For now, Greg Clayton at UPEI is giving them more attention than the disabled
Stephen Pate, NJN Network, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada, May 15 2009 with story from CBC Charlottetown
Greg Clayton, director of facilities management, is obviously a horse lover. He is going to great lengths to make sure the new horse barns at UPEI are just right for the horses. We wish he had more time for the disabled. Last summer, Clayton gave us the old heave-ho off the inner campus.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKt5JHBQ_H0
Greg’s idea of a solution for disabled parking was – all the parking will be equally far from the buildings. That sounds fair. I guess.
This year Greg has put wheelchairs and walkers behind him. It’s hi-ho silver away. Somebody has to look after the horses, make sure they are happy out at the University.
Even Don Poole of the City of Charlottetown is more worried about the horses. “City planning manager Don Poole said the bylaw is in place to make sure buildings look tasteful. Amending the bylaw for the college was discussed, but rejected.”
We’ve been trying to get Don to apply the existing City parking bylaw for disabled parking but with no success. Maybe the disabled should wear horse costumes on campus. That will get the right people talking about the parking problem.
Luckily the horses don’t have the PEI Council of the Disabled giving UPEI bad advice on how to treat horses. PEI COD restricts itself to wrong advice about the disabled. Like I say, lucky for the horses.
CBC – College hits bylaw trouble putting horses out to pasture
Charlottetown’s Atlantic Veterinary College has been waiting a year to put its teaching horses in a pasture near the school, but city bylaws are creating problems.
As part of the pasturing facility, which is just off Mount Edward Road below the Sisters of St. Martha convent, AVC wants to build a barn.
The barn would have a synthetic fabric roof, commonly used for modern horse barns. The fabric allows light into the barn, which makes the horses more comfortable.
“It’s been proven that it reduces horses being spooked in the facility,” Greg Clayton, director of facilities management, told CBC News Monday.
“It does have a high ceiling, which does allow for good ventilation and good air exchange. And it’s a fairly economical way to go.”
The barn is half-finished until a decision is made on the roof. (Lindsay Carroll/CBC)
Another advantage of the fabric roof is that the barn would not require electricity.
But a building with a synthetic fabric roof violates city bylaws.
City planning manager Don Poole said the bylaw is in place to make sure buildings look tasteful. Amending the bylaw for the college was discussed, but rejected.
David Macdonald, the city councillor for the area, said he wants to find a way to make the pasture work.
“Everybody is very pleased that the land’s going to be used this way, and they’re a little disappointed that it hasn’t already started.”
Clayton said the college will likely have to come up with another type of roof, at a higher cost.
It could apply for a temporary permit, but Clayton said AVC wants a permanent structure.
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