My Junk Drawer
For further proof that the junk drawer in my kitchen holds the answers to all of Windsor’s woes, I decided to go digging through it for todays entry…Can you imagine a city council actually being proactive in their bid to revitalize their downtown?Speaking of being “proactive”, maybe Amherstburg should have held this forum PRIOR to welcoming Wal-Mart into their town with open arms.
Wasn’t Larry Horwitz trying to be proactive by talking about bringing out the street cleaners at 3:00 AM in his bid to “clean up” the downtown in preparation for the daytime activity?
So maybe it’s time for the REAL stakeholders of this community; those with the most
to gain and the most to lose, to pre-empt council and get together to focus on what kind of city they want to live and conduct business in…
…and rally the support of a daily newspaper that honesty “Gets It” when it comes to the
value of investing in their communities “Experience Economy”;
…and perhaps then some of our elected officials would consider other points of view;
…..and begin to see the value in assets currently in the communities possetion,
Only then will we see our reactive city council truly investing in Windsor’s future instead of throwing good money after bad…
opening the floodgates to news stories like this…
So maybe it’s time for the citizens to demand some basic rights in the way their elected officials determine their quality of life and that of their children and grandchildren…
Because it’s truly amazing what you can make of your future when you accept current realities and honestly plan FOR them instead of keeping your head in the sand and hope that your antiquated way of doing business somehow avoids all those realities and lumbers on into the sunset…
We’ve got some amazing oppourtunities before us. Yes, this transition period is a scary one, but it is in times like these when true change occurs and it is up to us to make the change a positive one. Only by taking control of our own future - as we are the people who know what Windsor does best - can we fulfill our promises to the next generation and leave them with a better city than the one we’re going to leave them if we place our
hope with the status quo.
I told you my junk drawer was a magical place.
Tags: Armouries, Downtown, economic development, local economic development, urban sprawl
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Right on the mark Chris! Imagine asking the PEOPLE what they would like downtown. As if NOT going there by voting with their feet isn’t reason enough. Again I have to ask Mr. Horwitz where is that task force he talked about creating. Where is the panel of business and residents that Mark was talking about? I am ready for action. Are you?
What are those two battery operated flashlights doing in your drawer! Replace then with the hand cranked ones! Every house hold has a drawer like that, I just cleaned mine out about three months ago and it is growing in the dark, it has a mind of its own!
Something you won’t find in city hall’s junk drawer: Governance!
http://www.london.ca/d.aspx?s=/Committees_and_Task_Forces/Governance/Governance_TF.htm
Our city wouldn’t dare approach this type of study now!
Here is Charles Landry’s junk drawer their free, all you have to do is register.
http://www.charleslandry.com/index.php?l=freebies
Brookings Institution has a free download area in many subjects, searchable by keyword, here’s one list: Downtown
http://www.brookings.edu/search.aspx?doQuery=1&q=downtown