A warning for the new Common Council from Chief City Planner Ken Forrest........Your feet will be held to the fire to stay the course with the new direction in development.
Forrest tells CHSJ News there will be proposals put forward to bend the rules and Councillors will have to make some tough decisions.
He says the rural development that took place in the city in the 1990's in an effort to compete with what was happening in the Valley did not turn out to be good for Saint John because it's more expensive to service those areas where there are fewer people. He calls it "scatteration".
Forrest says there was a forecast, way back when, that the population o the city would grow to a quarter of a million.