WPCNR CITY HALL CIRCUIT. By John F. Bailey. February 4, 2005: Mayor Joseph Delfino and the Common Council have mutually agreed on fifteen White Plains citizens who will serve on the citizens' committee that will review and make recommendations on the City Comprehensive Plan, beginning with their first meeting, Wednesday,  February 9, at 7 P.M., WPCNR has learned.

The citizens will be introduced at Monday evening's Common Council meeting. WPCNR has learned that the "Reviewing 15" will be, as reported by WPCNR, John Martin and Mary Cavallero, Co-Chairs,  Ann Edwards, Ron Jackson, Louis Trippet, Isabelle Villar, and John Vorperian. They are joined by Patrick Austin, Guy D'Antona, Steve Brown, Virginia Falzarano,  Vito Fragala, Ron Goldstein, Carlos Roskell, and Eli Schoenberg.

The group is comprised of three members of the Council of Neighborhood Associations: D'Antona, Falzarano, Vorperian; Mr. Trippett, a former member of the School Board; Mr. Roskell and Mrs. Cavallero of the Planning Board; Mr. Brown from the the Northend of the city; Ms. Villar from  the Centro Hispano organization; former councilman John Martin, and Ron Jackson, the leading advocate for Winbrook, the city's largest public housing sector.

They will be charged of analysis of the Department of Planning Comprehensive Review submitted by Commissioner of Planning Susan Habel in January.

Speaking for the Citizens Plan Committee, whose ad hoc analysis of the Comprehensive Plan embarrassed the city into rushing out their own review by Ms. Habel. Robert Levine reacted to the  announcement of a newly appointed committee to review the  implementation of the City of White Plains’ 1997 Comprehensive Plan: “We are pleased that the Mayor and the Common Council have responded to  the community’s call for a straightforward and thorough assessment and up-date of the City’s development goals and look forward to participating in the upcoming public engagement.”