Comment 81185

By John Neary (registered) | Posted September 23, 2012 at 21:36:34 in reply to Comment 81176

The idea was to 'localize' a concerted effort as well as making the impetus behind it not the leadership of any councillors, but the 'will of the people'.

The will of what people? You? Residents of Kirkendall and Durand? (The ones I know would want all neighbourhoods to be treated equally.) Certainly not the will of people in all of the other lower-city neighbourhoods that one resident of Stoney Creek has decided to leave out of his own plan. I'll take Jason Farr's plan over yours, thank you very much. It starts with a basic premise that all of wards 1-3 are in this together.

Yes, this is a foundation belief for me, that neighbourhoods have the overriding right to determine what's best for them to promote the highest level of Quality of Life possible.

We had a vote at the last BNA meeting about whether to ask for two-way reversion (BTW, good point re: the word "reversion") of all of our two-way neighbourhood streets. Support for two-way reversion exceeded 80%, with most of the nays being from residents who feared that street parking will be lost. (It won't). What about our overriding right to self-determination?

I chose this 'red-box' area because it's sequestered, even though my first choice was Cannon Street. It is a truly 'residential' area, the existence of which is almost entirely predicated on Life lived.

This strikes me as simply another excuse for not taking quality of life seriously in the neighbourhoods that have suffered the most from sixty year of terrible urban planning. ("Beasley and Central aren't really residential, and anyone who lives there has implicitly stated that they don't care about the physical environment, so we don't need to worry about them.")

The truth is that my bet, even if you were able to get the vast majority of people involved in the education, examination and conversation processes, you may well find that many of the one-ways would not be targeted for reversion. That people would be fine keeping them the way they are, thankyouverymuch.

See my second point above.

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