Recently my property has been the whipping boy of the hostile Logan City parkstrip takeover. Like many Logan Officials, you may be saying “This is old news, get over it lady”. Sure, it is old news, but it effects all city residents. Yes, that means you whose properties are in compliance. You may be asking “why, what does this absurd issue have to do with me?” The answer is two part.
First, if you live in Logan City your paying for this project through your taxes, or more importantly, witnessing the waste of federal tax allocations that should go for neighborhood improvement projects. At a critical economic time, our city sees fit to waste federal tax dollars on removing concrete deemed ugly and unsafe instead of fixing a myriad of community issues such as: repairing unsafe sidewalks, road crossings and curbs for pedestrians of all abilities; installing caution signs, lowering speed limits, creating sidewalks near schools and city parks where they do not currently exist, and treating or felling unsafe diseased City trees that threaten pedestrians and drivers alike. My list goes on and on. What are your neighborhood improvement concerns that are not being met due to this wasteful asinine project?
Second, law abiding Logan citizens are inevitably left to pick up the slack of poor decision making by City Officials. In the past a blind eye was turned on single family zoned neighborhoods, and these neighborhoods illegally became multi-family. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for reclaiming single family neighborhoods, but mandating when where and how single families such as myself can access their private properties by removing concrete, screams hedge law to me! Which are we to live by Logan City Officials, parking hedge laws or zoning laws? Why not start enforcing the original zoning law of single family dwellings instead of achieving those measures through hedge laws? Slowly but surely our national, state or city governments as in this case, are creating hedge laws around original laws that should have been upheld in the first place.
As Logan City residents we need to be present and aware of laws, or hedges of laws, that our elected Officials tend to ignore, enforce or create. Avoid turning a blind eye to local politics, or soon a new hedge law could infringe upon you and your family as it has mine.
Signed,
Jennifer Perkins
I've never been able to understand their logic of thinking that cars lining up and down our streets makes our city look so much more pretty. It's so much more dangerous too! Since we have to park the truck on the road now I almost get in a wreck twice a week! ANGRY!!
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