Members of Regina city council would be well advised not to try out for roles in any local musicals. They are tone deaf.
This council brought forward the idea of mandatory fire sprinklers in newly constructed homes starting next year. Ultimately, the idea was set aside but the fact that the idea even made it through Executive Committee to a full-blown council meeting raises questions.
This is the very same city council that only recently pledged millions to eliminate homelessness then followed it up with a harebrained scheme to raise the cost of housing with mandatory sprinklers. This at a time when everyone – council members included – feel we need more housing and they decide to make it more expensive, not more easily accessible.
Without doubt, new home buyers would get their properties, but they’d be in satellite communities. Ironically, at a time when the city needs more assessment to pay for housing programs for the homeless it came within a whisker of chasing the assessment to pay for the plan into neighboring communities.
