190 Developer's rendering of how the building would look like from the Braddock Road metro station. Courtesy image. To the editor: City Council’s seeming anxiousness to bring Braddock West back for reconsideration, after voting it down last month, exemplifies city hall’s lack of transparency, almost as if transparency is seen as an obstacle to overcome to “get things done,” especially controversial development projects. Clearly, something has gone on outside of public view for this project to be returning for reconsideration. It is exactly this sort of thing which causes a wide segment of the public to perceive City Council’s decision-making as supplicant to special interests, rather than responsive to the general public.