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Here
is a delivery truck – parked in street --- so much for Official Community
Plan which requires a delivery space for each downtown business – but that
presupposed smaller deliver vans |
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Catching up WWF Presentations Port’s land use plan public meeting Enbridge’s JRP meeting in PR I will go into each of these in
greater detail later in week |
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Now
truck delivering to another business down the street --- image to right shows
blocking view of car turning onto 2nd Ave |
Photos
taken just a few minutes later |
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Using
front porch as dump |
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A
3rd Avenue owner has argued that ‘treasures’ found in his back
yard which were moved into the public lane – could not be proven to be his –
therefore City could not charge him the bill to haul to dump --- so these
people to left ‘should’ just move the stuff onto the sidewalk and be home
free ---- looks like a huge hole in By-law --- I would suggest needs to be
re-written --- If city could connect say the furnace or the washing machine
to the ‘real owner’ --- a very large fine would be charged ---- furnaces for
example have a long service record from installation to repairs |
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A former City Councillor complained
to Administration about tree branches dumped from property above onto City
land --- He had actually seen them throwing the stuff over the side --- City
agreed and contractor subsequently removed the stuff over a couple days |
Here
was a win for local activism |
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Plus
there was an updated map of high value lands around harbour --- se e my
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WWF
public meeting |
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More detail later about presentations
---- Barb gave a presentation about using submersible to check out the
current state of offshore eel grass beds at Lucy Island Conservancy
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Street
Sealing as art work |
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Took a while to
figure out what they were doing --- putting tar down along cracks etc in 3rd
Ave pavement --- I assume the nearly parallel ines were left from edges of ‘paver’
when last tar put on
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Meeting
at Crest on Port’s Land use Plan |
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While attended by very few people
(hockey game was on) --- presumably same presentation given several times
before to Chamber Commerce etc --- still lots of
good info – which I will develop later
Here is their page for Phase 2 Expansion etc |
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And
what is going on here? |
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The City owns this property – I was
told this was Stage 2 of Environmental Assessment --- ‘hazardous’ material
was found in Phase 1 --- site used for various commercial industrial before –
more later |
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I will argue this is not the time to
be building new ‘combined’ facilities – How many officers? Presently only 30
of the 36 ‘authorized’ employed – and what about the Provincial RCMP? Etc --- Need a better idea of where the town is going
before making these kinds of investments -- |
A
new RCMP building?? |
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Enbridge
Joint Review panel also in town |
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Same evening as the Port’s
presentation --- much of the info is available online --- I will return to develop
information later in week See their site
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Intervenor
participation deadline is rapidly approaching – July 14th – more later
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The Enbridge Tankers will potentially
threaten critical North Coast water ways – more later |
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Papa DFO cruise just completed |
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Done 3 times a year to monitor ocean
conditions off our shore --- especially important with Climate Change – and Health
of Ocean concerns globally I will come back to this |
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While I have not kept up on the
changes in the season – I see ‘white flowers’ peaking --- many require
pollinators --- which is presumably why later in season |
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And as always it made for a beautiful sunset |
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Created by LG on June-23-11
Last updated on Thursday, June 23, 2011