There are other businesses as well that have their building paint that is quite visible and that has been peeling for quite some time in other retail areas of the city.

The city should address and resolve this, as I know residents who are cited for having tiny weeds in the cracks of their sidewalks and driveways and for their homes and mainly garage paint that is peeling.

I find it odd and interesting that decisions for more ordinance inspectors and the c & o escrow reworking came out at the same moment. Driven NOT by home-owners but The Board of Realtors. Why all this now? Now, you may reference my statement regarding ‘Ghetto Houses’. As an added clarification that ONE under-mowed lawn under maintained house on the block makes it difficult to close on the houses for sale on said block.

It seems that business owners in our fair city are chomping at the bit to blame Mayor O’Reilly, the City Council, City employees, etc. when the going gets tough, yet want special City privileges and favors or else they’ll pull out. Nice. You’ve seen this game time and time again most recently with a failed commercial real estate baron wannabe ‘dreamer’.

So, the going is getting more tough for real estate. They needed changes for an easier sell and to justify a 6% selling fee. No, my opinion was never to change the enforcement of residential AND commercial maintenance rules in the first place. Make it look like the changes are ‘in response to the citizens needs and requests’ as opposed to a business easing of regulation. Except now, business (real estate) is whining, panicking and changing their minds.

Government isn’t a private business. Never will be. Don’t want it to be. Period.

Anthony

Even though I realize it’s Schemansky for a great reason, growing up here I always still mistakenly call it Elmhurst, which is just easier to remember I guess.

I also noticed last year that no one seemed to even shovel Schemansky and wonder why. Oxford seems to be the busiest, usually with hockey and I’ve never seen anyone free skate on the much smaller rink closer there, as there are 2 rinks there. Penn Vassar is the 2nd largest and I see people playing hockey and free skating there a lot.

It seems unfathomable to me that with Levagood’s outdoor ice rink almost approaching the size of an NFL rink, that the surrounding kids and neighbors don’t ask the city to flood it. This is as close as we can get to when we grew up with those 7 wonderful, outdoor boarded pools that were free, and the current outdoor, non-boarded ones are free too.

The only disappointment was to see where one of the 7 outdoor, boarded ice rinks used to be that were all torn out in the late 60′s to early 70′s when the Adray indoor ice arena, now the DISC was built. But the ground there still has the grooved in area and the large pipe there where they can fill it up with water as the city does regularly at 7 outdoor ice rinks without boards all over west Dearborn. Many friendly people there informed me that the city does not freeze the Levagood Park rink anymore and that baffled me and no one knew the reason why. Does anyone know why the city still fills the outdoor ice rinks at Penn-Vassar, Elmhurst, Oak, Ten Eyck, Tanahill and the 2 at Oxford, yet does NOT fill the one at Levagood???

These rinks do not have the freezer, pipes and boards surrounding them as the original 7 rinks did in other locations, but they are a wonderful free service to Dearborn residents and the city does supply free hockey nets at many of them for us hockey lovers.

The fact that so far we still have all of this and that I still haven’t seen a park that looks trashed in Dearborn, says that up till now, we are lucky to still have these wonderful parks and amenities and to still have them so well maintained.

For informational purposes, could you please tell us the name of the park that is in the condition you describe? I always have noticed that in years past our parks were kept up immaculately, so perhaps the budget cuts may be affecting this as well.