On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 8:33 AM, David J Brooks <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks Frank. > > There was another report Thursday in our local rag. Mayor and > councillors quite upset about this. This is all new to them and cannot > figure out why some one would do this. Sad, but kinda funny at the > same time. What's really sad is that idyllic little places like Stouffville get swallowed up by big cities. I remember when I first came to southern Ontario in '68, Richmond Hill was about a 10 or 15 minute drive through farm fields up Bayview or Yonge from the 401, fer gawd's sake. Now Stouffville! I think the puzzlement of mayor and council is ironic more than anything else. They did vote for all those large developments that have gone up (and are still going up), right? They're happy to take the increase in tax base and all the monies developers give them to put people in their community. Hopefully they put some of that money aside to deal with the inevitable problems thousands of city-dwellers bring with them. Like that's gonna happen... cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
