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Originally Posted by CCA-Dave
You should see Squamish.
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The other areas in Squamish where the townhomes have already been built are hilarious. Every side road/street looks like a used-truck dealership lot after 6pm. Truck after truck parked on the side of the street. They've been adding so much density that there is a parking problem in the downtown area. Businesses are ticked off that customers can't find anywhere to park, no one who lives down there can find anywhere to park...it's a real problem. The Mayor was on the radio early in the week and she said (I'm paraphrasing) that she didn't think council should be addressing the parking situation because we're all going to be flying drones in 20 years.
I'm convinced every city council is just hungry for more tax dollars so they can waste it in more ridiculous ways than the council before them. |
Increasingly, I'm having this urge to run for city council just to bring some everyday common sense back into the municipal level. But without political affiliations, you don't have the funds to campaign, and without the campaign, you can't get your platform out and win. And then the higher level you go, the more ridiculous it becomes without a political party.
I honestly don't know why it is so difficult for city councillors and mayors to act in the interest of local residents. In my past dealings with municipal governments, they always seem to cater to business and commerce far more than they do to residents. And yet residents are the ones that make the choice to elect them into office...
And then these mayors keep on getting voted back in. How many years have Corrigan been mayor in Burnaby now?