Sutcliffe’s Slick, Vague, Unfair Lansdowne Video

This is a really disappointing, but very slick, Lansdowne video from Mayor Mark Sutcliffe.

It is low on facts, high on inuendo.

Sutcliffe treatment of well-meaning citizens who oppose the project in unfair. They provide more facts around Lansdowne than the mayor does. For example, Sutcliffe neglects to note that the City of Ottawa hasn’t made a nickel from Lansdowne 1.0. In fact, the so-called waterfall of city money is poured into a maintenance fund, so the plan was designed so that the city makes nothing from it but has enormous capital and debt costs.

That’s just one example.

A mayor should rise above the fray and lead, not issue propaganda like this. He should not demean his worthy opponents.

I know some of the opponents of Lansdowne and they don’t live in the Glebe thus the unfortunate branding of NIMBYism is wrong and appalling that it is used against some of the finest and most-capable people in the community.

NIMBYism is the biggest slur in municipal public policy and name-calling of the worst order.

That’s not in the job description of a good mayor.

People are tired of being told what a good deal Lansdowne is when it is not. Any profit for the city in those residential towers being constructed on-site? Who pays the capital costs of this project? What about the interest that appears in the operating budget that already has a hole in it?

Where’s the revenue for the city for a half-billion dollars.

And the characterization of the new central library is deceptive. It is a city partnership with the federal government. Furthermore, don’t forget the city’s terrible history with big projects such as Lansdowne 1.0 and light rail. This city isn’t capable of producing successful big projects

This is not how a mayor should act.

What happened to the journalist in Mayor Mark Sutcliffe?

Ken Gray

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The Office Is Dead: RICHARD FLORIDA

Lansdowne: Sketchy Bluster From Denley: GRAY

Lansdowne Bad Economics: CHERNUSHENKO

Get Out Of Lansdowne While You Still Can: GRAY

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