Editor:
Cidnee Wind should look a few degrees up and enjoy the mountains around town and stop staring at what is parked in someone else’s driveway.
The “Town” is just fine appearance-wise. When I see a partially restored sports car in a driveway, a couple of canoes on a stand, a yard done in local fauna, stone work, and wild flowers (Ms. Wind might say this is an eyesore as well!), I see life in action.
Variety within my neighbourhood is what makes a community and it shows normal vibrancy that a town needs. What she would ask of council is to make Canmore the physical reality of an architect’s rendition of a neighbourhood.
I don’t own an RV, trailer or any other vehicular offence (in her books), but this arrogance and busybody attitude is not welcome in any community I live in.
We do have one gated community that might suit her, or many of the condo complexes, for example, would keep her happy. They would have an extensive list of bylaws that these kind of folks must love.
In the 11 years I have lived here, I have heard of several complaints to by-law/condo boards about vehicles that are “too ugly” to park “there”. Holy crap, what a bull scat pile of crap that is.
If you don’t have a town with some good ol’ boys and their families living here, who is going to run this town, pour your coffee, fix your car, paint your house, unplug your drain…
We have a wonderful mix of intellect, lifestyle and nationality and we do not need more damn rules to pacify one sterile, live in a pretty box demographic. She said it wasn’t her problem… well, if you are not part of a solution your ARE part of the problem… ‘nuff said.
Michael Melville,
