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> A nearby municipality's mayor is requesting a 6 month pause on development. View Royal mayor was going to do that regardless, if you look at his track recor

by soperj 3y ago

> A nearby municipality's mayor is requesting a 6 month pause on development. View Royal mayor was going to do that regardless, if you look at his track record this is what he stands for. Provincial Govt will hopefully make an example out of them. They already had an updated community plan which he purposely kiboshed so that he could institute this pause.

steve_adams_86 3y ago
Yes, this is why I have that feeling that we're so out of sync and people are so blind to the consequences. This is a person who we can give the benefit of the doubt that they want to do the right thing for their community. To them, community planning and maintaining a certain status quo is genuinely important and meaningful, and no doubt, their community is asking for it to varying degrees. But we don't have that kind of agency. We don't have the wealth in communities like View Royal to insulate ourselves from the consequences of inaction. We're fooling ourselves, but I suspect it's quite easy to do so because we've never known any different. Yet we no longer have the boom of various resource extraction as we had when we initially scaled out these communities. We no longer have the space and freedom to sprawl so effortlessly. We have inherited something from a time that is economically, politically, and geographically unrecognizable. It's a monolith of ideals we can't sustain. I suppose a major issue is the complexity involved and frankly, our broader inability (including my own, to be clear) to fully understand where we're coming from and where we're going. Frankly though I would say we're coming from an era of opportunity and entering one of relative scarcity with necessitated resourcefulness that we evidently don't yet possess. And yes, I'm extremely hopeful that the Province will actually execute on making an example of them. It's yet to be seen that they're aware and ready to take action in a manner that will actually foment meaningful results. The fact that they imposed the timeline for action in the first place gives me some hope, though.
- soperj 3y ago
  I think the main issue is that they haven't amalgamated these small communities. View Royal is home to the biggest hospital on the island and less than 12,000 people. There's no reason for Greater Victoria, a population center of 400,000 people to be broken into 12 municipalities.

by soperj 3y ago

steve_adams_86 3y ago

Yes, this is why I have that feeling that we're so out of sync and people are so blind to the consequences. This is a person who we can give the benefit of the doubt that they want to do the right thing for their community. To them, community planning and maintaining a certain status quo is genuinely important and meaningful, and no doubt, their community is asking for it to varying degrees. But we don't have that kind of agency. We don't have the wealth in communities like View Royal to insulate ourselves from the consequences of inaction. We're fooling ourselves, but I suspect it's quite easy to do so because we've never known any different. Yet we no longer have the boom of various resource extraction as we had when we initially scaled out these communities. We no longer have the space and freedom to sprawl so effortlessly. We have inherited something from a time that is economically, politically, and geographically unrecognizable. It's a monolith of ideals we can't sustain. I suppose a major issue is the complexity involved and frankly, our broader inability (including my own, to be clear) to fully understand where we're coming from and where we're going. Frankly though I would say we're coming from an era of opportunity and entering one of relative scarcity with necessitated resourcefulness that we evidently don't yet possess. And yes, I'm extremely hopeful that the Province will actually execute on making an example of them. It's yet to be seen that they're aware and ready to take action in a manner that will actually foment meaningful results. The fact that they imposed the timeline for action in the first place gives me some hope, though.

soperj 3y ago
I think the main issue is that they haven't amalgamated these small communities. View Royal is home to the biggest hospital on the island and less than 12,000 people. There's no reason for Greater Victoria, a population center of 400,000 people to be broken into 12 municipalities.