Another dead project

[Ross Macintosh]

Two of the four lived across the street. The other two were their friends. They of course were concerned about their views but our law doesn't support a "right to view" so they couldn't argue anything about disruption of their views. It is also interesting that the two who lived across the street also had home-based employment. As their driveways have limited parking, they both have their customers park on the vacant space across the street! It was very clear to me that they had a conflict of interest when they claimed their objections only related to preserving zoning integrity - not their own personal interests.

Regards, Ross

<a href=http://www.designstop.com/>DesignStop.Com</a>

[gwpriester]

It worked for me, must be a slow server at i/us Dennis.

Ross, great rendering and striking design. Are you an architect as well as a renderer?

Gary

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[athena]

It is a shame that one of the people with that vision didn't live to see your shared vision come to life.

I don't know how the canadian land developers are but since I live in a part of Texas that still has beautiful trees I found myself wondering if the untouched landscape wasn't just as beautiful. When I think of Canada, I always think of beautiful trees and natural landscape. (Yes, I'll go so far as to say, I think of Canada as pristine,pure, and beautiful. Probably this is a "greener on the other side" issue)

Down here some residents have gotten angry because the developers or the contractors (hard to pinpoint who is to blame) just plow away all the big beautiful trees to build strip centers (which we don't need)when some of the trees could have been saved if the developer had been more careful. Then they go back with a landscaper and plant these shrubs or spindly little trees that just don't compare to the beautiful old trees that used to live there.

I live in the Houston area near The Woodlands, which used to be owned by the Mitchell family (of Mitchell Energy fame). When they(the Mitchells) were the stewards of The Woodlands, they made rules for developers that emphasized the preservation of the many beautiful trees in that area. That is the kind of land development I prefer. You just have to see The Woodlands to appreciate it (where there is at least the illusion of nature and "progress" co-existing).

I'm not blaming land owners, mind you. Here in Texas, they tax the land so a person has to figure out the best way to make money off of their land so they can pay their taxes (and raising the rent on a bunch of trees is just plain hard [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif[/img] ). But if no one(not the land owners, or the developers, or the contractors,) is to blame, how do things like disappearing vegetation happen?

Then we hear the bigwigs (presidents and vice presidents) tell the US citizens (yep, I know Canada and Mexico are American countries just like the US) come on the TV and say we need to preserve our natural resources. But not one legislator really gives land owners incentive to protect the land. By taxing landowners, they actually penalize people for owning land (whether its only got trees, cacti, cattle, or condos).

I'm curious, is your Provincial Supreme Court, elected or appointed? One would hope that the Provincial Supreme Court had a larger picture in mind, not just larger dollar signs in their pockets. In Texas, we do elect our Texas Supreme Court Justices (a few at a time). But that leaves us with the problem of the voters (and I'm one of those guilty of this) not knowing who is the best judge for the job. It's hard for working people to keep track of who's ruled how on what.

Anyway, ramblings aside. That is a really nice picture. I'm really relieved you got paid for that fine work. To me, as a freelancer, not getting paid for work you did on good faith is pretty high up there on the tragedy scale. It would have been really horrible if the developer had said, "Sorry Ross, the deal didn't go through. . . we can't pay you."

Please keep posting these wonderful pictures. And thank you for the neat advice on how you got the raggedy edge in the bank picture.

Thanks,

Athena
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August 28, 2000
Chris,

I just tested the eternal editability feature that you turned on, way back when. It seems to be working so it looks like you got this feature to be universal within I-US forums.

Athena
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[This message was edited by T. Athena Hatton on August 27, 2000 at 11:12 PM.]

[chris-dickman]

Ross:

I changed the time allowed for editing posts some weeks ago to unlimited. Perhaps I overlooked this forum. Can you try editing an older post?

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[caraman1]

The thumbnail looks great and wish I could see a larger version but when I clicked on it, I only got a white page, is it just me??

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Carillus Design


[This message was edited by Dennis Cox on August 11, 2000 at 11:27 PM.]

[wALDO sLACK]

I don't know what happened. I can't see the graphic.

Ww

[Ross Macintosh]

Hi wALDO,

I tried to reply directly to you via email rather than posting to the forum thread. Unfortunately the message was bounced back - errors in your posted email address.

You mention not seeing the graphic. Please note Athena's first post to this same thread. She has uncovered why some people can't see the images. (The problem is the file name I used for the graphic has a space in it that netscape navigator won't accept).

Because the i/us forum software restricts editing of one's own posts after so many minutes, I can't go back and change the post. I wonder if with your moderator status, you can get into my post to edit out the spaces in the urls I used to have the images served from my server?

Regards, Ross

<a href=http://www.designstop.com/>DesignStop.Com</a>

[Mickie]

Did the four citizens live across the street from the property? Can't imagine why else you would want an industrial site over residential...don't block my view.

Love your work,

Mickie