Re: (Gazette, Dec. 30, 2015)

A 2008 planning report on development trends in Calgary stated, B次元官网网址淐algary operates under the Unicity model, which means that planning and growth management decisions are made by one central municipal council. The Unicity model is intended as an efficient way to direct growth in the entire area, and has potential to facilitate a meaningful understanding of inter-relationships between city core and suburban areas.B次元官网网址�

I was touched by the letter from Leah Brennan in the same edition of the Gazette. But her concerns about traffic management in Langford are the same as everywhere else. And yet any decision needed in that City, in spite of most traffic being regional, will only be paid for by the City of Langford, unless it tries to partner with other jurisdictions. Regional traffic should be organized by one or two (three?) authorities, not the 12 or 13 as is the case now. ItB次元官网网址檚 a joke, but itB次元官网网址檚 not funny.

That View Royal touches five other municipalities is absurd. ItB次元官网网址檚 the size of a neighbourhood. There is endless scrapping among the little princedoms comprising Greater Victoria (Canada Post identifies most of our addresses as B次元官网网址淰ictoriaB次元官网网址�) over the need for standard civic services. The current model sees duplication of such normal every day civic services as fire departments, policing, libraries, road construction, bylaws, roads, tax structures and all else. The plethora of civic councils (taxpayers between Sooke and the Saanich Peninsula support an aggregate of 81 mayors and councillors) are obviously B次元官网网址� just watch/read local news services B次元官网网址� out of date and counterproductive.

Does it take more courage to work together within one or two sensibly organized cities, or continue the stupefying and unnecessary costs, delays and confusion of a rabble of little principalities? ItB次元官网网址檚 easy and fun for little frogs to appear as big frogs when in their own little ponds. But there is no reasonable argument at this point in the history of this beautiful and fast-growing region to continue what we have now: the most inefficient system of municipal government for this region that anyone could conceive.

Rod Smith

View Royal