From Facebook –
Lynne Bard Says: Re: Does Desperate Banman Take Us All For Fools? Are you serious! How do you think you, Mike Archer and Vince Dimano (one of the jokes on the AbbotsfordFirst slate) think you will ever be able to be taken seriously. I’m not a big fan of Banman, but this article, and I use that term loosely for your blog, is an angry hate spewing mess. “Old White Men” seriously? Earlier this week, did you happen to submit a photo of Subban with the Canucks, and have your racist caption left on it?
Today Media OK. Cool down Lynne. All four of the people who killed the ACS proposal were old white men. Many (if not the majority) of the marginalized people whose lives they are destroying are young, aboriginal and female. What this has to do with Vince Dimanno or the AbbotsdFIRST group I have no idea. As for calling us racists, I don’t even know where to begin. That you can’t see the wool being pulled over your eyes perhaps says more about you than the ones trying to warn you. I would prefer if you could find something wrong with my argument than simply call me names.
What do you think?
Racism!? Lynne give your head a shake. Today Media owners Vince and Mike are definitely not that.
The city/ASDAC has not found any land for supportive housing and when the government came thru with the money in 2008, the city was scrambling to find land for the project and had to forgo the funding due to bad planning.
Fortunately, BC Housing provided the funds for the George Schmidt Centre at Kinghaven.
BC Housing came forward with an RFP to the City of Abbotsford and the proposal was granted to ACS due to its ability to provide the land, which the city did not have, once again.
In 2003, the ADBA and several Abbotsford Chamber supporters
voted down a 9 bed bridge house and 12 bed shelter on Cyril St.
Several community members donated near 60,000 to move the project forward and when the Sally Ann’s proposed to buy the lego building, despite warnings from residents in the area, council quickly pushed thru
approval of the Sally Ann’s in a commercial zoned area.
It has backfired, creating problems for business and residents in the area.
Tthe ACS proposal for a low barrier housing complex in C7 zone didn’t sit well with developers/investors in Historic DOwntown area and that is why the ADBA with support of the Abbotsford Chamber urged council to not approve project in a C7 zoned area.
Four members of council voted down the project in support of the
ADBA & the Abbotsford Chamber and thus lost the funding for a
low barrier housing project for homeless in Abbotsford, which many people are very unhappy about.
The city had rezoned an area called C7 commercial zone in Historic
Downtown Abbotsford and included ACS in this zoning, despite fact they are service providers.
When the ACS proposal went to public hearing, C7 zoning became
an issue and the city knew ACS was in the C7 zone.
Now, the city wants to quickly rezone the land on Gladys, in hopes of securing funding for the ACS project, which was voted down.
I was told the city originally bought the land for a future transit hub
from Mission.
The entire situation is a debacle! The homeless are caught in the
middle of it all. Most unfortunate!