Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Planning, Town Councils, Residents to blame for commercial entities in residential communities

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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Most times, the town planners themselves do not seem to have any idea what is residential and what is commercial land ....

A lot of "plans" pass them blind!! Then when the planners react, it is always a little too late.

It is unfortunate, that our town and city planners do not have "sheriffs" to oversee that residential areas remain just that ... residential, and that commercial areas remain commercial, they are not side by side in existence.

Case in point ... Too often you see a motor garage in a residential area - THAT SHOULD NOT BE ...!!! Motor garage mechanics use all sorts of petro-chemicals with little or no regard to the health of residents (who are sometimes elderly or new borns), who inhale these poisonous emissions - most times, the auto mechanics themselves use little or no safety gear on themselves for that matter - but that is another story!

It is time for the town councils, the town and city planners to take a survey of these ills, so that another CIE event does not occur.

June 30, 2010 at 11:20 AM
Anonymous said...

Most of the time Planning is not to be blamed. The DCA has not been given the tools to do the job. For many years the planning laws were weak; they still are. Legislators have been reluctant to strengthen the law. The 1971 law which was an intended to be interim law stayed on the books for more than 25 years. A lot of teh plight blight emerged during that time. All attempts made during that time to introduce new, stronger laws were resisted.

Rather than support the planning process, politicians have frustrated it by giving people the right to build without planning permission and objecting to EIAs.

CSI

June 30, 2010 at 11:44 AM

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