A public health nursing system and a series of sliding scale fee clinics.

Nice playgrounds for kids to play on.

Enforce rule on spitting on sidewalks. (WHoever thinks Seattle is a great place must be casual about this..)

Lots of trees especially in urban blight areas.

Yes, public bathrooms, male, female and some unisex but they must probably have attendants and/or security these days.

No tolerance for drugs.

Community service with teeth in it for criminals.

Good lighting, especially in areas with crime problems.

No flourescent lights (at least the old nasty ones) in public buildings like libraries, city hall etc.

On the bandwagon with solar and wind energy, incentives for alternative energy in new or retrofit construction.

Way less building out of wood. Penalties for building out of wood in places that have hurricane and flood high potential. And fire.

24 hour a day places like Safeway, Starbucks, etc.

Clean and decent public terminals for trains, busses..again, have you seen the Amtrack filthy mess in Seattle or Greyhound? Awful awful awful.

City or state run shelters for single women and single men, basic, dormitory style if necessary. Nicer ones where children are involved. Places homeless can go to get food. High security and segration by type of problem...alcoholics go in one, drug addicts in another, mentally ill in another with staff that would handle their needs and protect others from them and them from each other if necessary. mg