Quote Originally Posted by rutlev View Post
I'm with getting the blight removed from Michigan Ave. and other major avenues and taking steps to go after owners of the buildings downtown that are raining bricks on people. the City properties need to be removed, repaired first. Almost all the older frame houses in Detroit need some kind of repair and paint, but, to issue blanket violations and give out unreasonable deadlines just doesn't make sense.
The deadlines are unreasonable, I'll agree with that. The rest is the same silly argument as bitching about a parking ticket because the city still has crime. Simply put, if people aren't responsible for themselves [[whether they are criminals, parking scofflaws) or their property they should face consequences.

On one hand people complain how the city looks, then when they try to do something people complain that it looks worse somewhere else in the city.

Let's praise students or ignore them when they have a 1.0 GPA since there are other kids with a 0.0 GPA. Because that is the same tired argument being made.