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In most cases, where key numbers are used, I have provided links to the City of Kamloops documents used to calculate those numbers. In some cases I have also provided spreadsheets. --------------------------------- Every time an election comes around, every time a public housing project or beautification project is announced, every time a government of some kind makes some kind of investment in something - you can anticipate a waterfall of comments on Social Media of two varieties "how about fixing the potholes" or "how about feeding the hungry". In this hyperbole, the waterfall of comments is as predictable as the gravity that pulls that water to the ground. Political rhetoric is surrounded by a two-sided, binary, coin of social progressives insisting that paying high taxes is worth it to be a moral, just, fair human of good conscience. Meanwhile, folks who value personal liberty and freedom, and see caring as a personal act, not one for the government to for...

Quick a little pre-amble! If you have never read any of my thoughts on Urbanism, you may not know how I feel! I love walkable places, I love taking transit, but I am not motivated at all to force anyone from their cars, or force anyone to live in an apartment. I just really want a regulatory system in our City and in our Country that allows me to live the way I want, and you to live the way you want, and to have the costs of each lifestyle shared equitably. Ultimately I want to lower mine and your taxes, and I want to stop the encroaching of our suburban style of development further and further into the beautiful nature that makes our Province and Country so spectacular. I want to remove regulation and leave people to make their own choices - and sometimes regulation is quite contradictory. That is what I want to highlight in this letter to City Council shortly after the council voted against adopting the new Kamloops Transportation Plan. ---------------------------------------------...