This has been an intense period of door to door campaigning in three areas of Town: Riverview, Sunterra and West Pointe/West Terrace. Overall, support has been excellent with many different issues raised at the doors. I am trying to get to talk to everyone, and I am making good progress.
On Wednesday evening, I campaigned in Riverview by myself until dark. The next evening I went back with Andy, and on Thursday, I went back to finish the final cul de sac. Issues raised included everything from use of the greens for more housing, which I strongly oppose now and into the future, to raising taxes, and growth. The Riverview entrance sign is in terrible disrepair and citizens want the Town to clean it up and restore to its original state.Citizens want to know if the Town is checking to ensure that the developer of the condos in the east side of Riverview is meeting the conditions that were imposed on the development. Apparently, there are a number of conditions that were never met, and the developer has failed to come through on his promises of trees, landscaping and improvements on the greens.
Two families in Riverview had similar questions about ensuring that there are blue box type receptacles along the Riverview pathways for pop bottles and cans-they say that everyone just throws these valuable recyclables into the garbage cans, and the town could be collecting and returning them for cash if the Town provided these receptacles-sounds like a good idea.
The same two families made inquiries about the gravel being cleaned and separated on the Domtar lands. They want to know who owns that gravel and why the Town is not charging the developer business taxes for gravel mining operations and gravel products that are being collected and sold to LaFarge. Why is the Town deferring all taxes on this site when the developer who owns the land is clearly profitting from the sale of minerals, no different than Burnco or Robinson extraction operations. Great questions. I hope to find out more and post here later.
There were many questions about the dumping of gravel and topsoil in the floodplain area near the recreation centre and why that is being done and by whom. Generally, there is dust and noise associated with all the operations in the Domtar and industrial area, and people want to make sure air quality is safe and that the Town enforces its noise bylaw.
Overall, people are happy to see me in Riverview and are saying that they will be voting. I was asked about advance polls:
October 12: RancheHouse 4-8
October 14: RancheHouse 4-8
October 16: RancheHouse 10-4
Also, if a person wants to find out more about mail in ballots they can call (403) 851-2526.
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