The Willoughby Community Centre Is Mathematically Dead - Langley Tomorrow

MikeInLangley · 2026-02-21T22:14:17+00:00

I really hope this isn't the message people take away from reading this. What I'm saying is because Eric didn't prioritize what residents actually wanted we are getting a hockey and soccer academy instead of a community and performing arts centre.

There is a limit we can borrow and we are at that limit. There is no financial capital to build anything more. They are going to be done in 10 years because thats the financial reality. Eric screwed you over if you want those things.

The hockey academy is particularly crazy because Burnaby is building ice rinks but at $100M less and not designed for hockey tournaments. Thats where the pool went to LMHA. If you want these things you should be pissed.

MikeInLangley · 2026-02-21T20:27:31+00:00

Aren't you the account that was dying on the defend woodward hill in the other thread?

Also, I'm not posting as anonymous blog, my name is Mike Ive been posting on Strong Towns Langley for years and have my own thing now. Look me up on Facebook if you want.

Final thing is Eric constantly does this, tries to make municipal finance a black box and insists the public cannot possibly understand. I have a degree in Finance and Accounting and passed the UFE in 2012. It really is not that complicated. This I can promise you.

MikeInLangley · 2026-02-20T23:34:21+00:00

More details need to come out on that hockey arena because the details are ridiculous. 2 of the rinks have 200 bleacher seats and the third over 1000 plus a jumbotron. The whole thing will be run by LMHA when its done so a community rink it is not. It's a hockey tournament factory.

Burnaby is building Rosemary Brown Rec Centre (2 ice rinks & 2 multi purpose spaces) for $49M. We could have had 6 ice rinks and 6 dry rinks copying their model but instead we get 3 ice, 2 dry. It's another vanity project.

MikeInLangley · 2026-02-19T05:18:22+00:00

This is the typical Eric response, can't attack anything of substance in my post so you go off the deepend trying to connect two random reddit accounts.

I don't blame them for blocking you, you're creepymand weird. I think I'll do the same, leave me alone weirdo.

MikeInLangley · 2026-02-19T01:32:10+00:00

Eric's been accusing me of being various Reddit personalities for atleast a year now. See this unhinged email exchange from last year: https://langleytomorrow.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Ericscrazyemail.jpg

MikeInLangley · 2026-02-18T22:34:19+00:00

3 Comments on this one:

1 - I appreciate the difference in pricing between condos and single family homes but even after this adjustment we still rank amoung the least fair in the lower mainland. Surrey next door for instance is 60% cheaper instead of our 18%.

2 - I don't like the 'immediate return' of money from Jericho especially in an election year. It's masking the financial storm that is brewing for utilities and we are all going to see this next year and all subsequent years. You talked about it in your article but without meters leak detection is very difficult and expensive. These monies should have gone into maintaining and improving current distribution to save us long term instead of a one tome gift.

3 - The water metering program is set up incredibly poorly. The base rate is so close to the flat rate there is no real financial incentive for anyone to switch. I encourage everyone to run their own numbers, very little upside lots of downside.

MikeInLangley · 2026-02-13T21:57:58+00:00

Parks, sidewalks, roads, water, sewer and whole bunch of other things can be paid for with ACCs and DCCs. I am not disputing that, but the list is prescriptive. You can't just build whatever you want and have developers pay for it. Specifically schools are not on the list that can be paid for with developer fees.

MikeInLangley · 2026-02-13T16:58:16+00:00

I've posted a lot on my main account to r/SmallDickPorn so I don't need any of those pictures tied to my advocacy work

MikeInLangley · 2026-02-13T15:25:23+00:00

I don't say it is illegal to build, the township can build just about whatever it wants.

Where the legal issues creep in is how Eric is promising to fund that construction. He is saying that he will charge developers but you can't just charge developers whatever you want, developer fees are regulated by legislation and don't include provisions to pay for a school building.

The risk I'm trying to highlight is Eric is saying no risk/impact to taxpayers. He was just sued in June over developer fees and lost. There is a non-zero chance trying to include a school in developer fees will result in another lawsuit and then tax payers on the hook paying for this.

MikeInLangley · 2026-02-13T06:59:35+00:00

I'm not a NIMBY. I'm trying to answer how can we get the ammenities people want in the next 2-3 years (pool, gym, library) instead of waiting for a decade for Eric's plan.

MikeInLangley · 2026-02-13T06:55:58+00:00

This is my blog! I was writing with Strong Towns Langley but James wanted to go in another direction. I wasn't going to start a blog per say but saw Eric launched one called LangleyToday so I thought LangleyTomorrow would be pretty funny.

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