Comment 77445

By seancb (registered) - website | Posted May 29, 2012 at 08:56:44 in reply to Comment 77439

It is about so much more than stopping at a store in your car on an impulse. It's about making the core of the city a pleasant place to live, and to attract new citizens who will live here - and to be especially attractive to new citizens who don't have cars (or who will drive less) since their tax dollars are more efficient as they'll have a lower impact on the infrastructure.

The only way we will be able to afford the costs of maintaining this city in the future is if we increase the number of people who live here without increasing the area which we have to service with roads, sewers, water, etc. This means higher density. This density has to happen in the core. And we will never achieve this density if we continue to pander to through traffic.

The end result of fast through traffic is high taxes. And I'm sure we can all agree they are too high already.

Council needs to sit down and take a really good look at how we are going to increase our tax base in the moderately near future. The longer we put this off, the deeper we will spiral and it's going to get to the point where we won't be able to climb out.

I vote down for offensiveness and up for humour. I cast no votes based on my level of agreement.

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