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Don White wrote:
Reginald P. Smithers III wrote:
Don White wrote:

Reginald P. Smithers III wrote:

Bill Kearney wrote:

Development has been fairly slow coming to these areas and the locals
have had use of the islands for generations. Someone buys up the
property, uses it for a few weeks each summer and then guards it
like a
national treasure the rest of the year. No one allowed on or near the
islands. Some even try to evict boaters anchoring in the coves...
although they only own property above the high water mark.



Yeah, imagine why they'd be upset to come back during those few
weeks only
to find those freeloaders had peed and **** all over the place, lit
fires,
left trash and generally made a mess of it. Of course, they'd be
rightfully
rather mad about it and seek ways to keep the rabble out.


I love Halifax, I wonder if Don would let me camp out in his backyard?



As long as you don't bring any 'rich Americans' with you.


Don thanks, we plan on having a family reunion with only about 50
people, and it will be nice to be able to use your backyard for a
picnic and gathering. Is it ok if we dump our portapotties in your
front yard?

We do have indoor plumbing. Are your relatives toilet trained?
If not we might be able to rent a few 'Johnny on the Spots' for the
outhouse set.
The more the merrier. We have really hungry red ants back there that
haven't had a decent meal in a while.

Don,
Great so you don't mind if we tromp through your house also to use the
bathrooms? I am planning on setting up a web page with directions to
your home and letting everyone know that "Su Casa es Nuestra Casa".

Since you have given everyone ready access to your home and gardens, why
don't you just deed your home over the state?

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Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Mon, 04 Dec 2006 15:57:05 GMT, Don White
wrote:

Don thanks, we plan on having a family reunion with only about 50
people, and it will be nice to be able to use your backyard for a picnic
and gathering. Is it ok if we dump our portapotties in your front yard?
We do have indoor plumbing. Are your relatives toilet trained?

ROTFL!!!!

Points to DW... :)

I think it is very nice of Don not to mind if we use his toilets, I have
never really enjoyed using portapotties.

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thunder wrote:
On Mon, 04 Dec 2006 07:11:20 -0500, P Fritz wrote:


I see that sort of crap all the time with developments I work on. The
surrounding neighbors pour into the Planning Commision meetings whining
about how they use 'X' piece of land for picnics etc, and how we should
not be allowed to develop it. They never want to buy it, even when
offered. They just want to continue to leach off of others. Why am I
not surprised that donny is of the same ilk?

Nor does it surprise me that one of your ilk is incapable of
understanding anything past the end of your nose. Nova Scotia is not the
United States. The Right to Roam is a traditional concept cherished by
many Nova Scotians, not just Don.

http://ccns.chebucto.org/Right_to_Roam.pdf

There is a certain set of people who just can't understand any concept
that isn't as you say, right in front of their noses. These people only
believe what the RNC tells them to believe.

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Kaui'i got caught in a catch 22 of sorts, when they let Marriott build
theire hugh resort there. When they saw the size of the thing, the
county (island council) put a kabash on any other operation that there
won't be any other new building erected that is taller than a palm
tree.

1, that halted a lot of further development because they didn't want
the island to turn into another Honolulu.

2. it was good for Marriott, because the island council themselves
warded off a lot of other competetion that would want to build there to
out do Marriott.

So, I would suppose that the council not only did the island a favor,
but also helped Marriott as well.

win-win situation??

Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Mon, 04 Dec 2006 07:11:20 -0500, P Fritz wrote:

I see that sort of crap all the time with developments I work on. The
surrounding neighbors pour into the Planning Commision meetings whining
about how they use 'X' piece of land for picnics etc, and how we should
not be allowed to develop it. They never want to buy it, even when
offered. They just want to continue to leach off of others. Why am I
not surprised that donny is of the same ilk?

I get offers from developers all the time and the first question I ask
them is how much open space they plan and how do they plan to allow
others to use it.

I've never had a satisfactory answer to that - ever - from a
developer.

From my perspective, developers need to take into account the users of
the land, not just the owners.

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Reginald P. Smithers III wrote:

Don,
Great so you don't mind if we tromp through your house also to use the
bathrooms? I am planning on setting up a web page with directions to
your home and letting everyone know that "Su Casa es Nuestra Casa".

