Comments on: Fire at Courthouse Dry Cleaning Shop

By: Konis

Konis — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 20:36:10 +0000

They have way more than 10 spots.

By: Daughter

Daughter — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 20:22:16 +0000

This shop belongs to my parents! I’m thankful to the people who have offered their prayers to help us recover from this! Thank you and I hope no else suffers an unexpected thing like this!

By: drax

drax — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 19:13:33 +0000

A parking garage? No thanks. This county is not in the business of encouraging more driving, and that’s a good thing. Better to spend it on ways to keep us from needing cars in the first place.

You go right ahead and do your little poll if you want.

By: Konis

Konis — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 19:07:57 +0000

Actually they have more than 10 spots. They have about 10 spots directly in front of the police department. About 5 parking spots on the other side of courthouse road and about 10-15 spots in a lot over on that side. They also added about 5 spots on Courthouse Road that used to be meter parking. They also have parking on Troy St. Seems like plenty for on duty police officers. The problem I have noticed is police vehicles just sitting on the street for days at a time.

By: Question

Question — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 18:40:42 +0000

By Courthouse “home owner” do you mean you are currently incarcerated in the jail there? Because your level of discourse seems on par.

By: Community Member

Community Member — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 18:30:38 +0000

I’m a community member too. And I think parks are great. Fabulous asset offered by Arlington. Let me guess, we should stop building new schools too, because there is a parking problem next to the police station?

By: Buck Futter

Buck Futter — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 18:07:10 +0000

I think they could put a parking structure where the surface lot is in courthouse, and maybe tie in some retail with it. It would serve everyone from cops to defendants to citizens to visitors. How much money should be spent on it? How about less than the $100mil spent on the pool and homeless shelter. Im sure if you poll the residents and prop/biz owners, you know, the ones that fund everything, they would prefer a parking garage to a homeless shelter. Im a courthouse home owner by the way, so I am a member of the community. And since you asked, I think building any new parks should be put on hold until the budget shortfall is addressed. Now I’ll wait for the death threats to roll in….

By: Josh S

Josh S — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 17:51:45 +0000

You’re talking to someone who calls themselves “Buck Futter.” What are the odds that they have anything worthwhile to say?

By: Mitt Romney

Mitt Romney — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 17:33:53 +0000

Police cars are people, my friend!

By: fire hydrant

fire hydrant — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 16:16:36 +0000

I am the fire hydrant that was across the building from the fire last night. As you can see by the photo link above a police car was parked in front of me. You can also see that there is a kink in the fire house….this is a huge safety concern for firefighters working inside the structure. This is not an adequate water supply for firefighters working on the fire ground. I do know that if this were an evolution in the fire academy the driver would have FAILED b/c of the kink….this limits the water SIGNIFICANTLY…..

please email the chief of police, because YOU citizens would have gotten a nice fat fine/ticket…..AND most firefighter will break your window, put the hose through the window and continue on with their job

here is his email address: dscott@arlingtonva.us

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