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Can someone at London city hall tell me why a small city like St. Thomas can figure out a way to get people off the streets, out of the woods, off private properties and parks?
London keeps approving multimillion-dollar apartment buildings and subdivisions of monster homes with double-car garages that take years, in some cases, to build.
St. Thomas, with Doug Tarry Homes, has come up with small homes – one-, two-, and three-bedrooms – starting at less than 500 square feet. The bones of some of these homes can be constructed in just three days.
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London’s mayor and city council need to get their heads out of the sand and their hands out of taxpayers’ pockets and deal with this crisis so it is no longer the public’s problem.
Cold weather is only about three months away.
Diana Squire, London
Already challenged
Regarding the article Feds tap city to help entice francophone newcomers (Aug. 16)
The announcement by federal Immigration Minister Marc Miller to add London to its Canada-wide network of host communities to welcome Francophone immigrants seems ill-advised and tone deaf to Canadian polling strongly supporting a reduction in immigration.
London already is challenged to absorb the foreign students admitted by Fanshawe College and Western University and its affiliates, which are driving a 1.6 per cent apartment vacancy rate, sky-high homeless population issues and a very tough job accelerating new home builds.
Do politicians get earplugs to help them ignore the negative feedback?
Who else signed up for this?
Chris Butler, London
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Connect bike lanes
Regarding the letter Stop messing with our streets, council (Aug. 17) in which J. White contends the city is making the streets worse by installing bike lanes among other changes.
I disagree.
For several years now, the personal automobile has proven itself to be increasing incapable of handling growing populations. The city has concluded that kowtowing to the car will only result in a dystopic nightmare.
We need to start emulating larger cities like Toronto that offer numerous transit options.
If, in fact, the city’s bike lanes were fully connected their use would increase as they have in other cities.
Imagine if Highway 401 were not fully connected between Windsor and the Quebec border. How useful would it be?
David Nielsen, London
Do as they say . . .
It appears some tree huggers on London council object to a developer’s removal of a bunch of scrub trees on a property on Highbury Avenue to allow construction of some storage lockers.
Is this not the very same council that has authorized the cutting down of thousands of trees for their very expensive bus rapid transit project? I guess it is just council being consistently inconsistent.
Dave Mathers, St. Thomas
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