Cumberland BC: The Cumberlander Articles Section
Uncategorized · 10th February 2008
Editor
On their website, Trilogy Properties Corporation identifies three objectives for its proposed land development in Cumberland:
That the development be sustainable from an environmental and an economic point of view, incorporating the principles of Smart Growth.
That the development be integrated between developed areas and open space, and to assure that new environments are complementary to and linked to existing Village environments.
That the development be flexible to respond to changing market demands, and to allow for incremental or phased construction.
These objectives have guided all work presented to date, and will guide all forthcoming work throughout the remaining planning, design and construction phases.
Personally, I find these objectives hard to support. My reason for this is that these "principles" have serious flaws to begin with. Other Cumberlanders recognize this as well, and thus balk at supporting Trilogy even though they cannnot necessarily verbalize their discontent.
What we instinctively know is that the profit-motivated, consumer-driven demands Trilogy wants to place on our home are not, in fact, sustainable and will result in serious and deleterious social and environmental consequences that we will bear the burden of.
Given the "all or nothing" stance Trilogy has taken, we need to question the whole foundation of the value system constellated by the Trilogy Master Plan and ask the question: How much is enough? What is truly sustainable ?
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Explore this question further in the following article on Z Net:
"In addition, a rethinking of basic economic doctrines is urgent. Currently, the maximization of profit (requiring a consequent maximization of production and consumption and lowering of costs) is a doctrine of market economy particularly prohibitive to sustainability, because it does not even ask the question: "How much is enough?". If limits are not set to our consumption requirements, then consumption will grow until the system breaks down somewhere."
See complete article HERE.
That the development be sustainable from an environmental and an economic point of view, incorporating the principles of Smart Growth.
That the development be integrated between developed areas and open space, and to assure that new environments are complementary to and linked to existing Village environments.
That the development be flexible to respond to changing market demands, and to allow for incremental or phased construction.
These objectives have guided all work presented to date, and will guide all forthcoming work throughout the remaining planning, design and construction phases.
Personally, I find these objectives hard to support. My reason for this is that these "principles" have serious flaws to begin with. Other Cumberlanders recognize this as well, and thus balk at supporting Trilogy even though they cannnot necessarily verbalize their discontent.
What we instinctively know is that the profit-motivated, consumer-driven demands Trilogy wants to place on our home are not, in fact, sustainable and will result in serious and deleterious social and environmental consequences that we will bear the burden of.
Given the "all or nothing" stance Trilogy has taken, we need to question the whole foundation of the value system constellated by the Trilogy Master Plan and ask the question: How much is enough? What is truly sustainable ?
______________
Explore this question further in the following article on Z Net:
"In addition, a rethinking of basic economic doctrines is urgent. Currently, the maximization of profit (requiring a consequent maximization of production and consumption and lowering of costs) is a doctrine of market economy particularly prohibitive to sustainability, because it does not even ask the question: "How much is enough?". If limits are not set to our consumption requirements, then consumption will grow until the system breaks down somewhere."
See complete article HERE.