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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can somebody explain to me why the county will be clearing snow from low income and minority areas? Why this group and the other group? They cite high traffic and accidents but it feels more like they don’t think we are capable of understanding or following laws so they’re just going to lower the bar for us (I’m Latina).

This bothers me because special exemption bills and laws like this end up creating resentment towards all of our groups.

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https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/government/county-will-be-required-to-clear-snow-from-up-to-40-miles-of-sidewalks/?fbclid=IwAR2FbfodmMH-KNxI0cI-awH1Sag0tpU8G21IKYnoPMNBPibB7iqBHNf_Y-0

The link to the story.[/quote]

The article states that there are many more pedestrian fatalities in those areas and they want to try to keep it safe.[/quote]

This is what I don’t understand. So instead of enforcing the law, where you have 24 hours to clear the sidewalk, they just threw their hands up in the air and said oh well will do it ourselves?

What does it make sense to me is that people don’t clear their sidewalks all over the county. You have lots of kids walking in the middle of the road on snowy days all over the county.

And I understand what you’re saying but that bar just continues to be lowered and lowered and the resentment rises. It’s not good to expect less from people.[/quote]
This is a direct subsidy to slum lord property owners in low income areas and I would suspect that in looking more closely at the bill, it will also include snow clearing for rich developers as well, such as clearing all of downtown Silver Spring for Peterson.

What’s unfathomable here is that not that long ago Hans Riemer took it upon himself to increase penalties for people who don’t clear their sidewalks and now here he is doing this. So if I don’t personally shovel snow I get a hefty fine thanks to Riemer, but the county will shovel all of Peterson sidewalks for free. [/quote]

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