{"id":6001,"date":"2014-03-26T14:33:16","date_gmt":"2014-03-26T18:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=6001"},"modified":"2014-03-26T14:33:16","modified_gmt":"2014-03-26T18:33:16","slug":"parking-lot-is-the-pragmatic-option-for-library-square-for-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/parking-lot-is-the-pragmatic-option-for-library-square-for-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Parking lot is the \u201cpragmatic\u201d option for Library Square for now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>(Re: Politics As Usual \u2013 \u201cFailure to Consult\u201d, March 13, 2014)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kudos to Alison Collins-Mrakas for pinpointing that legislation often excludes the public from public planning. Equal kudos to Councillors last Tuesday for decisions that go the second mile on public consultation.<br \/>\nThe omnipresent elephant in the room &#8211; downtown parking problems &#8211; got lick and a promise &#8211; better things to come.<br \/>\nConsider that Library Square discussions have failed to ignite excitement about a solution.<br \/>\nAnd consider that several writers, Councillors and residents, seemingly in exasperation, have suggested it should be a parking lot.<br \/>\nThere may be wisdom in that pragmatic solution now.<br \/>\nWhen the exciting solution comes along, the parking lot will be waiting for development.<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nGordon Barnes<br \/>\nAurora<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Re: Politics As Usual \u2013 \u201cFailure to Consult\u201d, March 13, 2014) Kudos to Alison Collins-Mrakas for pinpointing that legislation often excludes the public from public planning. Equal kudos to Councillors last Tuesday for decisions that go the second mile on public consultation. The omnipresent elephant in the room &#8211; downtown parking problems &#8211; got lick [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters-opinion"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6001","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=6001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}