CNA: White Plains Council of Neighborhood Associations

Like the WP Common Council, CNA is house heavy. Check the member organizations:

http://wpcna.org/

Five are in the Gedney area alone. No wonder they dwell on nonsense like Railside and Orchard Street, which affect a handful of houses that border the respective properties. Every condo and coop in WP should be members. Meetings should be held in a location that does not require a surveyor to determine whether it is within WP.

The CNA constitution (think they take themselves a little too seriously) states: "The boundaries of neighborhood associations as filed by the CNA with the City of White Plains
Department of Planning shall be the official map of the CNA." That's like a company approving a labor union so that it has someone to negotiate with.

My condo, Jefferson Place, has 282 homes but does not fit into any of the city's predefined areas. We do, however, pay taxes.

White Plains needs one citizen, one vote. Both the city government and its official neighborhood entity represent houses, not people. The city's devotion to cars reflects that. Move 'em, park 'em. Get in and out of downtown as efficiently as you can. You don't live there. You live in the suburbs of White Plains in almost Scarsdale and almost Harrison. Who cares what it's like to actually live downtown?