Yes! As a park! Come on, it's a great idea.
Open space on roofs of apartment buildings and municipal garages. Saturday, January 30, 2016 With just a little imagination we can substantially expand the amount of open space in urban downtown White Plains...
The City of White Plains should require all new residential apartment buildings to have green and recreational roofs. Any existing regulations that might inhibit such addition of this to existing buildings should be reviewed and reconsidered...
The Trump residential apartment condominium at the City Center has on its roof space atop the public parking garage: tennis and basketball courts and what appears to be a small golf hole. Use Google Earth to check for yourself...
The City has many municipal parking garages scattered around town to serve the many multiple lane roads that slash through downtown. Obviously each garage has an open top level, which could be made into a green roof at the very least or more imaginatively into a public open space, some with recreational elements.
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Building department bureaucracy reply to roof use. Thursday, February 25, 2016
"A roof is not space(d) that is to be accessed by anyone except for landlord representatives or service personnel." ...
How about reviewing that policy? I've sent the following link to CC members:
http://white-plains-ny.blogspot.com/2016/01/open-space-on-roofs-of-apartment.html
I suggest you read it and look at the photo. Making use of at least some roofs makes a lot of sense. How long have they been off limits? It sounds like a bureaucracy dictated policy. Call if you'd like to discuss.
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This post of 2/17/18 will also be sent to Common Council members.
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