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Sea, land, river

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Community

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July 12^th	We See
	From RCMP circus to DPAs

Rumour is that Empress and ‘Universal’ sold

Also that present Furniture store moving as a result – another furniture store will move in I am told

The Ocean is a variable place --- changing from year to year or decade to decade depending on analytical perspective

DFO recently put up State of Pacific Ocean 2008 --- and it helps ‘explain’ local events

Perhaps the local weather like rain fall & temperatures (thus hot & dry in 2005 --red arrow left & cold, wet of 2008 onward) --- but also the ‘politics of fish’ which Councillor Joy Thorkelson brings to almost every Council meeting

---- The same UFAWU leader who got DFO to change salmon fishing plans in 2006 by using political pressure --- and has tried to use 2009 Council in similar manner ---- Thus attempting to maximize short term jobs at expense of long term salmon sustainability ---See this 2008 article by Terry Glavin in SUN for this kind of thinking and how it killed the Grand Banks Cod fishery etc

Not evident why DPA would include the soon to be abandoned and sold CN lands --- Most the buildings etc treated in DPA could not be built here under present zoning --- Here Thorkelson has the right idea – we should look at the waterfront holistically and see how best to use it before jump into anything like changing the zoning etc

Mea Culpa

I stated earlier that zoning changed for CN lands below Mall to C1—thus their inclusion in DPA etc – But apparently not so – still remains M1 according to latest zoning maps on City web site

The RR station etc are part of heritage PR – the Kwinitsa station suffering from extreme neglect

At philosophical level --- why do Canadian Taxpayers support this Circus approach to law enforcement? --- How much does it cost on a yearly basis? And what are the benefits? Is this really ‘our’ history?

RCMP Musical Rides come to town and leave—a mess

Maybe the rains will clear off all that poo from jogging track

	Hope no little leaguers want to play on this baseball field anytime soon ---- And speaking of ‘ruts’ – how much will this cost local taxpayers? Didn’t ‘we’ guarantee the costs and the repairs?

I will return to this later

CFO argues local transit costing us 240T$ per year – I will comment 40T using his own annual report and audit etc

And note too how the zoning and DPA are both un-green --- favouring cars and parking spaces over transit and pedestrians – more later but the worst aspect is that commercial properties can let City take over parking responsibility for only 2T$ --- should be 200$ per year I will suggest

Created by LG on 12/7/2009

Last updated on Sunday, July 12, 2009

NATURE

PEOPLES

For earlier materials see Table of Contents

We See

I will return to this later