Citizens of Parksville, have your property taxes been going up? Ours have, by a lot, for the past three years.
I’m looking at the “parking lot” created by city hall at Jensen and the Alberni Hwy — two houses torn down and the field left as grass and dirt and a lot of cars parked there. This property is not earning tax revenue. People who park there are doing so for free. How about a nominal daily fee ($1) that could be added to our tax coffers and maybe build a sidewalk over time?
How about the property at 222 Corfield St. South that will be leased out for $1 a year for 25 years? How many other properties around here are city owned and providing no revenue for the city? Business owners and property owners need to know the cost of all these taxes our city is passing on to us. We cannot get certain streets paved, nor sidewalks put in residential areas that really need them.
Being told that there is an election in October if we don’t like the current situation, I feel that council is believing that they can govern by taking their cue from Donald Trump.
Norma Reimer
Parksville
