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Originally Posted by ILoveHalifax
Except when the elected councillor is so blatantly NOT OBJECTIVE.
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Well, it's not really possible for a councilor to be totally objective. Would you prefer he lived in Toronto like our CAO?
We don't necessarily "need" those bridges. Obviously you would like them. A lot of people wouldn't. The city will grow differently with or without them, and the South End is growing and is already one of the densest parts of Atlantic Canada... You and the councilor just have different visions for the city's future I guess, and while neither of them are exactly aligned with mine, his is closer and (in my limited experience as a planning graduate) I would say that Waye's are more reflective of contemporary planning theory than "someone who lives in the neighbourhood and doesn't want it to change". I can't say I agree with every vote/decision he's made but that's the nature of politics. It seems like he takes a lot of unjustified hate and abuse here. There is more than one way of growing a city and there's more than one way of improving it.
If you expect it to ever look just like Vancouver here, you're in for a long wait (moving to Vancouver would be a more realistic approach).
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