I tell you because it's true and it's relevant.
Time was a zoning application had to be made for a "group home"to be located .
Every application resulted in uproar in every neighborhood.
It didn't stop until Provincial regulations removed the need for re-zoning.
It was finally understood, people with special needs are people like everyone else with the same right to live in a residential neighborhood .
They are not lesser beings.
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The tree bylaw was back on Tuesday with a new barrel load of twaddle.
An hour of general committee ,an hour and a half of Council spent dipping into the stew cooked up by the Environmental Advisory Committee.
The pesky bylaw was sent back to the committee.
Serves them right.
Former Councillor, many times failed candidate for Mayor, Nigel Keane was the original author.
Clear-cutting had not been observed in town . It was election time.
Under the Bylaw, Property owners were compelled to post a sign,notifying neighbors of intention to destroy or injure trees and provide opportunity to prevent the crime.
On receipt of application, staff descend upon the property with arborist. calipers and gear for
documentation.
Trees are identified by type, examined for health, measured for size and pin-pointed for location.
Permit fees are established by numbers of trees . Thousands of dollars are extracted in the process.
Recommendation to grant is made by staff .
Decision to grant ..or not... is made by Council.
Fees are not refunded ,if permit not granted.
An application came from the owner of a tree covered lot. He wanted to build a house.
He notified neighbors, hired experts, paid permit fees and waited.
Bylaw -author -Councillor Kean moved refusal.
The motion was defeated.
Everything needing to be said about lame-brained, idiotic, asinine. time-wasting tree bylaw was said in Kean's motion.
Annual applications to remove trees are in low single digits.
Mostly for heavily wooded building sites.
Such construction is mostly in estate lot subdivisions.
Mostly in the Oak RidgesMoraine and regulated by the OakRidges Moraine Act .
Provincial legislation trumps local bylaws every time
A house built in the Oak Ridge Moraine is subject to site plan approval and simplified subdivision agreement.
Removal of trees is part of the planning process. Not the tree bylaw.
Thousands of trees are planted annually in Aurora Looking down Yonge Street from Newmarket
the town cannot be seen for the trees.
Destruction and injury of trees by a horde of black-hearted villains is not of note.
Never a hint , sign twitch or twinge of wholesale slaughter of verdant companions is seen.
Would we could ,pass a Bylaw outlawing interminable debate on foolish, nonsensical rules and compulsion to punish will-o-the-wisp offenders.
The province has given the Region authority to control tree removal on golf courses.
Town movement into that domain will likely be speedily renounced.
We are a nation of laws.
Friday 24 January 2014
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"Chink Chink"?
Not sure what you meant.
You might want to check out its use, or not.
Aurora ia also a town of idiots, and most members of council are in this club.
Good. Several of the councillors didn't even understand what they were voting on. Cllr Humfryes is still hung up on her Dad cutting down some of HIS trees. Her Dad does not live in aurora as far as I know. No one in town takes out a tree without a reason. Council has a problem with ' reason '.
12:00
Wrong stream. What I heard from those words in a previous post was the sound of money hitting a cash drawer. It fit the topic. Do try to get over yourself.
It's the same with the Habitat. Every time there is a move in that direction. screams erupt. Aurora looks pretty petty.
Tree by-laws and clear garbage bags.
Answers to questions that absolutely no one was asking.
Just add these to the pile of make-work "issues" our bored council occupies it's time with.
As if it wasn't obvious enough that the number of councillors needs to be cut in half - at minimum.
13:54, the common onomatopoeic representations of that occurrence are "cha-ching" and "ka-ching." What Cllr Buck (unfortunately) wrote is something else entirely.
Habitat is a one-time thing. Not like paying the same people over & over again. Hydro funds could be used for something like that, IMO
Oh, Mr Enchanter. You are going to be in so much trouble for ending a sentence with with........
Certain members of council should be compelled to post a sign, notifying people of their intention to speak, and thereby provide an opportunity to run like hell.
"Oh, Mr Enchanter. You are going to be in so much trouble for ending a sentence with with."
LOL!
Probably but be warned.
This is a rule up with which I will not put!
But seriously - what do you think?
Can Aurora become Canada's Grammar Town?
Should council debate or refer the matter back to staff?
I'm not sure if Council would ever move to reduce their own #'s, But Tim is quite right. Nothing is being accomplished. Every time they approach a decision, someone, usually Cllr Thompson, makes a motion to delay or send the thing back to staff or committee. The land with the old library is a perfect example of that. It was first to be considered this term and is still hanging out there. Even the tree by-law handling was weird. Just saying.
Christopher
Yes, 18:47, and he should have used "its" rather than "it's."
It really is unbelievable the amount of time and money being spent on these new “projects” or “programs” to better our “quality of life”. Garbage bags, trees new public works/recreation facility and a pie in the sky heritage park. While in between these council/committee meeting discussing our tax increases for next years budget. Hello… Aurora councillors? Get off your warm and fuzzy clouds…and stop thinking of how to spend more of our money, and start thinking really hard on how we can afford all this crap without taking more of our money, and going into debt. Mayor Dawe our Regional Councillor knows the mess the Region is in with the debt at $2.2 billion and climbing. And in case people think “What’s that got to do with Aurora”? We are 5% of the Region, and our share of this debt has way to many zero’s for me to calculate. Recently the S&P gave the Regions credit rating an outlook from stable to negative. It’s been suggested for municipalities to consider the deferring of projects to help with this mess. So instead of trying to beat Markham or any other municipality with “waste diversion”, how about trying to be the best at controlling our spending and just saying no to these cockamamie money sucking projects
How come meetings get put in front of regular meetings when they are not listed. We had learned about closed sessions after meetings. Now they seem random- before or even during a meeting. Makes keeping up to date tricky.
20:04
Language is alive & well on Evelyn's Blog. Anyone can weigh in regardless of spelling, grammar yadda, yadda.....
There is only the one pedant entombed with its reference materials and gloomy rhetoric.
21:28
You are not funny. I find you to be an arrogant monster who judges people you have never met on how they express themselves in a wonderfully complicated and constantly evolving language. It implies superiority to those who have not had your advantages and education.
Oh yes.
It's true. it's true.
It's as plane as the nose on you're face.
Of course it's obvious and theirs no denying it.
Sometimes I right so fast I loose track of my spelling and grammar.
It bugs me to when folks misuse words and contractions like "it's".
I hope it's not to late to fix it.
It's certainly going to make the blog easier to understand so in the end - it's a good thing.
Your quite right to correct me.
11:37
Now that is funny and shows sense. Well done.
Those hits have been earned but there is the possibility that this individual never considered itself to be a bully.
I see that you've deleted a previously-published comment. Hmm...
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