Day use visitation has gone parabolic. There is no plan at City Hall to deal with it. We are being overrun. Cars parking on the highway, dogs everywhere, people lined up to use the free showers, campers everywhere Does anyone at City Hall give a ---- or are they so tied to the tourism sector that they can,t see the forest for the trees. This isn't going to go away in Sept. It is the new normal. The whole community serving the interests of $400.00 a night while people sleep in the streets and shit in the bushes. I guess current realities don't fit into Councils strategic priorities. Straws, Reconciliation, Climate Change, Temporary Use Permits instead of Development permits and Building Permits, "Conversations" instead of water in the pipes, "education" instead of bylaw enforcement.
Is there anyone down there who has some practical frontal lobe executive function.
Things are completely out of control with no enforcement, where is the Mayor and Council? With all the cars parked illegally on the highway in front of Cox Bay and 70 km speed limit, it is just a matter of time before someone gets killed on the road. Both the District and the highways ministry have been warned of this dangerous situation, yet nothing has been done.
Whatever happened to the Mayors Task Force that was started at the beginning of the pandemic? Wasn't she trying to tout the idea of moving away from being dependent on tourism? Where's this task force now?
bylaw enforcement needed no doubt but how many of those complaining have nightly rentals? Noticed Josieland is for sale? was it rezoned? i wonder who will buy it?
The day use crowd come here cause it costs to go to the National Park. In Tofino, park and shower for free. You can even overnight at one of our fine beach parking lots. The word is out . Bylaw will only try to "educate" you, if they show up at all. Covid or no Covid the numbers on our beaches is increasing dramatically year after year, and contributes little to the economy or upkeep.
Problem with Bylaw is that to do the job they will want another half dozen place holders. And probably won't address the issues any better than now. But guess who would have pay for that. The residents of Tofino, be careful what you wish for.
To adequately pay for bylaw enforcement we need revenue from the day use crowd. Now figure that one out.
Number of surfers, has quadrupled in a few years. Little to do with Covid. They all didn't decide to buy a surfboard because of some disease. Tofino better figure something out because this will impact the image and desirability of Tofino as a destination for those who pay to come here. What if the paying customers start going elsewhere. Fourty people in line for the bank machine. Let's just go to Ucluelet it's "normal" there.
9:37 start pay parking and paying for showers is how we will pay for it. 9:48 The surfer problem will go away when the sea otters wipe out the sea urchins and the kelp beds grow back. It is only a matter of time.
The surfer problem will go away when the media considers it obsolete, and focuses on something else. Like the Hoola Hoop. The current brand of surfers are joiners not initiators, it should work. Gov't to build massive Hoola Hoop safe space infrastructure in Vancouver to combat racism. I can see it working.
How about Trudeau wears Hoola Hoop socks. It is happening man, I am in.
Or Trump visits Tofino. He and son Baron take surf lessons. Surfer dudes will start puking and leaving in droves.
Air B&B changed everything...made every community a resort. No meaningful support from them tax wise to help aid in Infrastructure with increased crowds. I might actually support paid parking in beach areas. Its like this all over busy beach communities in California. Helps pay for lifeguards first aid and trash removal. Balance numbers more with the national Park.
No free rides full business tax for all air B&B bourgeoisie
I agree completely with 2:57, hundreds of AirBandB have changed everything. It also needs to be understood that Tourism Tofino is not responsible for all the day visitors and people parking and camping illegally, every tourist destination in the world has a organization promoting tourism TT are not to blame for the current mess, look to DOT for this
Many local Vacation Rentals are contributing through a specific tax that was imposed on them. Unfortunately without the consent of those operations the money was directed to the black hole of the Tofino Affordable Housing Initiative. So rather than pay for infrastructure and all the problems identified on these pages, as the proprietors may have wanted, as the tax payers may have wanted, the money disappears into some other universe as the Mayor wanted. To construct worker accom, to further subsidise the hotel industry of Tofino. So we can get even more tourists into our community.
I hold the Mayor and Council and Tourism Tofino responsible for the chaos we see daily on our streets, and on our beaches. It is a miracle no one has been killed in the madness along the Hwy, or a beach fire has got out of control. When is Tourism Tofino going to step to the plate and take some responsibility? Never, unless Dot requires it. When is the next election, but really we can't wait till then. We are already years behind the curve.
It is a bit of a cliche but the saying is apropos, "madness is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result"
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We are in desperate need for this !
Day use visitation has gone parabolic. There is no plan at City Hall to deal with it. We are being overrun. Cars parking on the highway, dogs everywhere, people lined up to use the free showers, campers everywhere Does anyone at City Hall give a ---- or are they so tied to the tourism sector that they can,t see the forest for the trees.
This isn't going to go away in Sept. It is the new normal. The whole community serving the interests of $400.00 a night while people sleep in the streets and shit in the bushes.
