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February 14th

City council meeting Monday

Alarm bells ringing

Muskeg News has the final scores – ANBT championships

 ----Off loading commercial rates onto residential?? Election is coming – so keep in mind who supports offload etc

 

Old Totem Theater a nuisance? A Hazard?—what about CN station?

 

Signs of Spring already

 

From the Sportees as just common folks with fishing licenses –see this meeting with Stephen Harper --- and this BC Halibut Org site where Town Hall meetings draw crowds

Halibut could be contentious with sportees and commercial ‘facing off’

Are sportees just folks or commercial ‘sport’ lodges in disguise? --- Are most commercial fishers ‘slipper skippers’ selling their quota to others --- or just guys trying to make a living?

 

 

I have an earlier page on Halibut that is out of date but interesting in comparison ---- I will come back on the fishery over time – how local natives, then Japanese, then Scandinavian, etc move in or are replaced

 

And then there is Rotary too

This is scheduled later in meeting

 

 

 

But they may ‘reduce’ water for residential and then apply same ‘ratio’ to both --- it gets more complicated

And the Fun begins

Just pick some ratio --- Bad part of this is that Council will have met in-camera for a couple hours and so will probably have sorted out (illegally) what they want before

 

Like I said – quite complicated

Good part of doing it this way is that will allow public comment at COW next time before given final readings

 

Should be interesting meeting

Home owners get a reduction for water and an increase for sewage

Large increase in 2013 to ‘convince’ all non residential to get metered

 

Eventually people might be using their ‘grey water’ etc to flush toilets --- I could see taxpayers paying for it while hotellliers make ever more $$ etc

‘Water in = water out’ argument

Of Course the argument of won’t stand much scrutiny --- see my previous for Yacht Club etc --- but may be some wording that allows them to go to another category as like at left – the water used is not going into the ‘sewer’ but the storm drains ---- but what about green houses say at Rona’s etc?

But ‘worse’ is this is a subsidy to Hotels etc --- take the Anchor Inn with 44 Rooms – we taxpayers have to build his sewers (and future treatment facilities to accommodate a full house --- at peak --- but Frank will only pay ‘us’ when he has ‘customers’ --- more later

 

 

 

 

While the canopy looks ‘fairly’ strong--- the sides look like they could fall if a heavy fall of snow --- and building becoming an eyesore --- much more than the old Home Hardware on 3rd --- but I suspect the owner better connected with big wigs at City Hall than --- see my earlier

 

 

 

Looks like the tearing down is imminent

While the CN station could be a ‘corner stone of waterfront tourism --- I still see pigeons flying in broken windows etc

 

 

 

 

Signs of spring – growth beginning again

 

 

 

 

 

Created by LG on 13/2/2011

Last updated on Monday, February 14, 2011