Comments on The Burd Report: Sometimes anonymous is good

Anonymous Complaints: I've got a problem with ...

2009-06-13T12:21:14.596-04:00

Anonymous Complaints: I've got a problem with that when it comes to making an official complaint. As someone who has spent over 20 years listening to complaints from the general public, I can state from experience that some people will say the most outrageously silly and usually unprovable things if they don't have to give their name.

Anonymity allows revenge and anger to be the motivator rather than any real grievance. What a time waster too!

From the standpoint of the person who has to act on the complaint, it makes the job much harder. When the complainant has to identify themselves they tend to stick to the facts, otherwise, you can bet it's just so much hot air.

Believe me, it would make the investigator's job much simpler if the complainer has to say who they are. I can just imagine the type of crap people were calling about, and if they can cut this out to concentrate on the legitimate complaints everyone would benefit.

With this relatively newly announced planning init...

2009-06-11T17:25:22.639-04:00

With this relatively newly announced planning initiative, (which is nothing new at all, really), I expect to see pressures mount on older established low density areas of low and average quality infrastructure to be torn up and reconfigured with higher density developments. Some important history and heritage may come under such pressures as a result. There will need to be some serious resolve to not let the developers overcome those concerns with suggestions of much higher tax revenue potential for the starving municipality that such redevelopment could provide. I just don't see the 'development industry' pulling back because the easier pickin's are less lucrative and perhaps temporarily out of easy reach.

This is what some do with real flags: http://cobou...

2009-06-11T13:34:22.090-04:00

This is what some do with real flags:
http://cobourgtown.blogspot.com/2009/06/shabby-shabby-shabby.html

Municipal Official Plans and Development: what I d...

2009-06-11T12:46:22.632-04:00

Municipal Official Plans and Development: what I don't understand is how the Province expects municipalities to enforce these new Official Plans with their development limitations when the OMB consistently rules in favour of the developers.

Has the Province quietly stacked the OMB with members who are more inclinced to favour planned development over the profit driven needs of developers?

If they haven't, then what's the point of all this?

I have my own flag thank you. I mailed RN's f...

2009-06-11T12:20:10.575-04:00

I have my own flag thank you. I mailed RN's flag back to him [as I do with all his BS mail].