Tuesday, January 13, 2015

C-ity hall to C-vs?

So this is old news, but if you haven't heard already the property that city hall is on is going to be sold to developers, which will put a CVS on it. We'll have a new city hall but to be honest, unless it looks like one of these:

the whole community would most likley be dissapointed, because I don't want a city hall that looks like this:

 
But you see, the city hall does need an upgrade and right now it's not looking exactly as nice as I think it could, because it's completley surrounded by parking, is elevated and set too far from the sidewalk, has a very small amount of windows, and offers no plaza, or vegetation or area for possibly gathering after work or hanging out after a council meeting. We don't just want a functional city hall, we want a memorable one. Like if I were to look at this building from the sidewalk, I could say "Oh yeah that's definatley Defuniak Springs". I think that because we are a poor community ( the median household income anually is only $19,000) we force ourselves into a lower standard, but I think we should start expecting more out of the city and ourselves. We pay our taxes and therefore we should have better quality public services. I know this is controversial, but I'd be fine with a tax increase if it meant our city wasn't just getting "the cheapest" or the "reaches minimum functionality". That's why none of the younger people growing up here want to stay here, because the goal of the area is to only have the oppurtunities available here for the lowest possible quality of life that is still functionable, but I say NO MORE. If we as a public want something done, as civil servants the county and city have to do it, that's just how democracy works, if it wasn't we'd be a dictatorship. So, lets say the entire community has voiced their opinions, made requests, spoken out, and had the general will to get this sidewalk on this road, then let there be a sidewalk! I'm completley and udderly fine with paying 5 extra cents on a bag of doritos if it means we get quality healthcare in this area, or a sidewalk, or maybe some kind of bus system. Also these tax cuts in the community are not helping the small businesses that make up the heart of it, it's incentivizing walmart and mcdonalds to come in and chase away the small businesses . Businesses don't expand based off of the $100 they saved on taxes, they expand based on profitability. Also places like google, or apple, law firms or any other professionally-paying company spring up around areas with alot of public investment put into them. But anyways, enough ranting, if the city hall is gonna get bigger, cooller looking and is being placed in the downtown, that's absolutley wonderful. However I wonder what will happen to phishers pharmacy and 24 hr perscriptions when the CVS comes in.

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