Drainage issues

Is it only me that finds it unusual that the City Engineer Michael Clayton wanted to bring infrastructure and drainage issues up while discussing the possible development of the former NHCC property? Aren't these infrastructure issues already being ignored by the city? Windchime Bridge already floods and is poorly maintained. Country Club Road does not have enough storm water drains. Brockington and Brookswood also flood during heavy rains.

Sherwood does a lousy job of maintaining drainage ditches and very infrequently cleans storm water drainage systems that are in place in some areas. These issues have been ignored by the City, and, somehow ignoring them all this time gives the City Engineer the ability to state that the City will have to address or remedy these concerns if the NHCC property is developed? Truth is, theses issues should have been addressed long ago and now it's just another pathetic attempt to frighten people into thinking that development of the former NHCC property is going to cost us.

Maybe Mr. Clayton's views on remediation and drainage are being influenced by his home address (Putter's Cove) instead of the duty he should already be performing. Seems to me that bringing light to an issue that his office and Public Works has ignored for decades isn't making him look very good. I for one wouldn't be saying anything in public about potential problems being exaserbated by development when they could have already been remedied by now.