Ever thought of buying one of those infamous soccer licences?
That’s what I’ve done here,
Unsuccessfully
:-(
Amities
Philippe
> Le 22 nov. 2018 à 20:01, Jan Steinman <Jan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit :
>
>> From: "Michael R. Collins" <MRC.OlympusList@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> You can't have escaped that much of modern life when...
>>
>> "... We feel tennis and pickleball is a recipe for conflict
>
> Sigh. It's been said that Salt Spring Island is "10,000 arguments, surrounded
> by water." :-)
>
> Serves them right. PARC (Parks And Recreation Commission) is a mammoth
> bureaucracy that (self-admittedly) consumes over half of the local government
> budget, a government that encompasses the provincial capital of Victoria, as
> well as tens of rural islands.
>
> Their favourite "rural abuse" is to try to take agricultural land out of
> zoning that protects it from development, to develop soccer fields and ball
> diamonds. They've been slapped in the face TWICE for that, but they keep
> trying. The last time, they managed to spend nearly $100,000 of taxpayers'
> money on promoting the idea, while arguing that buying land that was not
> zoned agricultural and that was adjacent to existing facilities (the one
> mentioned above, in fact) was "too expensive."
>
> I was on the Agricultural Advisory Planning Commission at the time. I raised
> the motion to "not forward" PARC's request to the provincial Agricultural
> Land Commission, based on our Official Community Plan's dictate that
> appropriating farm land should only be considered when adjacent to existing
> facilities.
>
> Two days later, I was dismissed from the Commission. I was told they needed
> "new blood" on the Commission. I was replaced by a farmer with school-aged
> kids, who might want to play soccer and baseball, and the new Commission
> STILL unanimously turned down the request. Which PARC ignored, since we are
> only an "advisory" Commission. Then the provincial ALC slapped them silly,
> and told them to stop pilfering agricultural land -- the second time in ten
> years.
>
> Sorry for venting. First-world problems, indeed.
>
> Requisite on-topic info: think I'll go take some farmland pictures, before it
> all goes away, and I have to head to a Scottish peninsula...
>
> Jan
>
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