Dog Shit

I'm using the word shit to drive home the point. Might as well describe it accurately.

White Plains city planners cannot even deal with something as basic as shit. In recent years they have approved THOUSANDS of housing units in downtown. These apartments are all designated as dog friendly, a euphemism to indicate that animals may cohabitate with humans. That's THOUSANDS of additional animals in downtown.

There is only one downtown park: on Canfield between Main and Lake and dogs are prohibited; that's as it should be, keeping the park clean for people. That park is not near the THOUSANDS of newly arrived animals. There is zero dirt, non-concrete space near the four super towers near Main and Mamaroneck.  And what about the Avalon on Barker?  And Bank Street Commons?

Where do all these animals take care of business, dump, shit, ... call it what you will?

Wherever did the city planners think all this dog shitting would occur? At the remotely located dog run on the other side of 287 almost outside the city limits to which a humans must drive their animals? You can hardly find the place.  Not likely.

What were they thinking? Or did they not give it a second thought? The Common Council members do not live in White Plains. They live in the suburbs (OK, the mayor lives downtown but when do you see him walking  around?). They drive to city hall and park in reserved spaces, not in one of the monster parking garages built to make visiting White Plains easier, not for people who live in Connecticut, but for them and their neighbors who live in the suburbs of White Plains, no where near the epicenter of over development.

District based voting is the only way to have any chance of properly planning the urban center. Anything less is ignoring the problem with the system of governing the City of White Plains.