City Councilor Michael Ross wants to try, following the fatal fall of Shawn Dow from an Allston rooftop earlier this month.
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City Councilor Michael Ross wants to try, following the fatal fall of Shawn Dow from an Allston rooftop earlier this month.
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Ban Banning
By jmr76
Wed, 11/28/2007 - 1:42pm
Can't we just ban the banning of things? If we banned the banners from banning, I think we'd all be happy!
Poor City Council
By Lucky
Wed, 11/28/2007 - 1:47pm
The poor things, they have no power and no vision, so all they are left with is proposing meaningless things like this.
It is already illegal to use a roof for these purposes unless they have roofs that meet the requirments of the building department.
You don't need to ban sun bathing to stop people from playing soccer games on roofs. Its already against the law!
City Council make my head go "ouch"
Hmmmm....mixed feelings about this:
By independentminded
Wed, 11/28/2007 - 1:54pm
On the one hand, it can be fun to have barbecues, dancing parties or whatever on the rooftops, but yet I think that the idea of playing full-scale soccer or other ball games or having really wild, drunken parties on rooftops is a recipe for disaster, imho.
First of all, the average apartment building rooftop is probably way too fragile for soccer-playing, and, without something such as a wall or sturdy iron railing on the rooftop to prevent these kind of horrific falls from happening while students are partying, dangers can and do abound.
Maybe what the city should do is to consider having iron railings or half-sized walls built on the rooftops of apartment buiildings to prevent disasters from happening.
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And besides
By Gareth
Wed, 11/28/2007 - 2:13pm
Imagine what a pain in the neck it would be to have to run down three flights of stairs to get that botched header.
Spank the banners on
By Anonymous
Wed, 11/28/2007 - 1:55pm
Spank the banners on rooftops!
Hehe.
By independentminded
Wed, 11/28/2007 - 1:58pm
Yeah.....right!!
Keep the Roof Parties
By bostnkid
Wed, 11/28/2007 - 3:35pm
Its called thinning the herd.
Banned from the roof
By Jay Levitt
Wed, 11/28/2007 - 3:47pm
The proposed ordinance...would ban people from rooftops unless they’re on a permitted roof deck
Ten bucks says this ends up accidentally making it illegal to build a permitted roof deck.
Political Bull
By Anonymous
Wed, 11/28/2007 - 5:37pm
Instead of spending their energy in tryin to Ban rooftops - the city should spend their energy in finding out what REALLY happened up there that night.
Sounds like the politicians is trying to get pointers with the public by suggesting banning and try to put band-aid on this tragedy. They need to look into what caused Shawn to fall in the first place.
I COMPLETELY agree. I know
By Anonymous
Wed, 11/28/2007 - 11:27pm
I COMPLETELY agree. I know almost everyone who was there that night, and the "wild, drunken" party was actually about 20 kids who were just hanging INSIDE until crashers came and ruined it. There were barely any people on the roof that night. So no one understands how this could have happened and I can't believe that the city is dropping this case so quickly.
AGREED! None of this fits
By anonymous
Thu, 11/29/2007 - 1:44am
AGREED!
None of this fits together. We all want to know what really happened that night. There are SO many questions left unanswered.
This case CANNOT and WILL NOT be dropped and just dismissed as "accidental" with so many gaps in the case.
Rest in peace, Shawn. We all miss you down here. Come visit, will ya?
rooftop ban council meeting this Tuesday
By litchik
Thu, 11/29/2007 - 5:06pm
The City Council is taking this up Tuesday at 2:30 p.m. You have good arguments against this move. Bring them to City Hall.
Here is a link to the text of the proposal:
http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=ddx2kbgq_72nn5h5n
Hope to see some of you there.
my cousin
By Anonymous
Mon, 12/10/2007 - 1:56pm
First off let me start by saying that Shawn was my cousin. Secondly, I'd like to say that the way this case is being carried out gives us, as the family, no hope that we will ever know what happened that night. Which is hard to deal with at times. It is coming up on the one month marker and I would really like some answers instead of 'accidental' and all this bullshit from people who have no compassion for anyone but themselves.
I miss you Shawn.
03/06/88-11/17/07
[[In Loving Memory]]