Under the heading: “City’s Five-
Year Plan Lacks Vigorous, Dyna-
mic Touch,’ Paddy Neale, Vancou-
ee and District Labor Council sec-
etary, discusses an important issue
before the voters in the coming

_ vic election. We present below
Some of the main points made by
eale in his article.

WwW: welcome the basic idea of
: a planned medium-term pro-
&Tam of civic development such
4S the five-year plan represents.
Unfortunately, we regret that
Upon examination, we find that the
Current proposals have many

Shortcomings, and are permeated

pth Conservative and hesitant
Mancial attitudes,

“Our general impression ofthe
fecommendations is that their
basic underly-
ing premise is
not to set out a
program which
would properly
meet the needs
of the people of
Vancouver ...
but to spread
around the
minimum pos-

Sible amount of money in acare-
ful and logical manner,

“The recommendation of
$3,875,000 for local streets,
Sidewalks and lanes, is based on
¢ 40-year completion rate, We
?elieve that this is totally in-
Adequate, and will only retard the

€velopment of Vancouver, and
fave our streets increasingly

Inadequate during the next 40
Years,

BACK 5-YR. PLAN

Vancouver’s Outside Civic
°rkers will campaign for a
Yes” vote on the city’s 5-year
ne which will be put before

€rs in the Dec. 9 election, This
8S revealed in the current issue
® the union’s newsbulletin,

It states that “while we agree
at a plan of wide scope would
© desirable, the fact remains
; at City Council has decided on
$ $63.5 million plan and that
44.2 million will go to rate-
pavers for approval,”

The union says it will be bad

r the city if the plan is re-
lected, :

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| Labor gives its view
of city 5-year plan

“.. . Similarly, the objective
of 80 percent adequate street
lighting in 20 years is. we believe,
inadequate, . . . Another proposal
expressed readiness to accept
the existing facilities of the Fa-
mily and Children’s Court, We
believe that the people serviced
by this body are too important to
be hampered by over-crowded

and inadequate facilities.

“... We cannot accept the con-
clusion in the report to make no
allocation for the necessary ex-
pansion of facilities at the Motor
Vehicle Testing Station, While
we agree with the suggestion that
this service should cover the
metropolitan area with a sub-
stantial part of the cost being
borne by the provincial govern-
ment, we do not believe that the
matter can be left on that basis,

“With respect to hospitals, we
are in sympathy with the financial
problems these present to muni-
cipal governments all over the
province, It is our policy that all
hospital costs, operating or capi-
tal, should be borne by senior
governments, ...

“We would submit that the re-
fusal to provide for anew museum
is a short-sighted approach, No
North American or European city
can properly consider itself a
civilized urban community with-
out such basic cultural facilities,
Certainly the absence of such
facilities would relegate Vancou-
ver to the status of an under-
developed community, Again we
would urge that. the necessary
provisions be included in the
plan, ,

“We have not touched on the
many proposals in the five-year
plan with which we are in agree-
ment, . . . Objection may be
raised to many of our criticisms
on the grounds that they would
necessitate a substantial in-
crease in the amount of money

’ needed for the plan,

“We would make no apology for
this fact, . . . Experience with
other cities has proven time and
again, that a city adopting a bold
and imaginative program of ur-
ban improvement ends up far
more able to cope with financial
problems than a city which al-
lowed itself to stagnate,”

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