{"id":6091,"date":"2014-04-02T15:49:02","date_gmt":"2014-04-02T19:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=6091"},"modified":"2014-04-02T15:49:02","modified_gmt":"2014-04-02T19:49:02","slug":"heritage-district-letter-prompts-more-questions-than-answers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/heritage-district-letter-prompts-more-questions-than-answers\/","title":{"rendered":"Heritage District letter prompts more questions than answers"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Re: Resident surprised at \u201cfear mongering\u201d over Heritage District Plan, March 20)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Graham Wride\u2019s letter to the editor poses questions but provides no answers.
\nIt is heavy on criticism and light on facts and logic. It supports neighborhood heritage designation without arguing the merits.
\nOpponents with delegate status before Council are accused of \u201cfear mongering\u201d, \u201cmisinformation\u201d and \u201coutright untruths.\u201d
\nHe is confident when residents understand the merits they will \u201cembrace the concept.\u201d
\nMr. Wride does not choose to articulate the benefits as he understands them.
\nThe material advantage of surrendering one\u2019s property rights to the authority of bureaucracy remains elusive, despite Mr. Wride\u2019s best efforts.
\nMr. Bray, the consultant, had reported to Council, a \u201csignificant minority\u201d are opposed to the concept. That was before the other side of the coin was known.
\nThe opponents decided, as is their right, to exert their privilege to be heard and suggested to Council that opposition to the concept is considerably more substantial than the consultant has understood.
\nOn March 4, Mr. Bray informed Council there are 31 designated heritage neighborhoods in Ontario; one already in Aurora and a second proposed.
\nThere are 444 municipalities in Ontario.
\nNumbers do not suggest either overwhelming support for the concept nor a common understanding of the benefits.<\/p>\n

Concerned Citizens Southeast Quadrant
\nAurora
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(Re: Resident surprised at \u201cfear mongering\u201d over Heritage District Plan, March 20) Graham Wride\u2019s letter to the editor poses questions but provides no answers. It is heavy on criticism and light on facts and logic. It supports neighborhood heritage designation without arguing the merits. Opponents with delegate status before Council are accused of \u201cfear mongering\u201d, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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}},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters-opinion"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3D2k4-1Af","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-02 03:11:42","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6091","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=6091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}