{"id":6494,"date":"2014-04-30T14:37:10","date_gmt":"2014-04-30T18:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=6494"},"modified":"2014-04-30T14:37:10","modified_gmt":"2014-04-30T18:37:10","slug":"fear-mongering-comment-over-hcd-is-patronizing-councillor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/fear-mongering-comment-over-hcd-is-patronizing-councillor\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cFear mongering\u201d comment over HCD is \u201cpatronizing\u201d: Councillor"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Re: Historian hopes \u201creason will prevail\u201d in Heritage District debate, April 24)<\/em><\/p>\n

Mr. McIntyre is the self-appointed guru of all things historical in the Town of Aurora.
\nHis optics may be more than slightly skelly-eyed as a consequence.
\nNot every property owner is in a position to seriously propose the municipality acquire his property for some artsy-fartsy, airy-fairy, nonsensical notion of a four acre \u201cheritage park\u201d
\nEven at a discount, the deal is no bargain to people working at several jobs to pay a mortgage, or rent, and put food on the table or a child through university.
\nHis idea of \u201cfear-mongering by a few\u201d is the same dismissive, insufferably patronizing comment Councillor Abel was compelled to apologize for on Wednesday evening.
\nTo his credit, the latter did make his apology in public. It was the second time.
\nContent expressed on behalf of residents of the Northeast Heritage District is not real and John McIntyre is not their spokesperson.
\nIf that project was being proposed at this time, there might have been a very different outcome.
\nHow long would it take, I wonder, for landlords to acquire fine old homes in heritage districts and turn them into student housing, rented by the inch, had the university pitch been successful?
\nHow long would they remain fine old homes at the hands of students?<\/p>\n

Councillor Evelyn Buck
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(Re: Historian hopes \u201creason will prevail\u201d in Heritage District debate, April 24) Mr. McIntyre is the self-appointed guru of all things historical in the Town of Aurora. His optics may be more than slightly skelly-eyed as a consequence. Not every property owner is in a position to seriously propose the municipality acquire his property for […]<\/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-6494","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\/p3D2k4-1GK","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-01 09:58:04","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\/6494","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=6494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}