Comment 74553

By moylek (registered) - website | Posted February 20, 2012 at 08:50:27

Of course, Hamilton has experienced sweeping, policy-driven, top-down change before. We're still experiencing it today: one-way urban expressways, the razing of York Boulevard, the plopping of enormous masonry monoliths overtop of vital streets (Jackson Square; the McMaster hospital).

I agree that Hamilton's model for enacting its transforming vision falls somewhere between "flawed" and "feckless". But I do wonder if that's not saved us some pain as well as some progress.

That said, our penchant for endless consultation followed by inactivity is embarrassing. It's one thing to support the status quo or to argue for slow, incremental change - but it's quite another to preach progress and consultative democracy while practicing obstructionist beauracracy.

So how do we change city hall so that things get done? And how do we make sure that the things that are done don't just do more damage?

-- Kenneth Moyle Hamilton, Ontario

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