White Plains CitizeNetReporter - Should the Open Space Recreation District Ordinance Be Passed?

WPCNR MR. AND MRS. AND MS. WHITE PLAINS VOICE. October 3, 2012: With the closing of the Open Space Recreation District hearing Monday evening, the fate of the ordinance, which has receivcd very little community support from citizens outside the neighborhood effected (along Ridgeway Street, adjacent the defunct Ridgeway Golf Club and the still-operating Westchester Hills Golf Club, the council has to decide whether to revise it or pass it, or conveniently ignore it. Considering the lack of support the measure got in hearing two Monday night, and the all-too-possible lawsuits if the ordinance is passed (a threatened one from the French American School of New York, and the possibility of one from Westchester Hills Golf Club), the Council might still pass it. In a nutshell the ordinance exacts setbacks from the edge of the property of 100 feet, effectively making it almost impossible to build out the present buildings on the property; it allows building of 58 homes on the property, and preserves the rest of the property as open space, and suggests a possible usage by a sports complex with ballfields and tennis courts and an indoor facility. It was suggested on the part of the Gedney Association President that the ordinance was not the answer, that a new comprehensive open space management plan be developed by the city for all remaining open space, private and city owned in the city. What does everybody think about this ordinance? Vote at the right.


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