By adamg on Mon., 2/8/2016 - 10:51 am
A City Council committee is scheduled to consider exempting elderly and disabled homeowners from the requirement to shovel their sidewalks at a hearing Tuesday morning.
Councilor Michael Flaherty's Council on Government Operations starts its hearing at 10 a.m. in the council's fifth-floor chambers in City Hall.
Councilor Tito Jackson (Roxbury) proposed the measure due to the health risks associated with snow shoveling.
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How about this
By SwirlyGrrl
Mon, 02/08/2016 - 6:32pm
Paying enough in taxes to cover the cost of the city clearing your sidewalk.
That's the alternative.
Uncleared sidewalks are not an alternative.
How about this
By anon
Tue, 02/09/2016 - 9:20am
The City properly allocates the amount in taxes we already pay to cover the cost of snow removal on the public sidewalks.
If they can provise a "new and improved" web page that's totally unnecessary, if they can float proposals to illunimate the exterior of City Hall at night, if they can send throngs of ISD folks out to ticket people who aren't gullible enough to be duped into maintainign property they don't own and have no legal control over the use of, then they can find a way to clear the PUBLIC sidewalks with their own forces.
Check Boston 311
By anon
Mon, 02/08/2016 - 5:24pm
The City is full of rat bastards who are eager to drop a dime on property owners who haven't shoveled five minutes into a snowstorm.
Rat bastards
By SwirlyGrrl
Mon, 02/08/2016 - 6:34pm
Your assignment: attempt to navigate your neighborhood in a wheelchair and get to the T to get to work after the next snowstorm.
Or you could just calculate out how much it costs our economy when people can't hold a job and have to be on disability because they can't reliably get around because they live amongst people too self-absorbed to live up to their responsibilities.
I'm one of those rat bastards
By anon
Tue, 02/09/2016 - 1:02pm
I'm one of those rat bastards. Want to know why? Because I am sick of taking dixie's in front of my lazy ass fully abled neighbors houses as well as businesses. I don't report it 5 minutes after the storm - I report it after the allotted time.
And yes, we shovel ours down to the pavement and the full sidewalk to boot. We do this for any neighbor that is on vacation or is elderly. That is just common courteously.
I have never heard so many ppl b*tch about clearing snow out in front of their houses. WTH is that about? Is that a new thing? My neighbors won't even shovel out the ramps on the sidewalks. Have you walked down Centre street in W. Roxbury after a storm or even the next day and see the ramps by businesses? Not done nor are 1/2 the sidewalks. Think about being elderly or handicapped and trying to get around. But I guess that would mean thinking about someone other than yourself.
Next issue up for discussion:
By Angry Dan
Mon, 02/08/2016 - 5:33pm
Should the elderly/disabled be allowed to use space savers and vandalize vehicles that violate their marked claims?
There is a space saving scheme already
By SwirlyGrrl
Mon, 02/08/2016 - 5:59pm
[img]http://www.myparkingsign.com/img/md/K/ada-handicap...
They aren't hard to get if you actually have mobility impairments.
Oh Yeah
By BostonDog
Mon, 02/08/2016 - 6:38pm
They aren't hard to get if you DON'T have a disability either.
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