According to this Stoney Creek News article, the Old Fire Hall on Lake Avenue South is slated to be demolished. While this saddens me, I'm not writing so much about its history, or its place in the community. Nor am I writing about the whispered iteration of this site, what's going to become of the space.
No, I'm writing about what this development does to two very pivotal elements of the 'Neverending Story'-ish metered parking brouhaha in Downtown Stoney Creek. (In fact, the third portion of this 'Non-business Triumvirate of Core Arguments Rallied Against the Demon Horde Known as The City of Hamilton And Their Public Parking Revenue Curse' is also apparently -in due time- set to leave the stage...but I'm getting ahead of myself just a bit, here.)
If you go back into the recent mists of time and take a look at Stoney Creek News articles about our 'paid parking crisis', if you read carefully, you'll see that a major thrust of the 'We can't have this happen here!' faction was how utterly debilitating the effect of charging rental for car spaces would be on three distinct entities, two of them housed within the Old Fire Hall: Seniors Outreach Services and the Stoney Creek Food bank. (The third one I promise to get to presently. Be patient, Gentle Reader...) The argument was that paid parking would be catastrophic for these two groups. Chicken Little stood back in admiration and awe at how this part of the overall discussion was handled...and she took notes.
So.
The Old Fire Hall is coming down.
The Stoney Creek Food Bank and Seniors Outreach Services are being relocated. (And, seeing as you've displayed such patience, allow me to say that because of a suggestion of a rumour of a grapevine intimation, it appears that the Royal Canadian Legion is- Well, available for consideration, sale-wise...or is perhaps approaching that state.)
Which means that whenever the 'discussion' about paid parking in Downtown Stoney Creek enters its next phase, what had previously been paraded as three heartstring-tugging, front-of-that-very-parade elements...
...will have been removed once and for all from the discussion.
And already, before any of these developments have actually unfolded, my curiosity has been piqued to adrenaline-coursing levels. I can hardly wait to see how the Ostrich-worshiping People the Stoney Creek News featured so prominently in their coverage will foment their rebellion against the despicable 'tax' levied by the overlords at City Hall.
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