The illogic of being in City Hall

City Hall isn’t an entirely logical place these days.

Council approves a two-storey parkade in front of Heritage House on Lorne Street to placate people worried about the drive-by view of the park.

City engineering/development services  director Dave Trawin says a couple of days later that the two levels should be built to accommodate a third level in future.

Coun. Denis Walsh gives notice of motion this week for a covenant preventing a third level without a public hearing at whatever point it is proposed.

Mayor Peter Milobar takes exception to the “conspiracy” theorists who worry about a third level being in the cards. He has no intention of supporting a third level, he says.

Yet, his position is that no covenant is necessary. But if the intention is not to build a third level, then why not guard against it?

There’s an even better way of doing that than a covenant. Simply build the parkade so that it cannot be expanded to a third level. Then the issue is over.

But that would be logical.