Sorry, don't be putting your job 'on hold' as a backup in case you don't win an election - quit your job. How is this even allowed? We need councilors present to deal with the city issues, not distracted by other things.
As usual, all these 'outside boards' gets their piece of the pie, as well as uneeded projects like the operations hub, and taxpayers are treated like bank machines. I certainly didn't get an 8% raise this year. That means year over year for as long as I can remember in this city even before this Doug Ford downloading thing, this city keeps taking a bigger percentage of my take home pay.
Giving them a tax break essentially means taxpayers have to pay for infrastructure so they can make their massive profits. No thanks I have enough paying for my own things instead of subsidizing developers.
This is mostly a virtue signaling program that's not really going to produce much and will end up costing the city and taxpayers more than what the program brings in.
Noise is a huge issue with speed bump/humps/cushions or whatever you want to call them nowadays and needs to be considered. There was some temporarily installed in front of my house and the noise all hours of the night was much higher from trucks, trailers rattling and creaking over them, and everyone gunning their engines after the humps to accelerate after, creating a lot of noise and more exhaust emissions. Noise was probably double of what it is when people are going a constant speed and not rattling over these speed bumps. I couldn't sit on the front porch when the speed bumps where there.
So we have 8% tax increases and the City is using our taxes to pay these influencers for this frivolous event. If this isn't tone deaf I don't know what is.
Would be much better to address root causes of accidents such as poor driving, blatant breaking laws by running reds, pedestrians not paying attention, inattentive driving and poor road design then just giving up, assuming everyone's going to just get in accidents and minimizing damage by continually lowering the speed limits and assuming everyone will obey them.