Comment 64152

By Mr. Meister (anonymous) | Posted May 28, 2011 at 17:28:38 in reply to Comment 64141

I never said panhandling was illegal. I said it makes people ill at ease. Most people do not want to deal with it rightly or wrongly that is just the way it is. Most people can even deal with the occasional panhandler but dealing with several in quick succession will put most people off.

No doubt there are some serious moral issues at play here. For a pedestrian zone to work it needs an influx of money like any other commercial zone. No money than the businesses that are there will all close down. Just look at our core today. There is very little money downtown and what do we have? Dollar stores pawn shops and the like. Buildings being ripped down because the owners cannot lease them or sell them. If you are happy with that then nothing needs to change. If you want a different downtown then things must change. One of those changes is the core must start to attract some money. Do you want a pedestrian zone full of vagrants, drugs and sex workers?

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