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March 27, 2007
Parks Produces Possible Pricey Poop Prosecutions
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| What could be the most important discussion
about Bidwell Park in the last few years was postponed because of late
notice to a private property owner. I hope to post on that topic later. But in the meantime the Bidwell Park and Playground Commission had a busy night. For instance, Park Commissioner Tom Barrett was appointed to the CARD Master Plan Citizen Advisory Committee (which I take part in). On a side note Barrett is also "The Sustainable Guy" during his hour long radio show on KZFR. So he'll be at all of the sustainability "Task Force" meetings. This is great, because Tom and I are great friends, and can now spend much more time emailing each other. In other news a proposal to ban riding bikes at the downtown plaza was forwarded to the City Council. This will expand the existing ban on riding bikes on sidewalks to include the plaza. Bike racks are to be replaced with industrial shoe racks. Also banned are skateboards, hover cars, M1 Abrams main battle tanks, ocean liners, and red giant stars in danger of going super-nova. It's been a good year for bans. But the biggest news of the night came under the category of Dachshund droppings. An upper limit of $1000 and 133.33 hours of community service will be applied to people caught not picking up their canine's creations. Commissioners Walker and Lucas fought a brave, and somewhat effective, fight to ensure reasonable penalties for producing unwanted Chihuahua chocolates. First offense is $25, second offense is $50 and 6.7 hours community service, all they way up to the maximum penalty previously mentioned. In reality very few citations will be issued for Labrador logs, and it's doubtful that anyone will get the $1,000 fine. The actual fine amount and final approval still has to go before the City Council. Both the bike and poop discussion were in front of the commission at the request of Councilor Tom Nickell. I decided to attend this Park Commission meeting as opposed to watching on TV, which may have been a mistake. I may have nightmares related to the Bidwell Park Master Management Plan tonight. |
Posted by Lon at March 27, 2007 12:00 AM