Meet the IMPCC…
While I was editing the footage from Tuesday nights council meeting, I heard time after time our administration talking about “sustainable” design guidelines and alluding to the fact that developments such as the proposed development at EC Row and Banwell fit within those design guidelines.
Well, we’re going to be looking into these design guidelines, but these were the same people touting Big-Box development that co-authored and signed the Inter-Municipal Planning Coordination Committee’s (IMPCC) “Healthy Places, Healthy People” document.
So who is this group and what are their goal and priorities? Let’s go back to the February 19th council meeting where Windsor’s planning department presented the report to our city council.
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So, there you have it. Our elected officials have heard, from the horses mouths, exactly what this regions planning professionals believe when unshackled from the political process. They cannot feign ignorance any longer. Any future poor planning decisions should be considered a deliberate attempt to hurt our city.
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Excuse me for going off topic a little, but you guys at Scale Down are kicking ass since the new launch. I hear through the grapevine that you might even be approaching Halberstadt levels of discomfort down at the bunker known as City Hall. Keep up the good work.
Thanks for the kudo’s! The amazing thing is we’re just shining light on public statements made by administration and our elected officials. We’re just reminding them of priorities they’ve verbalized in public and how their actions don’t back up those stated goals.
We just want people to walk their talk. Is that asking too much?
In this council, yes. You will be branded a naysayer because you don’t follow and walk in line.
Just more hypocrisy by people that only care about today. Say one thing but do another is the mantra of city hall.
All the right words, phrases, a bucket full of the most up to date buzz speak from our city planning department again! The history of the city planning departments grand views for this city and now the region, lie wasted as entries in the Windsor Star card index at the Central library of the Windsor Public Library. Their grand reports lie gathering dust on the shelves of the library and this one will be added.
In light of most recent decisions of council and the city planning department, the golden arena for boys, big boxers in the west and now big box on Banwell, demonstrates that these glossy reports are really meaningless but just for show to the public that they are getting something for their money.
It seems that Windsor’s new western boundary is Lauzon Road, to the city of Tecumseh on the east, that the decisions being made are all for that area, newer homes, newer schools, newer multilane roads, a golden palace for 18 year old boys who aren’t from Windsor, malls and big box developments..I call it the Kingdom of Eddie, so that when his finishes this, his final term of office he will never have to travel into the old tired, run down area of low income run down housing of what was originally the city of Windsor. Stalling development in what will still be Olde Sandwich twenty years from now.
Yes the E.C Row expressway will be maintained so that those with SUV’s in the east can access Devonshire Mall and the university but never have to travel in Old Windsor. Let’s call the city pandering departments new focus; “The New Windsor,” where history and misery don’t matter, out of sight, out of mind! Old Windsor being to old and to costly to maintain! It will be abandon in these new reports.
All this development as encourage by city council and the city pandering department, follows class lines if you notice, specifically those with money, not the poor, the old, the underemployed, the refugees and new comers from the third world, heaven forbid if we have to deal with those people and give them a better city. It they don’t drive or own a car, they’re sh*t out of luck in this city..that’s their problem not the city’s! In the last twenty years all new development in this city has been south of the E.C, Row and east of Lauzon, better roads, better sewers, better schools, better access to upscale shopping. Heaven forbid if these people have to cross the path of poor people, let alone see them!
The basic minimum criteria of living is Windsor, is to have the financial means to own two vehicles and possibly a third, one being an upscale SUV, a newer van and a third for the kid, so he/she can get to their jobs at the mall or big box stores and new $300,000 home. It you can’t own the basic requirement, nobody at city council or the city planning department wants to hear from you! Yes they did build you a new bus station but nobody can find it! But you are poor people and will have to walk blocks to find it! See! City planning made it so inconvenient that you are better of off walking, filling one of the mouthings of buzz speak from city planning and keeping you in Old Windsor and out of New Windsor!
This report will gather dust with the others on the shelves of the late public library.
On behalf of the people, soon to become Old Windsor and the only civic institution that is left to us, for the financial contribution by the Windsor Public Library of $400,000 to this planning endeavor and the promotion of Greenlink.