Chris Schnurr wrote a well thought out blog post here in it he talks os the the vagueness of the term “Liveability”

Another overused word will be sustainability. That means different things to different people. My idea of sustainability leads to liveability making the second an outcome, not a strategy in itself. I think our city needs to facilitate new job growth. I choose that word carefully. What does sustainability mean to me?

• It means monetizing (transforming to a industry that provides jobs for our community and sells our local cultural identity to those outside of Windsor bringing money into our economy) our local arts and culture.
• It means putting residents in the core so that local main streets businesses/BIA’s have customers.
• It means stop subsidizing the building of new commercial space that when combined with negative job and population growth can only lead to the cannibalization of local businesses. This doesn’t mean we ban these developments, just stop subsidizing them (We subsidize with cheap, crappy site plan requirements and development charges that are less than the city’s cost)
• Sustainability means making it affordable for people to live in Windsor on the lower income jobs that are being produced or in this new retirement community strategy. Living and working without needing a car, being able to access a computer/internet for free, easily obtaining healthy food.

A Canal is an architectural feature in a much larger plan. Mr. Schnurr sometimes criticizes my position on this issue as moving all the time, however I see it as evolving and I am proud of that. I consider my position on the Canal feature as a “Fanatical Agnostic”, (the difference between that and a regular agnostic is that not only am I not sure if this feature will work, I’m DAMN sure you don’t know either) Only a survey of potential residents will decide what features or measures will work an which will not, anything else is unfounded speculation based on anecdotal evidence.

Some of the items in that plan are pretty darn good. A small transient marina with a ferry dock allows our core to connect with detroits’ core where some pretty wonderful things are happening in the middle of their devastated city. I’ve always felt the two nation destination strategy was a good one. Downtown Detroit is an adjacent neighborhood, a customer for our goods and services and a natural ally in our quest to solve our problems, many of which we share.

Now I’m not running for office, I’m just looking to support candidates who share my beliefs and values