gg,I was losing sleep over this one.
If you lived in OB you would just have some hot Ovaltine and z-z-z-z with no worries.
Posted 10 April 2010 - 12:37 PM
gg,I was losing sleep over this one.
Posted 10 April 2010 - 03:07 PM
Posted 11 April 2010 - 07:37 PM
Posted 11 April 2010 - 09:04 PM
In the vein of bylaws and ridiculous enforcement, did you happen to see the news item about a girl in Montreal who was fined $625 for putting her backback on a bench seat as she waited for a bus. It was 2:30 in the morning, or thereabouts and no one else was around to use the bench.
Talk about laws you can pull out of your back pocket if want to get back at somebody!
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Posted 12 April 2010 - 07:40 AM
Posted 12 April 2010 - 07:07 PM
Posted 14 August 2010 - 11:36 AM
In the vein of bylaws and ridiculous enforcement, did you happen to see the news item about a girl in Montreal who was fined $625 for putting her backback on a bench seat as she waited for a bus. It was 2:30 in the morning, or thereabouts and no one else was around to use the bench.
Talk about laws you can pull out of your back pocket if want to get back at somebody!
Posted 14 August 2010 - 12:25 PM
Posted 16 August 2010 - 11:34 PM
Posted 17 August 2010 - 09:03 AM
So the Tinto Rocks got a conclusion tonight at council: adding back some smaller rocks on a portion, adding 4 parking stalls, a new path, and leaving large parts of it without any rocks (just grass).
Interestingly, to continue the trend, Oak Bay council also did something about homelessness at tonight's council: they approved the CRD bylaw to allow CRD Housing to borrow up to $25 million (this after BC Housing is throwing them into the deep end financially).
Posted 17 August 2010 - 09:44 AM
but will they allow public housing to be built in Oak Bay? How about a couple of homeless shelters? How about allowing secondary suites? How about encouraging a gas station in Oak Bay?
Oak Bay is not a real community, it is enclave turning its back on its responsibilities and letting others pay for their lifestyle.
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Posted 17 August 2010 - 09:45 AM
Posted 17 August 2010 - 10:01 AM
Somewhere where neighbors will tolerate a Pandora Green type scenario.Where would the public housing be built then?
This can't pollibly take all that long..Secondary suites are on the way, people indicated they wanted them in a survey.
I guess the Shell Station isn't in Oak Bay? Is the border Foul Bay Road?Where would a gas station be built?
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Posted 17 August 2010 - 12:35 PM
Posted 17 August 2010 - 01:42 PM
As to public housing, local government should seek out the neighbourhood that is least like the problem areas and build it there. It would better for us if the homeless and drug addicts were integrated into the areas where the richest people live. Both sides would benefit from the experience. Ideally I would like to see a 50-100 bed shelter in the Uplands with a shuttle from downtown to bring people to it every night.
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Posted 17 August 2010 - 01:58 PM
Yes, the addicts will have an endless supply of expensive things to steal and sell for pennies on the dollar to feed their crack addictions, and the residents will have an endless supply of noise, violence and all that colourful stuff.
I don't see how it benefits anyone. And I don't see you calling for a homeless shelter to be built next door to your place
Posted 17 August 2010 - 02:02 PM
Posted 17 August 2010 - 03:35 PM
I have them in my neighbourhood and I lose a lot of stuff to petty theft.
By putting it into the Uplands, you will get a lot more people interested in figuring out how to solve the problem. You will also get homeless people meeting people doing better than average.
Also, given the density of the Uplands, a lot fewer people would be impacted by something like the Ellice Street Shelter.
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Posted 17 August 2010 - 04:45 PM
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