On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 9:26 AM, frank theriault <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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! Yes that's true, and i helped to survey those places people live in now. It was a catch 22 for me. Sad to see the farms go, but i was working. > > 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? Yes Sir, they did. I am toying with the idea to run for councillor in our ward, but i doubt who ever gets in will change anything. Grab the buck and get the hell out, 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. They figure they have spent 10K on clean up, and will pass that on to the criminal when caught,. Like that is gonna happen. Dave > > 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. > -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, Ontario, Canada -- 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.