I guess current realities don't fit into Councils strategic priorities. Straws, Reconciliation, Climate Change, Temporary Use Permits instead of Development permits and Building Permits, "Conversations" instead of water in the pipes, "education" instead of bylaw enforcement.
Is there anyone down there who has some practical frontal lobe executive function.
Things are completely out of control with no enforcement, where is the Mayor and Council? With all the cars parked illegally on the highway in front of Cox Bay and 70 km speed limit, it is just a matter of time before someone gets killed on the road. Both the District and the highways ministry have been warned of this dangerous situation, yet nothing has been done.
Whatever happened to the Mayors Task Force that was started at the beginning of the pandemic? Wasn't she trying to tout the idea of moving away from being dependent on tourism? Where's this task force now?
Multiple piles of tp and human feces behind the post office this morning
bylaw enforcement needed no doubt but how many of those complaining have nightly rentals?
Noticed Josieland is for sale? was it rezoned? i wonder who will buy it?
So many questions re Josieland.
Nightly rentals are not leaving tp and feces behind the post office.
Nothing has changed in Tofino's tourism sector since last year so not quite sure how they are to be blamed for this unusual summer traffic? Maybe it's because BC'ers can't really go anywhere else..at least that's worth while..soo.. Tofino is one of the if not the top destinations in BC for "locals" and other Canadians to come to at the moment. How can you fault them? (We are located right next door to an open National Parkafter all) Really no one to point your crooked finger at other than accepting this is an unusual and unanticipated time. No one to really blame but covid..behaviour of some of the people coming here..💩 well that's another thing.. and very unfortunate..
Holy crap, some actual intelligent comments!
The day use crowd come here cause it costs to go to the National Park. In Tofino, park and shower for free. You can even overnight at one of our fine beach parking lots. The word is out . Bylaw will only try to "educate" you, if they show up at all. Covid or no Covid the numbers on our beaches is increasing dramatically year after year, and contributes little to the economy or upkeep.
Problem with Bylaw is that to do the job they will want another half dozen place holders. And probably won't address the issues any better than now. But guess who would have pay for that. The residents of Tofino, be careful what you wish for.
To adequately pay for bylaw enforcement we need revenue from the day use crowd. Now figure that one out.
Number of surfers, has quadrupled in a few years. Little to do with Covid. They all didn't decide to buy a surfboard because of some disease. Tofino better figure something out because this will impact the image and desirability of Tofino as a destination for those who pay to come here. What if the paying customers start going elsewhere. Fourty people in line for the bank machine. Let's just go to Ucluelet it's "normal" there.
9:37 start pay parking and paying for showers is how we will pay for it.
9:48 The surfer problem will go away when the sea otters wipe out the sea urchins and the kelp beds grow back. It is only a matter of time.
The surfer problem will go away when the media considers it obsolete, and focuses on something else. Like the Hoola Hoop. The current brand of surfers are joiners not initiators, it should work.
Gov't to build massive Hoola Hoop safe space infrastructure in Vancouver to combat racism.
I can see it working.
How about Trudeau wears Hoola Hoop socks. It is happening man, I am in.
Or Trump visits Tofino. He and son Baron take surf lessons. Surfer dudes will start puking and leaving in droves.
RCMP making the rounds on Chesterman last night. Finally somebody is listening.
This stuff happens every year, but every year it gets worse. As the numbers go up the quality goes down.
Air B&B changed everything...made every community a resort. No meaningful support from them tax wise to help aid in Infrastructure with increased crowds. I might actually support paid parking in beach areas. Its like this all over busy beach communities in California. Helps pay for lifeguards first aid and trash removal. Balance numbers more with the national Park.
No free rides full business tax for all air B&B bourgeoisie
I agree completely with 2:57, hundreds of AirBandB have changed everything. It also needs to be understood that Tourism Tofino is not responsible for all the day visitors and people parking and camping illegally, every tourist destination in the world has a organization promoting tourism TT are not to blame for the current mess, look to DOT for this
Many local Vacation Rentals are contributing through a specific tax that was imposed on them. Unfortunately without the consent of those operations the money was directed to the black hole of the Tofino Affordable Housing Initiative. So rather than pay for infrastructure and all the problems identified on these pages, as the proprietors may have wanted, as the tax payers may have wanted, the money disappears into some other universe as the Mayor wanted. To construct worker accom, to further subsidise the hotel industry of Tofino. So we can get even more tourists into our community.
I hold the Mayor and Council and Tourism Tofino responsible for the chaos we see daily on our streets, and on our beaches. It is a miracle no one has been killed in the madness along the Hwy, or a beach fire has got out of control. When is Tourism Tofino going to step to the plate and take some responsibility? Never, unless Dot requires it. When is the next election, but really we can't wait till then. We are already years behind the curve.
It is a bit of a cliche but the saying is apropos, "madness is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result"
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