A Voice for Change in Canmore
I’m running for town council for a few reasons. #1 I’ve seen too many great people leave Canmore! People that worked hard and loved it here, people that were born here were forced to leave because their rents were jacked up or my heavens because they have a pet and they don’t want to abandon them, or their trailer they owned needed to go, or their rental property became short term accommodations. These last 10 years it has become nuts. Full disclosure, myself and my rental situation- I’ve lived on 4 street for 22 years, a lovely old miners home, the lease this last May came with “we are going to develop the property”. Totally legal but any day I can get the phone call from the landlady and I have 3 months. Over the years thats $280,000 in rent. In hindsight, the Grotto village was just being built back then and for $99,000 I’d be sitting pretty but alas if you don’t have a down payment, you're a renter.
#2 is the vision of Canmore. What are we honestly thinking? I witnessed when the highway was shut due to that bad accident last month, EMS vehicles could not move. The roads are so narrow you can’t pull over. We are constricting traffic so people will bike and not take their cars. We have to give the tourists a place to park. A parkade on town land is the only answer after the shenanigans we’ve done to the roads. Include the paid parking in this, why is the person working at Beamers not given a pass to park? We have to support our locals! Drive down past the pond, it’s sooo tight because you park there without paying, once again what about EMS vehicles?
