Step Five.
Land use
asphyxiation.
From Anastasios
Baxevanidis
Dear friends,
Let the Land
Help us.
October 27th, 2014 is the date to
VOTE. You can
change your Town, for fair days,
and secure future.
Our Native Land
hold your horses, stop the wall.
Land use asphyxiation
is the by-product (externality) of land
mismanagement, where land use planning follows unorthodox economic protocols.
In addition, common cense growth pattern applications, in long run strategies
are fundamental to land use policies (In contrast to the case of opportunism).
Just imagine the given
"ortho-parallelogram" of the Town of Richmond Hill area (6X13 Kilometres) how it was forty years ago,
with all the geographical characteristics.
The land has been
vandalized, on the altar of political convenience and the unwise management of
the land capital owners. Both parties act unprofessionally, lucking leadership
skills, are irrelevant to the future of the children, and their understanding
of future social relations are weak and not promising.
The Town's vitality
generates a monotonous Para-phony and the an destructed homogeneity of the land
improvements as an provisional- less cacography.
It is not because of the wasted promised wealth, but because of the destruction
of the environmental base and the elimination of possibilities , this parcel of
land to give what it could to the future generations. There was no
consideration what so ever to save the land, the water, the air, and equally,
to save the children from desperate lives, for which lives we are responsible,
and we should be accountable for policies neglecting the due process, because
of special interests, short sided, ignorant, and being irresponsible.
What must take action NOW!!!
Let us see the reality
from the prism of negativity to realize the painful destructive growth, and
growth by all means, irrational, and discriminatory, in cense of social needs,
economic needs and political needs.
There is not and never
was an essential official plan for the whole
Town, and even the dominant myth of the "official down Town
plan" was so weak in fundamentals and so strong assumptions made the whole proposition
unstable, not reliable and very exclusionist for any decision making. This is
typical political convenience, submissiveness and fire works attitude. As far as the theatre's theatrical that is a
different pain to soothe, for all. The "propose new White Elephant Town
Hall" I suspect is a jock, or watch the salesman.
Let us clear, secure,
and cherish what ever left from the CATs and loaders. Every natural, geographic
endowment must be environmental heritage of the Town of Richmond Hill . The neglect and cover up of
such sides is obviously regrettable and seriously offensive. We lost too many
sides for the glory of asphalt, cement and bricks. Let us beautify the creeks
and let the marshes and the springs give us the Persephonian dreaming of life.
So, yes we have to have the Office of Natural environment Heritage of the Town
of Richmond Hill (ONHTRH). The Building Heritage, which
carries the bible history of the social development of the Town, needs to
complemented by the (ONHTRH) witch will narrate the natural history of the
Town. The office will have to catalogue (list) all the natural sights of
interest, categories them, prioritize them according to the value and needed
rehabilitation, intervention, etc, etc... The natural character of the sides
must be preserved. Use as much as possible, ZERO industrial products. These
sides are the natural wealth of the Town and the least of
"civilization" we trust on nature the better it is for the
professionalism.
The total area of the
Town is , give and take, eighty square kilometres, and it is criss-cross, by a
system of Regional and Town roads to facilitate
the movement of people, goods and services in an efficient method and safe way.
The question, of cause, is how to achieve and how to measure these qualities.
In an other STEP we are going to talk about that question.
The Town of Richmond Hill is not
alone. It is part of the York Region (YR) Municipality, with other eight Towns.
There is the issue of togetherness, on the Municipal level and how it is
possible to get the most of this interrelation of opportunities of this
pluralistic organization with tanks of expertise, space to move, capital to
exploit possibilities of new ways doing
what is right for the people of this Region. Of course that would depend on the
political ethos across the board in the Region, etc, etc...
A promise is a denial.
A proposition is a dilemma.
With great respect and
expectations
Have a hopeful day
Anastasios Baxevanidis (BA, MA)
Economist
E-mail:
anastasiosbaxevanidis@gmail.com
E-mail: aithrios@gmail.com
Blog:http:anastasiosbaxevanidis.blogspot.ca
Help our Town.
Pass it to your friends.
People have duties and rights.
