Here we go again!
The sports lobby is nothing if not persistent getting the sports complex back on the council agenda. No doubt with the enthusiastic blessings of Mayor Corner's cronies and Mary Malerby, who obviously has no strong convictions of her own and changes her vote according to the prevailing winds of public opinion.
Unfortunately she finds herself precariously perched on the fence between an equally balanced but polarized council on this issue and many others. On one side we have the pro-growth, pro-business, big spenders, in favour of urban development at any cost, namely Corner, Williams and Taylor. On the other side we have the voices of moderation and restraint, such as Garlick, Firman and Dirk, trying to protect the rural character and the long-term ecological sustainability of the community.
I very much doubt we would be waging this battle if Danyliu had managed to pick up 8 more votes or if the electorate had any idea of the kind of values the candidates ran on in the last municipal election. Assuming that the voters were really well informed, which I very much doubt, one must conclude that the community is itself polarized not only on this issue but on the whole future development of Coldstream. Therefore this issue should have been left until after the next municipal election when the electorate could have voted for those candidates who would have taken a stand on this contentious issue and other similarly pressing issues facing our community.
I think Mayor Corner is trying to do everything possible to squeeze this project in under this watch because he has certainly annoyed a lot of people in the process of “growing” Coldstream according to his vision and may not be given another mandate. If this referendum defeats his vision for a friendly Sports Tourism sports complex in the centre of Coldstream then I would hope that he and is cronies will be appropriately dumped in favour of people better aligned with the values of the majority of Coldstream residents.
Peter Peto
492 Terrace Drive
Colstream
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