Serving the citizens of Edmonton.

For all of my 30 plus years I have served the citizens of Edmonton to make a better city to live in. All my direction came from a long time group of planners at the high end of Planning. With the advent of new management 2 years ago and the fact that we became a business unit, all has changed. As a business unit, the manager has indicated that we are fully supported by the fees we receive from our customers. As another planner said, in business, not government, who is the person that you work for? The answer is the customer. Ipso facto, it is not the citizens but the guys who pay the fees. This list includes the land developers, from the developer of 250 lot subdivisions to the guy who rezones his property to allow for re use and redevelopment with a new list of uses. Thus I no longer serve the citizens but now I serve the developers. It leaves me in an interesting quandry.