At one point in the May 20 village board meeting, Village President Anan Abu-Taleb described three Oak Park business strips as each unique — Oak Park Avenue from Van Buren to Garfield, OP Ave. south of South Boulevard, and Lake Street. This in a general discussion of zoning variances and how to give them.
This gave pause to Trustee Ray Johnson, sitting to his immediate right. “Does this mean applying different standards to each?” he asked.
Abu-Taleb paused a fraction, then asked, “Why not?”
To which, Johnson, taken aback, replied, “That would cause confusion.”
Here, in businessman Abu-Taleb’s first full board meeting as president, was the evening’s stark contrast between and entrepreneurial mentalities.
As entrepreneur, you look for your opportunities and you seize them. As organizer, you bring order out of chaos or what looks like it. The one optimistically (some would say myopically) moves ahead. The other cautiously (some…
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