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Above Jean
Martin asks questions about fines for dumping cardboard etc at City Landfill
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Disastrous economic outlook for
canneries? ·
Variance Permits as future legal maze ·
Making a living in Rain Forest ·
Hoteliers and subsidies ·
Extra Foods update ·
Ships from Canola to Coal |
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Of Course there is
fish politics here – last July
there were protests at DFO by local fishers because they wanted more of the fish
– Canneries with huge intercepts of many different stocks is a sunset
industry – especially with climate change reducing the ‘natural’ abundance---
and while odd year pinks are usually plentiful – Even year have not been
historically – thus no ‘disaster’ there (see
DFO page on last years fishery –Especially Pink Story) |
‘Just a
disaster’ |
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Thorkelson reported
on current fishery/ cannery season, hoping to have ‘current economic outlook’
put on next meeting’s agenda – and to that end painted a disastrous season so
far. Number 7 woman (in seniority) at Canadian Fish has only 390 hours work
this year (herring, salmon etc) --- and down to #100 only 7days – ‘that is 30
years of seniority’. While last year the Pinks produced a lot of work – this
year nada. Canneries still largest private employer in PR – and if fishers
have no $$ to spend, then downtown ‘Revitalization’ in vain etc. It is a
disaster similar to a drought or wild fire elsewhere in BC --- And we need
help --- So bring in the minister to listen to our plight etc |
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Increased use of Variance Permits
within last few years – it may be a hornets’ nest for future Rupert development
as these changes go on the title – thus (to mix metaphors) become a Byzantine
maze of legalities say 25 years from now etc |
Joy
also asked one of the more ‘interesting’ questions --- if 719 Alfred already had
an Encroachment agreement from 1980, why need a Variance Permit now? |
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Planner
Zeno Krekic ‘explained’ that insufficient to meet current Zoning Bylaw (about
setbacks?) and thus ‘we would not authorize (another?) encroachment’ (But isn’t that what Board of
Variances meant to do?) More later |
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From Agenda
package – here the ‘1980
house encroachment’ |
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Variance
Permit for Entrance Structure only --- Isn’t there a simpler solution? |
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Revitalization
and Tax Shift |
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This
is probably one of the more important issues before Council – and requires
closer scrutiny--- I will give analysis Thursday |
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Arrows
point to a root that might be colonising for better grounds – but note there are
3 trees here – and the root looks ‘dead’ |
Prince
Rupert and making a living in a Rain Forest --- in a way their
‘determination’ speaks to our need to eek our sustenance too |
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I
like these trees that grow on cliff sides – there only seems to be a pocket
of dirt – yet the trees seem to thrive –these images from along McBride –
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Hoteliers
want our $$$ |
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That the City
‘should’ use metered water rates to determine
sewerage fees (instead of using a flat rate) presents a more complex
issue but here let me point out that the unfairness of flat rates extends to
Residential too – thus a family of 10 pays the same water and sewer fee as
does a 70 year old spinster living alone Here I am wondering
if ‘we’ should not be looking at all the support we give Tourism –from 65T$
grant + ‘Hotel Tax’ we give to their advertising – to our blind eye to their
‘deviances’ |
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Concrete pilings and poles from
Motel’s parking lot now left on City lane for someone else to deal with |
Campfire –
very smoky going on for hours – if a house owner did this they would be fined
--- note they were not cooking anything |
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Extra Foods
update |
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I
was told this rental truck being used by a crew brought in from Vancouver to
dismantle the store interior – I was told that even the electricians etc had
to be brought in as no one (locally) will ‘cross’ the picket line |
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CS Victory
for Canola – but look at all those coal ships (worst source of GHG emissions)
and ‘we’ depend upon exporting it |
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Rupert is
‘protected’ from intense (to us) summer heat --- because soon the fog will
roll in to ‘save’ us |
‘Heat Shield’ rolled in late in
afternoon
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Created by LG on 28/7/2010
Last updated on Wednesday, July 28, 2010