Candidates Debate takeaway:

Boring unimaginative questions and worse answers.

More affordable housing (apartments), which means nowhere near the candidates, who live in houses.

Affordable apartments for police officers and firefighters because they don't get paid enough money to work and live in White Plains. The obvious solution is to pay them more but then people in the houses would be paying extra, not developers. Plus, paying them more means they can live where they want, including a house.

No tax increases. Make developers pay for affordable apartments, which means pass along to market rate renters, who are not considered White Plains residents by people living in houses. The purpose of those renters is to subsidize the people living in houses

Green and sustainable but downtown parking free for residents so that people living in houses can drive and park downtown in ten minutes.

Have the malls replace some retail stores with services, whatever that means, and supply meeting space. Oh, and be sure to have enough income to pay your taxes to subsidize the people living in houses.

Bask in their humanitarianism.

Did these four Democratic candidates for the three open seats on the Common Council just arrive from another planet? Their thoughts are impractical, unrealistic and contradictory. Get real.

Have any of them ridden the Bee-Line bus this millennium? Live on a street with sidewalks?

In White Plains people living in houses want downtown to be a place for their amusement and only a ten minute drive away. But they don't actually live with the consequences of their decisions. The people living in the downtown apartments do.