06-11-2016, 08:18 AM
(06-11-2016, 12:33 AM)eizenstriet Wrote:(06-10-2016, 09:50 PM)tomh009 Wrote: Yes ... a quite unnecessary snide remark on Waterloo.
Waterloo has to start hearing it. It is difficult for the independent thinkers there to influence the critical mass of cheerleaders, "team players" and rubber-stampers. Someone has to be willing to say "the Emperor has no clothes" and be heard.
Too many prime sites have been occupied by dreck. Compounding the problem is that quality may not want to build near the dreck.
$11 million dollars of public money has been set aside to "fix" Northdale. Might have been cheaper and better for Waterloo's long-suffering taxpayers if there had been more Etherington-type voices on the Council to the north early on.
The "good" news is that with unamalgamated cities, there is competition. Kitchener has been looking good, and the smart and stylish money has somewhere else to go while still generally benefiting the "Twin-Cities". Etherington's contribution to the competition may be helping both.
That would imply that there are people in Waterloo who don't recognize the issue. I doubt that is the case. The powers that be may have allowed it to happen, but "having to hear it" seems too much like "I told you so". Plus, K and W are at their best when they cooperate, not when they compete. You may be confusing us with Cambridge! (LOL)