General Township Updates and Rumours

[danbrotherston]

Gotta love the NIMBYs who transplant themselves into a community that they were not always part of and then feel entitled to dictate how it will develop because they want to LARP that it's still 1955 small town Ontario. The objection by Craig Nichols is completely bizarre. He objects to this development because he thinks the people moving in are going to be staring at his teenage daughters...what the hell?

Yeah, that was just disturbing.

I don't think it was mentioned in this article, but in another, one of the delegates was reported to have been in tears. And while I feel that someone moved to tears is really suffering, we need to be more willing, in our culture, to confront that, with compassion and kindness, to help that person understand why their fears are overblown, to help them see that the change is not scary for any other reason that it is change, rather than indulging them, with niceness, and coddling them.

I believe this applies far and wide in our culture, well beyond this particular scenario.

That being said, it appears council is moving forward, so I think we are making the right steps.

(Yes, I found Tenille's editorial to be rather on point).