In response to a comment on the difference between Mulock and Bathurst Street to account for the Region paying for $2 millions worth of privacy fencing:
Before it was a Regional Road Bathurst was a Toronto and York County Road under the jurisdiction of the Toronto and York Roads Commission.
The road stretches from Lake Ontario to Bradford.
It means the traffic using the road is travelling from one municipality to another.
The function of the road never changed. it was always intended to be a north/south arterial collecting
and distributing traffic along the way.
There may have been only two lanes of pavement. The width of the right-of- way established the future use.
The fact that it formed the boundary between Aurora and King , Aurora being urban and King being rural was not an indication that it was either a local or a rural right of way.
The development of homes backing on to Bathurst added to traffic volume .
It was still a beautiful location to buy a home . Residents along its length, north and south , built their own privacy fences .
In Aurora they had additional setback and a stand of old forest between them and the traffic. It made their lots even more exclusive and no doubt more expensive.
I have heard Regional staff bend over backwards to accommodate regional politicians.
Whatever the pols want, they get . No principles or policies apply.
The half million dollar Red Cross donation for Tsunami relief was at the instigation of then Mayor of Markham , Don Cousens with a large voting population from that part of the world.
I haven't heard a proposal for a similar donation to the flood victims of High River Alberta .
Or Lak Megantic in Quebec where that horrifying train wreck caused such
terrible loss.
I do not suggest there should be.
The lack of consistency in financial management is my point.
Hundreds of thousands of dollars were spent on a tree-planting contract. Without warranty the
job would be completed satisfactorily. It wasn't. The money was pissed away.
Monday 26 August 2013
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And the Region is broke. But our Councillors keep on applying for grants to cover their posteriors.
" Well, there are grants available. I just wanted to see the direction of Council before applying for them. "
Which is translated into, " The money is available. "
Bunk!
Just look at the Senate. They are starting to eat each other.
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