Comments on: Letter to City Council regarding the City Centre Airport

By: Richard Bunky Bell

Richard Bunky Bell — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:48:16 +0000

Thanks for the template and contact lists etc Mack. It’s well written and much appreciated.
Letters have been sent to both the Mayor and to my representing councilors.
Let’s hope we can sway some votes before it’s too late.

By: Mack D. Male

Mack D. Male — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:38:19 +0000

Yeah that’s a good point Paul. We need to put this issue behind us, and a partial decision won’t do that.

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:35:06 +0000

You forgot one other option that many governments seem to love and that is the compromise that makes everyone upset. Please urge them to not try to find some partial solution like closing one runway and keeping the airport open for private planes and medivac flights.

By: Mack D. Male

Mack D. Male — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:07:42 +0000

There’s a letter template here:
http://www.notmyairport.ca/contact-council/

By: Mack D. Male

Mack D. Male — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 05:34:36 +0000

Thanks for your comments Jerry & Bruce.

Richard – Thanks. I’d prefer if you didn’t cut/paste the letter word-for-word, actually. Feel free to use parts of it though. Actually, check back in the morning…I’ll have something you can use

By: Richard Bunky Bell

Richard Bunky Bell — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 05:32:05 +0000

Excellent Mack. As I have listened as well vicariously through your reports and Tweets I know I could not have said it better.
If it’s ok with you Mack I would like cut and paste your letter and send it to my council-persons with my own sig file attached.
Please let me know if you have any objection.
Richard

By: Bruce Winter

Bruce Winter — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 05:31:20 +0000

Astute insight Mack. The debate is and always has been about entitlement. A small coterie of business men, supposed community leaders, have held the community hostage to a vision of the past, that vanished long ago. That part of the debate has been rather sad.

However, it is encouraging that those you represent can articulate a new vision. It may still take awhile for those who control things, now, to accept a changing of the guard in this berg. Entitlement is difficult to give up.

The politics of the issue is critical too. It is quid pro quo agendas and alliance building that determines the outcome of these issues. Basically, who owes who for other votes,on other issues. Doing the right thing, is a foreign concept, when it comes to politics.

Don’t bet the house, ECCA will be closed.

By: Jerry Aulenbach, REALTOR®, BEd

Jerry Aulenbach, REALTOR®, BEd — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 04:53:18 +0000

I’ve been on the fence for a while on this. The nostalgia and that feeling of unused potential has always made me want to see it revitalized, but it’s not going to happen. There would have been a strong, unified, industry push by now if that were viable, and there has not been. Let’s move on, close it down, and watch the magic that will come over downtown Edmonton. Le’t start fighting for a really tall tower, something that has been an impossibility because of the present situation.

-Jerry