The sorry end of the Wasaga Downtown plan

Here is sorry tale of mismanagement and waste on a colossal scale directly from the desk of the Mayor.

Those of you who can remember his last term may well remember the Downtown Plan to turn Main Street and the beachfront into a massive brand new shopping centre with high end shops and extensive condo developments.

Well, you may also remember our current CAO; Andrew McNeil saying that the lynchpin of this new development was the roundabout (designed by the world’s best roundabout designer) at 140 Main St. We absolutely NEEDED this land at 140 Main to make it happen. Remember the saga about its exponential rise in value in only a few years? What once was only a third of a million dollars became well over a million by the time it was settled and the town bought it.

Well the downtown plan sort of got mouldy and neglected and the plans for the roundabout grew stale so without any other plan 140 Main became the home of the town archives. Particularly useful given this councils decision to bulldoze much of its historical legacy. Anyway this councils decision just killed the archives, fired the staff and as a final tombstone to the Downtown Plan that Smith burned millions of dollars (tax dollars that is) they have declared 140 Main surplus.