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From: Arild Jensen (no email)
Date: Mon Oct 09 2006 - 12:47:15 EDT
Wally wrote:
What is overstay?
Is it a true problem? To whom?
One important enough to require legislation to ensure some rich persons
view is guaranteed diversity?
Think about that now!
REPLY
This problemis not confined to Florida.
I live on a mountain ridge ovelooking the Fraser river.
The river has been the commercial life blood of the area for 150 years.
Without this river commerce the area would not have grown.
Saw millused to line the banks and endless rows of pilings dot the edges of
the river.
Giant log booms are secured there until the saw mills can process the logs.
Land owners with property on the edge of the escarpment have a view of the
river, plus miles of bottom land adjacent to the river right out to the
distant horizon deliniated by the Northern Cascades some thirty or forty
miles away. Very scenic and picturesque!
However at one location an old ferry was tied to the bank along these piles
that were formerly used to secure log rafts..
Later on a newer but also out of service ferry was also secured alongside
the first one. The ferry owner is working on converting them to other uses.
One day I happen to stop and chat with one neighbor. We remarked on the
tremendous view his property had.
His wife complained that the ferries docked on the opposite river bank some
half a mile away spoilt her view and urged her husband to do something.
As it happens, he is the political campaign manager for one of the senior
cabinet ministers in our provinvcial govenment.
If anyone can, he will have the connections or clout to do something; but
is that right?
I happen to think the reminders of our industrial past adds an intersting
detail to the otherwise unfeatured pastoral view of unending green meadows
and tree covered lower slopes. But she doesn't like it, and her husband has
the political connections to do something.
The ferry in question is not even docked on their side of the river. The
ferry is there by consent and agreement of the land owner of the river bank
section in question. But you can't argue with these people about such
issues. Some of them feel that they have a god given right to manipulate
the world and the people in it to suit themselves simply because they have
power by virtue of their riches and influence.
regards
Arild
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