{"id":1505,"date":"2013-04-16T13:06:53","date_gmt":"2013-04-16T17:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=1505"},"modified":"2013-05-07T17:12:27","modified_gmt":"2013-05-07T21:12:27","slug":"klees-bill-has-important-implications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/klees-bill-has-important-implications\/","title":{"rendered":"Klees\u2019 bill has important implications"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recently, a Newmarket resident complained that too much programming at the Magna Centre over-filled the parking lots and resulted in parking fines.
\nThe April 9 edition of The Auroran displayed many other threads that weave a vibrant fabric in the region. Rosalyn Gonsalves advocated on behalf of drivers, not-yet condo-residents, in the N. E. Quadrant. The streets are still calm.
\nKlaus Wehrenberg noted that a downtown business stakeholders meeting and a Library Square brainstorming session ran concurrently.
\nAlison Collins-Mrakas wrote in support of the OMB bill by our MPP, Frank Klees. She asks us to \u201cstep back a bit\u201d and review some background. She notes that acts like Places to Grow and Greenbelt sound good on paper, \u201cbut the devil is truly in the details.\u201d
\nKlees held a telephone town hall on the 11th to explain his bill to exempt some council decisions from a hearing at the Ontario Municipal Board. Klees stated a belief that developers \u201cbudget\u201d for an OMB hearing. Therefore the individuals or municipalities are out-gunned by deep pockets.
\nPerhaps a bigger step backward would help.
\nThe 1900 Town of Aurora, 12 year after incorporation, had a population just under 2,000 while the world population was about 1.6 billion.
\nAfter a hundred years of immigration, biology and ducking the Y2K Millennium Bug, the Aurora population reached 40,000 while the world jumped to 6 billion. Provincial demographers noted that biology was not keeping pace making babies while the percentage of retired elders rapidly increased. This signalled an unsustainable financial situation. Ontario picked the universal solution – Grow a bigger pie. We have always done that with immigration.
\nThe legislation was drafted to protect green spaces while parcelling out population quotas to municipalities. The 2031 Aurora population target was 75,000, while the world is expected to hit about 8 billion. The alternative to the population increase for \u201cSmall Town Aurora\u201d is to watch the percentage of income earners (major taxpayers) decline – an ever-shrinking pie.
\nNow bring this increasing population back home to Klees, the Promenade study and the other threads in Aurora\u2019s democratic fabric. As noted around the world in the past decade, the central platform of a successful democracy is the rule of law. That platform is supported by elected officials who make the laws and rules, civil servants who are employed to carry out and enforce the laws and rules and a judiciary to interpret the laws and settle disputes.
\nA town official plan, developed with public consultation, determines how and where the additional infrastructure and accommodations should go. These are co-ordinated and vetted by the region to ensure that the region satisfies the provincial targets.
\nTherefore, a developer challenge to a serious council decision, is really a challenge against the town plan, adopted by the regional and provincial governments.
\nAll three levels of government are therefore, co-defendants. This not just shifting the cost. It recognizes serious responsibilities at each level. If a council should make frivolous rulings, the region and province will deliver appropriate adult supervision.<\/p>\n

Gordon Barnes
\nAurora<\/strong><\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Recently, a Newmarket resident complained that too much programming at the Magna Centre over-filled the parking lots and resulted in parking fines. The April 9 edition of The Auroran displayed many other threads that weave a vibrant fabric in the region. Rosalyn Gonsalves advocated on behalf of drivers, not-yet condo-residents, in the N. E. Quadrant. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3D2k4-oh","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-22 08:57:07","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}