[BaddieB]

I think community cenres aren't the greatest use of taxes? I feel like that's something that could be better handled by the private sector. Pools especially are giant money holes, but I understand the public benefit. What I don't like is the strategy of cities building so many amenities funded by levies on new housing. That is super unsustainable. I'd rather it be exclusively from property taxes. If people want to pay more taxes that's fine by me, but personally I don't mind them not existing. I would rather that money be spent on economically productive projects like transit or education.

Small amenities like outdoor pools, parks, sports venues etc are great. It becomes problematic when your city is spending over $250M on vanity projects like CG Brown in Burnaby. Imagine how much transit or new classrooms could be funded with that money. We need those for a functioning society, an olympic sized pool? That's more of discretionary.