“I’m calling for an end to the aldermanic prerogative, the aldermanic privilege which gives an alderman almost unilateral power over things like zoning, permits and we think that is too much power to concentrate in any one person’s hands,” Chico said. “To have the power of life and death over a project and we don’t really know the reasons many times is a problem, and I think that goes right to the heart of beginning to put our city back on the rails in terms of ethics.”