group’s idea of turning the city’s 59 community boards into elected bodies with real power would just result in expensive elections for panels that would use their clout to veto any changes to their neighborhoods, says a former board member turned councilman.“You can’t give community boards power because nothing would get done,” said former Community Board 18 member and