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BREACHING BYLAW NO. 3290
Councillor wants city hall moved downtown Waddington says larger tax hike could be in order PAUL J. HENDERSON @peejayaitch
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ight-year-old Parker Christie and his friends are confused. They are told over and over by the adults in their lives they should abandon their electronic devices and go outside to play. So they did, collaborating to build a multi-story treehouse that took them over two weeks to construct. But when the group of over a dozen Promontory neighbourhood children returned to their homes last week to find that a city worker had dismantled their treehouse, that clear grown-up mantra suddenly seemed muddied. “They’re just saying go inside, rot your brains and watch TV instead of going outside using your imagination and being active.” “It’s a solid tree, it could probably fit all of us.” “We were just starting to build our safety restraints too, we were trying to make sure nobody would fall off.” “It’s public, it’s for everyone.” “We’re using our imaginations.”
s it possible, even ponderable, in a society that has grown so hostile to taxation of any kind to publicly suggest that we aren’t taxed enough? No, of course not. All taxes are inherently bad and should be reduced to as low a level as possible. Right? That wisdom is so intrinsic to the current cultural zeitgeist that it comes as a great surprise to see a politician anywhere, let alone in conservative Chilliwack, suggest otherwise. “We fund the community that we want based on the taxes that we charge,” said Coun. Sam Waddington at Tuesday’s meeting of city council. Read that line again, it’s important. What Waddington was referring to was the 2015 financial plan bylaw, which includes a 1.49 per cent property tax increase, the lowest in 19 years. The financial plan will receive final adoption after a public hearing on March 17 in council chambers. Public input between now and then is welcome.
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Some of the children involved in building a recently removed treehouse revisit their construction site. From left to right: (top) Parker Christie, Austin Janzen, Roman Zacharias, Taylor Hardy (bottom) Ty Timms, Annika Schulz, Portia Zacharias.
CITY CREW TEARS DOWN TREE FORT, TAKES AWAY KIDS’ FUN “They’re just saying go inside, rot your brains and watch TV instead of going outside using your imagination and being active.”
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