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We could do without this.

26 hectares of the South March Highlands in the west end of modern Ottawa is about to be clear-cut for home-builders, road-builders and so forth to do their thing. As was done to build most of the modern city from 1826 onwards. It's an old habit, and you'd think we've built outward instead of upwards enough for over 150 years.

But, apparently the addiction must still...still...be fed. Despite our efforts and desire to pull ourselves away from that table as a city.

Enough.

Date: 2011-01-11 03:07 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tartysuz.livejournal.com
Why do they never learn?!

Date: 2011-01-11 03:11 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dewline.livejournal.com
Addiction is its own educator?

Date: 2011-01-11 04:09 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] duncanmac.livejournal.com
Recently, [livejournal.com profile] auriaephiala & I had a discussion about this. She said the main driver these days for urban sprawl is the Ontario Municipal Board (http://www.omb.gov.on.ca/english/home.html), which regularly hears appeals of City decisions, such as those about where development occurs. Apparently the developers have appealed the City's decisions to the OMB repeatedly; in each such case, the OMB has ruled in the developer's favor, not the City's.

Can we say "lobbyists' dollars at work"? :-(

Date: 2011-01-11 04:22 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dewline.livejournal.com
AKA "regulatory capture", that being the shared suspicion amongst the public at large...

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