Comment 14876

By Balance (anonymous) | Posted November 30, 2007 at 23:11:05

I feel great now that I know there are people out there that do in fact know the truth (CityJoe and Objective) A house assessed at 200,000 in Dundas is a hell of a lot less house then one in the old City!! We should start our own website like this. We'll call it Building a Balanced Community.

One thing that always breaks me up in this City is that minority websites like RTH, CATCH, and HPD pop up, its only a few people (usually the same) who proclaim to know what it takes to build a community and are all anti-business (unless its a ma and pa shop), anti-growth and development. The Spec and media actually give them coverage even though they have no expertise. Then they talk about Portland etc. and try to draw comparisons here. READ Joel Kotkin and he tell you what a success San Fran and Portland really are.

Then they claim that all roads built are for the sub-urbs which are older then the old City itself. We live in a huge region folks not a self contained bubble, we need roads, airports, houses and big business.

Suburban development like Binbrook pays for itself through DC's (full cost recovery) and then huge taxes and water rates to sustain and operate the system. To think the Red Hill was built for residential development is assinine. We now have a great system for goods movement loop around Hamilton.

On another note, HPD president Mike, who proclaims that the City does planning wrong, runs a company in Burlington, drives a big ass V8 and lives in rural Ancaster on a suburban street in the middle of prime agricultural land. Lindley Farms used to own and farm the property his house is located on. Check out Courtland Drive in Ancaster. Talk about hypocritical. They get coverage because they create controversy.

This group and the Province lost at the OMB hearing just like Larry Dianni said. It would have been tossed out because they appealed an urban boundry expansion which was not what the City was doing, they were doing a special study area to consider a possible expansion if further study warranted. Look what happened, the City got another 1000 acres added to the study area, it was 3000 before the OMB hearing now it is 4000. Lets be objective here. You need to look at the facts and not listen to the propaganda.

I do believe that everyone in the community has something to offer, RTH, HPD, Homebuilders etc. That is how a balanced community will be created.

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