GROW?
When it comes to growth, it's all about attitude, says London Deputy Mayor Tom Gosnell.
"You can sit back and look at all the negatives of a project or you can start out by saying, 'How can we make this happen in our community?' " says Gosnell, a former mayor who has pushed hard to get the city's growth rate moving upward. "They just look at the negatives. They don't look at the positives, at the costs and benefits."
Therein lies the frustration of the so-called pro-growth faction on city council that likely will keep growth issues front and centre for the balance of council's four-year term.
Gosnell's frustration exploded last week after planning committee recommended -- at the staff's urging -- to keep the urban growth boundary closed, jeopardizing a proposed $80-million private industrial park on Wilton Grove Road across the street from the urban growth area boundary.
Gosnell laid the blame on a "whining socialist cabal" on council, sparking a public furor and forcing Mayor Anne Marie DeCicco-Best to jump into the fray to find a solution at Wednesday's board of control meeting.
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