Greenwich Street
If you drive down Greenwich Street in Eagle Place, you will notice that the block from Eagle Ave to Port St. , across from the canal, has no houses along it. About 30 years ago or so, there were about a dozen modest houses occupying this stretch. Then the City expropriated and bought them and tore them all down, along with about another dozen or so houses on Eagle Ave. and Rose Ave. They did the same thing with another dozen or so houses just off Murray St. near the canal bridge on what was Riddolls Ave and part of Glanville Ave. Maybe about 40 properties or more in total.
The idea for this mass destruction (all paid for by the poor taxpayers) was that these properties were going to be used as part of the BSAR. Well, thirty plus years later and the prospects of this happening are dimmer than ever. These properties have sat vacant all these years, generating no tax revenue (probably a loss of about $100,00+ for 2010 alone) as well as a loss of a substantial number of good moderate cost housing.
(As a side note, the Council under the leadership of Chris Friel, paid somewhere around about half a million dollars to the Six Nations for an easement through the Glebe Land for this same non road, that has since expired and with the changing political view on the reserve will never be repeated. More money spent with absolutely nothing to show for it.)
So, if you wonder why I and many others are skeptical, among other reasons, about and against the destruction of the south side of Colborne St., travel the few blocks down Greenwich St. and observe another Council folly. I, for one, am tired of seeing tax money wasted with no results to show for it. After all, these schemes are paid for out of our pockets, with money that most of us could put to far, far better use.
The idea for this mass destruction (all paid for by the poor taxpayers) was that these properties were going to be used as part of the BSAR. Well, thirty plus years later and the prospects of this happening are dimmer than ever. These properties have sat vacant all these years, generating no tax revenue (probably a loss of about $100,00+ for 2010 alone) as well as a loss of a substantial number of good moderate cost housing.
(As a side note, the Council under the leadership of Chris Friel, paid somewhere around about half a million dollars to the Six Nations for an easement through the Glebe Land for this same non road, that has since expired and with the changing political view on the reserve will never be repeated. More money spent with absolutely nothing to show for it.)
So, if you wonder why I and many others are skeptical, among other reasons, about and against the destruction of the south side of Colborne St., travel the few blocks down Greenwich St. and observe another Council folly. I, for one, am tired of seeing tax money wasted with no results to show for it. After all, these schemes are paid for out of our pockets, with money that most of us could put to far, far better use.
posted by The Grouchy Old Man at 12:20 PM
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Thanks, but I don't post on Twitter.
your facts are wrong about the glebe property
Feel free to enlighten me. I know that there was more than money involved in the Glebe agreement but believe that amount was in the $400,000 - $500,000 range.
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