From the Waterloo Chronicle November 4th 2009
The city has not done a ‘good job’ in Northdale
Letters
Nov 04, 2009
As a long suffering permanent resident of Northdale, I can tell you that Councilor d'Ailly is simply wrong when he says, “There are no more keg parties and street parties usually. We’ve done a good job but we have to keep going.”
Keg parties, Hot Shot parties are alive and well in Waterloo's student ghetto.
And St. Patrick's Day's festivities last March included another street party.
This year the partying has actually gotten significantly worse.
I invite Waterloo to drive around our neighbourhood and look at all of the keg party cups.
The garbage situation isn’t great either.
So no Jan, the city has not done a good job.
Coun. Diane Freeman is right— it is time to accept that families will never move back in here.
It is simply time to build something else here before we have a 400-500 person riot like London experienced this past weekend.
Christine Carmody Waterloo
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I grew up in London and currently attend UW. In my view, one of the core differences between London and Waterloo is the attitude of the local police. In London, students and young people in general are considered a nuisance, and nothing more. The police put in an extraordinary amount of effort to stop parties from happening, and shut down the ones that are. This causes bands of people to roam around seeking the next party, eventually settling on the road, and when the police come to shut it down, people get frustrated.
In London, the neighbourhood of contention is isolated from the local entertainment district, and is primarily composed of younger, college students (few Fanshawe students live in residence, and let's face it, the maturity level and workload at a college [in general] is lower than at a Univeristy).
This is not the same situation as in Waterloo. Northdale is extremely close to Uptown Waterloo, and primarily occupied by upper year University students, not 18 year old college kids.
Part of London's problem could, in my opinion, by solved by lowering the drinking age. 18-year-old Fanshawe kids (and their legal friends) have no incentive to go to accepted, legal drinking establishments, because they probably won't get in, and it's not cheap to ferry back and forth.
So yeah, don't compare apples and oranges.
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