After I had sent in my questionnaire for the Outlook, they called and said they were scrapping it and just asking a few questions. Since it was done, here it is.
NAME:
George
Pringle
1) Occupation, marital status, children (w/ages) and neighbourhood in which you
reside?
Assistant
Apartment Manager ,Single, Lower Lonsdale (Keith Road)
2) What kind of car do you drive? (make, model and year)
Transit
user until there is an affordable hydrogen fueled car
3) Would you like to see the Harry Jerome rec centre renovated or rebuilt?
Rebuild
the most important functions as a phase one and ask residents for funding
through a referendum. Never allow park
and recreation land to be turned into high rise towers to fund Harry Jerome. We should consider alternate funding like
selling naming rights if the funds donated are large enough.
4) Would you support amalgamating North Vancouver District and City?
Unite North Vancouver. A key point of my campaign is to hold a referendum
on amalgamation with the District. We
have to act before the Province forces an amalgamation on all Vancouver,
Toronto style which would be one council for all the Lower Mainland with two
elected per provincial riding.
5) Would you like to keep the RCMP or have a regional police force?
I’d
rather have a BC Police Force to get the Ottawa bureaucratic way and their
rules out but it would cost too much money.
Regional based police would have us subsidizing Vancouver and the
downtown eastside. Keep the RCMP but get
more power for a local North Van Police Board.
6) In terms of residential growth, would you like to see:
b) growth of less than 1% a year; We could be redeveloping the older shops on
Lonsdale and maintaining the general
style of a non-chain storefront stores with a second floor for small offices or
residences instead of the Lonsdale 180
foot high canyon that is now going up.
7) Biggest challenge currently facing the City?
Addiction
to growth. Council’s building an unsustainable house of cards to keep their
budget ever growing. Someday the room for development will run out. It’s only a question of what we create. 200,000 person Yaletown2 or a sustainable
community? The new OCP must have more
certainty and tangible growth limits.
8) Three specific steps to solving North Van's affordable housing crisis?
There
is not a solution to address affordable housing when most of Canada and many in
the world want to move here. Same old
promises during re-election but all we see is expensive condo towers. Existing
tenants need their rights protected and health, safety, licensing and disabled
access laws followed.
9) In 50 words or less, sum up your desire to be an elected municipal
official.
In
the Mayor’s re-election site it is obvious he only sees a North Van
driven by “a period of unprecedented growth”.
those who disagree with Darryl and his slate.
10) Your election slogan and website:
Respect
the citizen’s OCP
www.pringle4mayor.ca