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‘Planning’
at its Dumbest??---
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Downtown zoning
to include all the CN lands A real wind fall
for whomever buys it from CN Ask Council
what it was thinking about – hopefully this was not ‘planned’ |
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I will go
into more detail later |
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The ‘Downtown’
Development Permit Area was modified sometime between its earlier version (above)
and July 6th (left) for what is included – both up McBride and
farther out Park Avenue – but more significantly all the CN yard was included --- so if
passed it will be pre-zoned as downtown commercial – a bonanza for anyone
wanting to purchase the property and a very dumb move on the cities part ---
Remember the controversy in early 1990s over building the condominiums down
there? Wouldn’t even be
any discussion now – just what type of verandas they might have – not if they
were to be built etc (more later) Now we’ll see who
buys the property to get an idea if poor planning or very shrewd businessman
pulling strings behind scene (not that that would ever happen in PR) |
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Perhaps they
were wanting to only make one trip to dump and the metal pipes would not qualify
for recycling rates --- or maybe they just dumped it somewhere along roads |
Nice
Neighbors – tore down the ‘wall’ beneath their stairs --- and deposited the
metal pipes next door to be dealt with by someone else |
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Summer flowers
now already thinking of fall as prepare seeds etc |
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The
light was beautiful on these flowers – but picture colors don’t pay any
justice to the different nuances |
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Harbinger of
things to come? |
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I
have earlier put June 2009
into context of last 5 years --- but here is the sleeping elephant in room
--- Not only was June 2005 dry it was hottest too (took less hating to keep
at room temperature of 18C. I
suspect when global warming again kicks in (we have been in cool phase last
few years) – June 2005 will be the new norm for Hecate and North Coast |
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Year |
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‘Heating’ |
cooling |
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precip |
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2009 |
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163.1 |
0 |
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98.0* |
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2008 |
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218.5 |
0 |
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108.5* |
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2007 |
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175.6 |
0 |
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52.0* |
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2006 |
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156.4 |
0 |
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76.0E |
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2005 |
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137.1 |
3 |
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22.5 |
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More Fish
Politics at City Council |
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Joy
introduced this for Council support --- idea presumably is to sidetrack the
PNCIMA thrust of DFO and get ‘local management’ done by your friendly fishing
industry --- who will presumably make their own rules and police themselves I
exaggerate – but deserves more discussion (later) – UFAWU idea is how to get
local involvement (control?) of ‘their’ fisheries etc In
the words of PE Trudeau – ‘because fish swim’ --- is again what is wrong with
the idea from Ecosystem perspective as opposed to user groups perspective –
more later |
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Here is the
real growth industry on North Coast – Alberta Sporties coming to extract fish
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Good
bye rockfish and halibut etc – it is only a matter of time until local
populations wiped out |
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Created by LG on 9/7/2009
Last updated on Thursday, July 09, 2009