Ontario family selling house over new Christmas lights bylaw

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Once a hobby turns into a full time job it looses its meaning. Plus being hired means you are no longer your own boss.

Also, we seem to forget cities always cut budgets for things. It used to be the city may have decorated its streets with lights or setup decorations in public plazas. A city may have also had it’s own light show that diminised in quality year after year, now a distant memory due to skyrocketing costs.

There may have been public fireworks show or a puplic skate rink. All those things usually are the first to go in a effort to save cash when city funded.

This man was doing a economic service to his town in terms of tourism on his own dime. The city shot it self in the foot here, then they tried to have their cake and eat it too asking him to pay for pirmits

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Perhaps a designated area nearby where cars are expected to park and people and their family could walk to see the show could have been a solution.

If there’s any space nearby that could reasonably hold, say, 50 parked cars. If there’s a mall, or an office building that’s empty at night, within a few blocks you could maybe make it work, but not in the middle of a large area of houses.

My guess is that there would still be problems, though, because it’s cold outside in December and nobody seems to know how to dress for the weather anymore. They’re using the cars as portable heat sources.

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And this is why north american suburban neighbours in how they are designed suck IMO. You need a car to get around, even just to go get milk.

Suburban neighboorhoods should really be designed like communities with mixed density housing, small shops that you can walk to, pedestrians and cyclists trails that connect two points quicker in a shorter distance then by car. Mixed zonning for offices and businesses and nothing over 6 stories.

Designing suburbs like this would allow the density required for a tram line and mixed transportation modes. It would also potentially solve suburban sprawl that then compounds the “car is king” problem.

Everything mentioned above is possible, but requires people to accept a level of change.

Think how Amsterdam as a whole transformed its self starting in the 1970-1980 from a gridlocked “car is king” mentality to pedestrian and livability first approach.

fastcompany.com/…/these-historical-photos-show-ho…

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500 to 600 hours divided by 365 would only come out to a 1hr or 2hr a day.

1.5hrs a day x 365days = 547.5hrs

Though a good chunk of that time would be in the physical setup of the lights over a weekend or week.

Most of us commute 2hr or more a day in total. (1hr in and 1hr out of work). Just let that one sink in for a while.

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I think them using cars as portable heat sources highlights the car centric part of our culture. We would rather drive what is basically a private living room and view the attraction in that thing.

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Don’t know why people are down voting you. It’s a valid point.

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Yes, I’m familiar with the term. I didn’t get the impression that the owners were at odds with their neighbors so much as local council. I am not advocating for it to go such, but I’m curious how a court would view it.

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I mean, there were specific shows at a couple houses when I was a kid, but no one stopped there to block everyone for the whole thing because that's a dick move. If people are, then they definitely needed to enforce local traffic only and a permit to set all that up and organize it makes sense to me.

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It’s in the middle of suburbia. There are no nearby lots, and their street has no sidewalks.

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The address is pretty easy to find. It’s a terrible spot for crowds, with no lots or sidewalks.

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Downtown Kingsville to the edge of the suburbs is about 2km in the furthest directions.

So the issue is that the city has decided to not build sidewalks for super walkable distances, there are more than enough lots around.

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File a permit with the city to put up Holiday decorations. Ludacris. Do I need one if I put a tree inside my house?

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Most of us don’t have a commute that’s more than 27 minute in one direction, but still too many people do.

www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/…/dq240826a-eng.htm

By May 2024, the era of shorter commuting times had come to an end, as the average commute time to work for regular commuters was 26.4 minutes, on par with the previous high of 26.3 minutes reached in May 2016.

And here’s a table for times: www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/…/t003a-eng.htm

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If it generates traffic and fire safety issues and requires coordination with police, fire, and/or other municipal services to make it safe, then yeah, a permit makes sense as it covers all that. The other option is to tone it down. It's all fun and games until you or a loved one is dying in a fire or waiting for an ambulance that can't get to you

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As I said elsewhere, just ban street parking and the problem evaporates. There is no more car traffic generation or precived blocking of emergency vehicles.

The problem is cars not people.

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Holiday drive thru light shows in the GTA pretty much sums up the car centric nature of Ontario.

www.google.com/amp/s/www.todocanada.ca/…/amp/

They should just end the drive thrus at a Timmie’s, nothing is more Canadian.

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My home town used to put lights all over their waterfront, with cool moving light shows and stuff, it was something i really enjoyed as a kid and got us out and walking by the water in winter. I haven’t seen them do it to the same scale as when i was a kid for many years. It used to be dozens of displays, now there are just a few trees that get lights. I wonder if people not wanting to leave their cars influenced it. Soon the santa parade will be stationary and we can all just drive past it at this rate.