Post by londonfan on Jul 9, 2021 19:41:58 GMT -5
Hi All:
After this Canada Day, London City hall received a whopping 68 complaints about fireworks. One of the city counselors says that he received half that many just at his ward office. (He represents a particularly bad fireworks ward.)
In 2017 the population of London proper was 404,699. I'm pretty sure that the welcome signs say 485,000 now. That means that at best, or worst, .016% of London's population were so upset, that they felt that their only recourse was to complain to city hall and have London's fireworks bylaw amended to ban loud fireworks. They would prefer none to silent only. At least one of the counselors is highly in favour of this, and they seem to have convinced others that our current bylaw should be reviewed.
Currently our bylaw allows for fireworks to be used on Victoria day, Canada Day, and the Saturday closest to Canada Day as an alternative.
Of course the big problem in London is, in a few areas, the fireworks go for 4 or 5 days.
The lady that was on our local news, and complains every year, twice a year, is determined to get 1000 signatures on her petition.
I want to pummel her petition into the ground!
Do any of you know of an existing counter petition that I could use to collect signatures?
I am a lousy Google searcher, and any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.
The annual complainer has kind of dropped the pets and wildlife points now and seems to be going on the mental health issue (P.T.S.D. & autism). The neat thing is that I can get probably get testimonials from 2 families with an autistic child each, that love fireworks, and a neighbour that suffered P.T.S.D. from 20 years of war in South America.
Thanks in advance for any help you all can give me in fighting the interests on this very vocal, very small minority.
londonfan
After this Canada Day, London City hall received a whopping 68 complaints about fireworks. One of the city counselors says that he received half that many just at his ward office. (He represents a particularly bad fireworks ward.)
In 2017 the population of London proper was 404,699. I'm pretty sure that the welcome signs say 485,000 now. That means that at best, or worst, .016% of London's population were so upset, that they felt that their only recourse was to complain to city hall and have London's fireworks bylaw amended to ban loud fireworks. They would prefer none to silent only. At least one of the counselors is highly in favour of this, and they seem to have convinced others that our current bylaw should be reviewed.
Currently our bylaw allows for fireworks to be used on Victoria day, Canada Day, and the Saturday closest to Canada Day as an alternative.
Of course the big problem in London is, in a few areas, the fireworks go for 4 or 5 days.
The lady that was on our local news, and complains every year, twice a year, is determined to get 1000 signatures on her petition.
I want to pummel her petition into the ground!
Do any of you know of an existing counter petition that I could use to collect signatures?
I am a lousy Google searcher, and any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.
The annual complainer has kind of dropped the pets and wildlife points now and seems to be going on the mental health issue (P.T.S.D. & autism). The neat thing is that I can get probably get testimonials from 2 families with an autistic child each, that love fireworks, and a neighbour that suffered P.T.S.D. from 20 years of war in South America.
Thanks in advance for any help you all can give me in fighting the interests on this very vocal, very small minority.
londonfan
