It was disappointing to hear the negative comments from other west-side members of City Council’s Planning and Environment Committee regarding Councillor Peggy Feltmate’s motion for a moratorium on development, pending a solution to persistent flooding problems in the area (Councillors reject Kanata development ban, Patrick Dare, Ottawa Citizen, Aug. 26, 2009).
It is also wrong that leadership on this issue is being left to members of city council. Why are expert members of city staff not coming forward to council with recommendations? There is clearly a lot of work to do before this problem is fully understood and a viable solution can be implemented. Why invite the possibility of further disasters to householders in the area by proceeding as if there is not a problem? Hopefully sounder minds will prevail when the motion is debated in a couple of weeks.
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