03-30-2017, 12:20 PM
(03-30-2017, 10:58 AM)Viewfromthe42 Wrote: Walk along the Victoria strip from King to the parking lot entrance, and on both sides of the sidewalk you will find a pile of poo in stages from fresh, to stepped on, to rained-into-pancake-shape every few feet. Astroturf also makes it sound like the condo board could easily remove it, which would be disappointing, and if it winds up like most condos around here, it will still be rentals saying "no pets."
The42 also had tri-sorters installed, but the board promptly disabled the organics option as soon as they were in charge.
All this is to say that while I like what Momentum puts into their plans, what happens once they turn over the keys has been incredibly disappointing so far, and council and city staff should take this evidence into account when trying to assign bonuses for design elements. Giving Momentum extra floors because they install an organics button on their garbage chutes, which promptly gets disabled by the condo board, is incredibly inappropriate.
A lot of good things can be undone by bad boards. But if those things aren't put in, even a good board can't do much. But if most owners aren't happy with what the board is doing, you absolutely need to vote in a new board. We did that last year ...
We don't allow dogs walking through the main entrance (either garage or side entrance is OK). There is generally not much dog feces around the building, and it's been months since there was an incident inside. Most people recycle, carrying the metal, plastics, paper etc to the blue and grey bins downstairs. It's not all condo board, it's the owners (and tenants), too -- and they are the ones who choose the board.