Since you have given everyone ready access to your home and gardens, why
don't you just deed your home over the state?


You're starting to sound like one of them 'rich 'mericans'.
Go into someone else's country, run ram shod all over them & then tell
them what to do with their home, property, possessions state etc.
Oh wait a minute... that's your government you're imitating!

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Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
snip..

Hmmmm - some to think of it, if I did buy Canada, I'd keep Quebec and
get rid of the rest of it - well, except for the oil fields. :)


You'd better bone up on your French first. It's the law in Quebec.

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Don White wrote:
Reginald P. Smithers III wrote:

Don,
Great so you don't mind if we tromp through your house also to use the
bathrooms? I am planning on setting up a web page with directions to
your home and letting everyone know that "Su Casa es Nuestra Casa".

Since you have given everyone ready access to your home and gardens,
why don't you just deed your home over the state?


You're starting to sound like one of them 'rich 'mericans'.
Go into someone else's country, run ram shod all over them & then tell
them what to do with their home, property, possessions state etc.
Oh wait a minute... that's your government you're imitating!

Wait, I just misunderstood you, you mean Canadians should have property
rights, but those rights should not be extended to non Canadians. That
should be a simple solution, just nationalize all property owned by non
Canadians. Cuba did the same thing when Castro took over.

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Reginald P. Smithers III wrote:
Don White wrote:

Reginald P. Smithers III wrote:


Don,
Great so you don't mind if we tromp through your house also to use
the bathrooms? I am planning on setting up a web page with
directions to your home and letting everyone know that "Su Casa es
Nuestra Casa".

Since you have given everyone ready access to your home and gardens,
why don't you just deed your home over the state?



You're starting to sound like one of them 'rich 'mericans'.
Go into someone else's country, run ram shod all over them & then tell
them what to do with their home, property, possessions state etc.
Oh wait a minute... that's your government you're imitating!


Wait, I just misunderstood you, you mean Canadians should have property
rights, but those rights should not be extended to non Canadians. That
should be a simple solution, just nationalize all property owned by non
Canadians. Cuba did the same thing when Castro took over.

A neighbouring province has restrictions on how much property can be
held by non-residents and at one time taxed non-residents property at a
higher rate than locals.

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Don White wrote:
Reginald P. Smithers III wrote:
Don White wrote:

Reginald P. Smithers III wrote:


Don,
Great so you don't mind if we tromp through your house also to use
the bathrooms? I am planning on setting up a web page with
directions to your home and letting everyone know that "Su Casa es
Nuestra Casa".

Since you have given everyone ready access to your home and gardens,
why don't you just deed your home over the state?



You're starting to sound like one of them 'rich 'mericans'.
Go into someone else's country, run ram shod all over them & then
tell them what to do with their home, property, possessions state etc.
Oh wait a minute... that's your government you're imitating!


Wait, I just misunderstood you, you mean Canadians should have
property rights, but those rights should not be extended to non
Canadians. That should be a simple solution, just nationalize all
property owned by non Canadians. Cuba did the same thing when Castro
took over.

A neighbouring province has restrictions on how much property can be
held by non-residents and at one time taxed non-residents property at a
higher rate than locals.

So is that what you are recommending for Halifax? What if a Canadian
owns property on the water, should he be able to restrict the public
from using this property anyway they want? If all property on the water
was available to all Canadian citizens (we wouldn't want to have any
"foreigners" up there) it would save Canadians a ton of money on public
parks. I think you have come up with a great idea. I am curious, why
didn't the Canadian government buy the land when it was cheap to insure
public access for future generations? Sounds to me like you are venting
your frustration at the wrong people.

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Reginald P. Smithers III wrote:

So is that what you are recommending for Halifax? What if a Canadian
owns property on the water, should he be able to restrict the public
from using this property anyway they want? If all property on the water
was available to all Canadian citizens (we wouldn't want to have any
"foreigners" up there) it would save Canadians a ton of money on public
parks. I think you have come up with a great idea. I am curious, why
didn't the Canadian government buy the land when it was cheap to insure
public access for future generations? Sounds to me like you are venting
your frustration at the wrong people.


Venting? Actually, I started off just posting some good news that might
be interesting to local and even international cruising boaters.
JohnH got very defensive and now you are doing what you do best.