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A Free Press reader says the $125M plan to redevelop London metropolis corridor is “not an funding, it is a rising debt burden.”
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The place’s the enter?
Concerning the article London to vet builders serious about redeveloping metropolis corridor campus (June 3).
As a longtime metropolis taxpayer, I can’t ever bear in mind a $125-million capital price range expenditure which was accepted by council with a “consent report” provided up by the town and accepted within the subsequent price range course of with completely zero public enter on the proposal, and never even a whiff of Get Concerned London enter to construct out a brand new campus on the present Dufferin Avenue web site.
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That is now shifting ahead to “request for {qualifications}.” I feel taxpayers needs to be waving a purple flag with their respective councillors to open this up for public enter for severe suggestions.
This isn’t an funding, it’s a rising debt burden.
Chris Butler, London
Cartoon off base
I take exception to the current editorial cartoon which implied the NDP is out of date.
Now, greater than ever, we’d like the NDP to maintain us from turning into much more partisan than we already are.
We solely have to have a look at the USA to see to the place two-party partisanship leads.
That’s, to dangerous authorities that’s not for the folks.
Susan McGregor, London
Entrance web page a miss
The June 3 entrance web page version was actually dangerous.
I’d have thought the Knights’ Memorial Cup victory would have earned not solely a big workforce {photograph}, however a big font headline.
As an alternative, we had been handled to an replace from a trial that will proceed for a number of extra weeks.
I’d have thought that civic satisfaction would have resulted in a entrance web page that Londoners might need saved, and even framed.
David Nielsen, London
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Citizenship playing cards
With the entire information within the States about Individuals being arrested and deported when they’re unable to supply proof of citizenship, it occurred to me Canada doesn’t have a citizenship card, one which needs to be issued at beginning.
I do know provinces can problem ID playing cards, however just for their province. We have now social insurance coverage quantity playing cards, however they provide no actual proof of who you’re. We want a card with title, handle, native land, desired intercourse identification and a telephone quantity. These playing cards must be up to date after main life modifications akin to marriage or shifting. Photograph ID could be a further asset when voting or assembly with Service Canada. New residents obtain proof however Canadian-born citizen don’t, aside from beginning certificates which are sometimes misplaced and costly to switch and haven’t any photograph.
On a similar observe, why will we not have an possession card for our properties? It’s required for a automotive, however not a house. That will minimize down on actual property fraud. Only a thought.
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Armand Matte, St. Thomas
Plan regarding
I’m have deep considerations over the proposed residential improvement on Centre Avenue in St. Thomas by Matthew Janes Consulting Ltd., which got here earlier than council June 2.
Matthew Janes, the developer behind the mission, can also be a former president and vice-president of On Observe, the non-profit that acquired the Elevated Park and adjoining lands greater than a decade in the past utilizing public donations, grants, and volunteer labour.
I do know this as a result of I used to be amongst many residents who contributed to the imaginative and prescient. So had been the St. Thomas Horticultural Society, Geerlinks Dwelling {Hardware}, and even the Ontario Trillium Basis. They supported this mission not as a result of it was a enterprise alternative, however as a result of we had been promised a pollinator-friendly public park linked to the Trans Canada Path, constructed for neighborhood wellness and tourism.
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Right now, many people really feel betrayed.
The event now being proposed not solely threatens the park’s authentic mission, it raises severe moral questions. How can somebody personally concerned in buying land by means of neighborhood and charitable funds now search to develop it privately? The place is the transparency about land possession, zoning, and the function of public cash in buying this web site?
Worse nonetheless, there is no such thing as a point out of any declared battle of curiosity within the council agenda. The town’s personal tourism workplace tells guests to park on this very land, which is now poised to be changed into properties.
There’s a small car parking zone 4 kilometres away, however anybody who’s been to a serious occasion on the bridge (just like the Shunpiker Thriller Tour that drew over 1,500 folks in a single afternoon) is aware of that’s wholly insufficient. There isn’t any plan to accommodate the rising quantity of tourism this park was designed to draw.
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This isn’t only a matter of zoning or land use. It’s a query of public belief. Council should halt this proposal, launch an impartial evaluate, and disclose full title historical past and use of charitable and grant funds tied to this property. On the very least, St. Thomas deserves honesty and the dignity of being handled like companions in our metropolis’s future, not an impediment to somebody’s personal achieve.
The general public deserves the complete story earlier than any irreversible selections are made.
Molly Swift, St. Thomas
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