Ladies and gentlemen of this council, we are here today to discuss passing a law banning street games. Fairfax city passed one last week under the pressure of the police. I hope we here would come to a better agreement then those of Fairfax, city. This would be an injustice to our children and to this community if we were to pass a law banning all street games. If you look around here in this council many of you might have played in front of your own homes. You might remember playing stick ball, basketball, hop scotch, and jump rope. You may recall the great times we had. Our neighbors would come out to watch us, as they sat and gossiped and got to know each other. It felt like a family. Parents did not worry about where we were, we were not hanging out in front of the 7-eleven or at the mall, smoking pot, stealing from our parent’s liquor cabinet.
Many of you are concerned about the safety of our children, especially with dr
Are we really concerned about children in the street or are we concerned that drivers can not drive and read simple street signs to avoid kids? If you are concerned about traffic and the children getting hit by cars, then I agree to an extent. There are places it would not be appropriate to allow children to play. I would not suggest that they play on the beltway or on 66. I am suggesting that there are many neighborhood streets and cul-de-sacs where it is reasonably safe for children to play and are not major threats to traffic flow. So why punish the children, because we do not trust adult drivers or because we are failing to properly regulate them.
ivers rushing to get through the increase traffic. You have also voiced concerns about the noise levels when children are playing outside.
The other concern you mentioned was the increase in the noise when kids get together and play. Are we really going to punish our children because there are a few who
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