Good morning.
Thursday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of 72. Sunrise is 5:16 and sunset is 8:36 for 15 hours 20 minutes of daylight. The moon is a waxing crescent with 16.9 percent of its visible disk illuminated.
Whitewater’s Community Development Authority meets at 5:30 PM.
On this day in 1778, the British Army abandons Philadelphia.
Whitewater is a city of over nine square miles of land and water. The municipal government owns some portion of that land. Of the portion of the land that the municipal government owns, some portion has been without any useful purpose (unless one considers vacant and ignored land a useful purpose).
At its meeting on June 16, the Whitewater Common Council sensibly and without dissent approved the sale of a half-acre parcel to Bethel House, a 501(c)(3) charity, to build its second property providing transitional-housing assistance for families otherwise facing homelessness.
This is easily a beneficial use of the property. The property had no use whatever before, but now this land may be improved for a community need.
The land is not new, so to speak — what’s new is an increased willingness of the local government to support efforts, both for-profit and nonprofit, to develop what was otherwise neglected or ignored for decades.
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Upcoming posts (in no decided order): A Whitewater Comparative Analysis, Whitewater’s Workforce, Outcome-Driven Argumentation, and a New Ethics Ordinance.
A sharp-looking American Kestrel greets you: