Tofino sold off housing units it got from developers now wants to spend taxpayers money to buy back in . Is there any planning at all in this district ?
Is it legal to create a suite in Ocean Park strata subdivision ?
Don't worry 9:45, they can create a new position to manage it all. They can hire the existing Tofino Housing consultant, for another $100,000 a year, to advise them on affordable housing issues in Tofino to avoid this problem in the future.
Wait, wasn't that exactly what he was supposed to be doing. Glad he is looking after the Districts interests and not his own?
Tofino trying to re-invent the system. Why??? ( this place is such a virtue signaling paradise). How is it working so far?. I imagine if Tofino had just approved some of the private developments applied for, they could have kept their existing units and received several more through amenity contributions. Of coarse Tofino would have also received a bundle of cash as well through the normal application of existing by-laws such as DCC's, Park dedication etc. And created more housing in the process. Now the taxpayers are to foot the bill?? Apparently the go to source of money.
Ha Ha Tofino plays the Stock Market. You can make a bundle with the right advisor. Sell low when he says sell, buy high when he says buy and the advisor makes a bundle.
Why did Tofino create a Housing Corp in the first place only to have it's products owned by others. Why didn't Tofino own the housing? They already have a body and a staff to manage it and put up plenty of money and resources. Does anyone have the answer? No! No! We needed consultants.
Staff housing, at the major resorts, involves four people per bedroom, sleeping on bunkbeds. Staff housing, for district staff, won't look anything like that. There'll be luxury accommodations, pet friendly, dishwasher, air conditioning, private beds and baths, brand new units. The taxpayers are good for the costs. Gotta spend that parking income!!
And how much will the monthly rentals be priced at? Well, for staff, since they provide "essential public services", probably monthly rents in the area of little or nothing. ( How much Harold Monk's is being rented for, essentially a cash giveaway which will shock you!!).
Having reached a conclusion that it needs to make money to spend money, the District of Tofino will sell an apartment it owns to help pay for its controversial affordable housing project.
The town’s municipal council voted unanimously to put a one-bedroom apartment, located at the Gateway Development on Gibson Street, up for sale at $195,000 as a price-restricted and resident-restricted unit with the sale proceeds going to the Tofino Housing Corporation.
That $195,000 price tag represents a roughly 25 per cent discount to the 490 sq. ft. apartment’s assessed value of $260,500 and the sale will include an agreement ensuring it cannot be flipped for market value.
Tofino will then hand the proceeds over to the THC to be put towards a roughly $535,000 bill for a new road and servicing at District Lot 114, which has been earmarked for an 84-unit affordable housing project.
Tofino Housing Corporation and the District of Tofino are excited to announce the first sale of a price-restricted, resident-restricted home in Tofino! Acquired as an amenity contribution during the rezoning of what is now Sea Otter Place, this 738 ft2 one bedroom townhome will be sold at $210,000 to a qualified purchaser. Please visit www.tofinohousingcorp.ca to learn more about qualifications and the lottery process that will be used to choose the buyer. Attend the July 17th information session to learn more as well! See the attached poster. The mission of the Tofino Housing Corporation is to provide attainable and affordable housing to Tofino residents. July 17,2018
Osborne said Tofino decided to do it differently, and in exchange for added density at the new 22-townhouse project, the developer gave Tofino one unit.
Osborne said rather than a cash contribution, which the district would then have to use for housing at market price, they essentially got the property at no cost.
I'm thinking that with the huge inflated salaries that District office staff receive that they should get out there in the marketplace and find their own housing, same as every other employee anyplace in Tofino. Disgusting, pay em a fortune, and then supply em with housing as well. Here's a solution. A hiring freeze!!
Why not have the district employees provide their own housing? They could haul in their own trailers and park on the district office lot. Do you think the district will have a problem getting themselves to approve the temporary use permit? It could even be revenue producing for the district at $2000 a month for summertime rates.
Great idea. Further to that, Council should bring democracy to the people. Hold council meetings in the barrios, er, I mean TUP areas. The people should be close their democratic process and leaders. Just make sure you take a piss before attending.
needs to be an entrance exam before elections covering applicants basic understandng of math, practical & economic aspects of land use and development, building of residential and commercial nature, common sense, law as it applies to conflicts of interest, financing, the municipal act, the care and attention to be afforded shareholders(taxpayers)by management bodies, and any others that may stick out to us taxpayers. right now the way it works nobody needs to be qualified to do anything practical and maybe one of the reasons we have consultants on top of consultants who may or may not know what they are doing. the current trend for applicants to have ideologies inconsistent with the practical world has gotten us way further behind and paying stupid money to be there.
Obviously, there is very little "planning" happening at D.O.T. But we're supposed to have a planner, a deputy planner, some office staff, and sitting above all of them, the Community Sustainability guy. No one saw this coming?
Also, it's important to note the our current CAO, who was the director of finance during this entire debacle, had to be fully aware of EVERY PENNY that changed hands in the process. And said NOTHING?
So now we need "staff housing". Really!! I'll suggest that what we really need is less staff. The current staff haven't been doing their jobs, why do we need more snouts in the trough?
Someone, somehow, needs to clean house in the district office. Not hire more staff to not do their jobs. We have lots of incompetents already, without hiring and housing even more.
the ratepayers association is the only hope. I don't know what the course of action would be but there must be legal means to remove incompetent management before we the taxpayers are bamboozled any more. enough is enough.
Time for some outside oversight of the operations of this town. Get someone with brains from outside, Victoria perhaps, to run the town with an entirely new reduced staff, new mayor and new council. Having a dictator make the decisions on how the town operates might not be a bad idea. It would be hard to get a worse situation than what we have at present, well with the possible exception of a former mayor that helped get us into this mess. My apologies to those district staff who are pulling their weight. Where were they when this town was going off the rails. Were they allowed to say anything and did they say anything? What a disaster this town is. I hope we have a complete total change of mayor and council in the next election. Those in our civic government now could do the town a favor by an early resignation. It would at least end stupid decision making by them.
Who is living at Harold Monks’ former property ? Used to be a nice house.
ReplyDeleteBuying back units at full price, after they have given away money and land and units,to subsidise their creation. Sounds like doubling down on stupid.
ReplyDeletePlease Lord tell me this is a misprint.
Don't worry 9:45, they can create a new position to manage it all. They can hire the existing Tofino Housing consultant, for another $100,000 a year, to advise them on affordable housing issues in Tofino to avoid this problem in the future.
ReplyDeleteWait, wasn't that exactly what he was supposed to be doing. Glad he is looking after the Districts interests and not his own?
Ship of fools. Suckers for the taking.
Wasn't it his advise to sell the existing units in the first place?
ReplyDeleteTofino trying to re-invent the system. Why??? ( this place is such a virtue signaling paradise). How is it working so far?.
ReplyDeleteI imagine if Tofino had just approved some of the private developments applied for, they could have kept their existing units and received several more through amenity contributions. Of coarse Tofino would have also received a bundle of cash as well through the normal application of existing by-laws such as DCC's, Park dedication etc. And created more housing in the process. Now the taxpayers are to foot the bill?? Apparently the go to source of money.
Hahaha. Dumb and dumber!
ReplyDeleteHa Ha Tofino plays the Stock Market. You can make a bundle with the right advisor. Sell low when he says sell, buy high when he says buy and the advisor makes a bundle.
ReplyDeleteWhy did Tofino create a Housing Corp in the first place only to have it's products owned by others. Why didn't Tofino own the housing? They already have a body and a staff to manage it and put up plenty of money and resources.
ReplyDeleteDoes anyone have the answer? No! No! We needed consultants.
To 11:38 Can't decide if you are referring to the people running the town or the voters?
ReplyDeleteInstead of increasing the amount of staff housing, wouldn't it be cheaper and easier to simply reduce the amount of staff?
ReplyDeleteStaff housing, at the major resorts, involves four people per bedroom, sleeping on bunkbeds.
ReplyDeleteStaff housing, for district staff, won't look anything like that. There'll be luxury accommodations, pet friendly, dishwasher, air conditioning, private beds and baths, brand new units. The taxpayers are good for the costs. Gotta spend that parking income!!
And how much will the monthly rentals be priced at? Well, for staff, since they provide "essential public services", probably monthly rents in the area of little or nothing. ( How much Harold Monk's is being rented for, essentially a cash giveaway which will shock you!!).
Which housing units did the DoT sell?
ReplyDeleteGateway and Sea Otter
ReplyDeleteHaving reached a conclusion that it needs to make money to spend money, the District of Tofino will sell an apartment it owns to help pay for its controversial affordable housing project.
ReplyDeleteThe town’s municipal council voted unanimously to put a one-bedroom apartment, located at the Gateway Development on Gibson Street, up for sale at $195,000 as a price-restricted and resident-restricted unit with the sale proceeds going to the Tofino Housing Corporation.
That $195,000 price tag represents a roughly 25 per cent discount to the 490 sq. ft. apartment’s assessed value of $260,500 and the sale will include an agreement ensuring it cannot be flipped for market value.
Tofino will then hand the proceeds over to the THC to be put towards a roughly $535,000 bill for a new road and servicing at District Lot 114, which has been earmarked for an 84-unit affordable housing project.
Tofino Housing Corporation and the District of Tofino are excited to announce the first sale of a price-restricted, resident-restricted home in Tofino! Acquired as an amenity contribution during the rezoning of what is now Sea Otter Place, this 738 ft2 one bedroom townhome will be sold at $210,000 to a qualified purchaser. Please visit www.tofinohousingcorp.ca to learn more about qualifications and the lottery process that will be used to choose the buyer. Attend the July 17th information session to learn more as well! See the attached poster.
ReplyDeleteThe mission of the Tofino Housing Corporation is to provide attainable and affordable housing to Tofino residents.
July 17,2018
Osborne said Tofino decided to do it differently, and in exchange for added density at the new 22-townhouse project, the developer gave Tofino one unit.
ReplyDeleteOsborne said rather than a cash contribution, which the district would then have to use for housing at market price, they essentially got the property at no cost.
I'm thinking that with the huge inflated salaries that District office staff receive that they should get out there in the marketplace and find their own housing, same as every other employee anyplace in Tofino. Disgusting, pay em a fortune, and then supply em with housing as well.
ReplyDeleteHere's a solution. A hiring freeze!!
Why not have the district employees provide their own housing? They could haul in their own trailers and park on the district office lot. Do you think the district will have a problem getting themselves to approve the temporary use permit? It could even be revenue producing for the district at $2000 a month for summertime rates.
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ReplyDeleteGreat idea. Further to that, Council should bring democracy to the people. Hold council meetings in the barrios, er, I mean TUP areas. The people should be close their democratic process and leaders. Just make sure you take a piss before attending.
needs to be an entrance exam before elections covering applicants basic understandng of math, practical & economic aspects of land use and development, building of residential and commercial nature, common sense, law as it applies to conflicts of interest, financing, the municipal act, the care and attention to be afforded shareholders(taxpayers)by management bodies, and any others that may stick out to us taxpayers.
ReplyDeleteright now the way it works nobody needs to be qualified to do anything practical and maybe one of the reasons we have consultants on top of consultants who may or may not know what they are doing.
the current trend for applicants to have ideologies inconsistent with the practical world has gotten us way further behind and paying stupid money to be there.
ps.and be familiar with the difference between the function of democracy versus feudalism.
ReplyDeleteObviously, there is very little "planning" happening at D.O.T. But we're supposed to have a planner, a deputy planner, some office staff, and sitting above all of them, the Community Sustainability guy. No one saw this coming?
ReplyDeleteAlso, it's important to note the our current CAO, who was the director of finance during this entire debacle, had to be fully aware of EVERY PENNY that changed hands in the process. And said NOTHING?
So now we need "staff housing". Really!! I'll suggest that what we really need is less staff. The current staff haven't been doing their jobs, why do we need more snouts in the trough?
Someone, somehow, needs to clean house in the district office. Not hire more staff to not do their jobs. We have lots of incompetents already, without hiring and housing even more.
the ratepayers association is the only hope. I don't know what the course of action would be but there must be legal means to remove incompetent management before we the taxpayers are bamboozled any more. enough is enough.
ReplyDeleteTime for some outside oversight of the operations of this town. Get someone with brains from outside, Victoria perhaps, to run the town with an entirely new reduced staff, new mayor and new council. Having a dictator make the decisions on how the town operates might not be a bad idea. It would be hard to get a worse situation than what we have at present, well with the possible exception of a former mayor that helped get us into this mess.
ReplyDeleteMy apologies to those district staff who are pulling their weight. Where were they when this town was going off the rails. Were they allowed to say anything and did they say anything?
What a disaster this town is.
I hope we have a complete total change of mayor and council in the next election. Those in our civic government now could do the town a favor by an early resignation. It would at least end stupid decision making by them.
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