Subj: 609 the vagaries

ML> that means leasing property, which must be good for you
ML> Churn has to benefit somebody.

Yep, churning is good for Realtors!

JW> municipal zoning bylaw

ML> In many of our jurisdictions the voters consider some of these
ML> to be violations of personal freedom

Those voters are of course idiots. I would love to buy a lot next
to their house and start a pig farm!

ML> developers coveted to put high-rise apartments on, and she
ML> resolutely refused to sell, so high-rises were built to the
ML> property line, with the little house boxed in by them.

I can only imagine that she had a single family home in an area
zoned for multifamily developments. Even so, she should have been
protected a little bit with setback rules and access to sunlight
regs.

ML> In most incorporated areas in the US there are zoning laws;
ML> inconsistently and perhaps sometimes not enforced, but they
ML> exist.

I am against overly restrictive zoning where the municipality
micro-manages development but keeping industrial, commercial and
residential areas separate is sensible. In Canada zoning and
building codes do get enforced.

ML> At Lilli's, though, she could build a helicopter factory and
ML> nobody could do anything about it. She has had at various times
ML> a horse corral, an art studio, and a commercial smokehouse on her
ML> property.

So I'm curious what type of loose multi-use zoning she is subject
too.

   Subj: 610 wines

 ML> Schloss Gobelsburg Tradition 12

I remember drinking a cheap, nasty, domestic, imitation German wine
once called Schloss. So I went on Google and the first thing I
learned is that Schloss is German for Chateau and that there are a
lot of Schloss So-And-So wines.

And then I found the guilty party: "Schloss Laderheim was created
in 1977 by Calona Wines (owned today by Peller). It was one of
numerous foreign-sounding labels. Canadian wine at the time was
losing market share to imported wine, so the Canadian wineries
passed off their generally mediocre wines with European-sounding
labels. Misleading consumers actually worked. Schloss came in a
brown hock bottle with Germanic script all over the label. In 1981
Schloss outsold Baby Duck -- 589,000 cases to 571,000 cases -- to
become the top selling domestic wine in Canada."
 
The overwhelming success of Schloss inspired other domestic
producers to create a riot of pseudo-label wines, including
Hochtaler, Alpenweiss, Toscana and Tollerkranz. The German wine
industry was not impressed. Hermann Guntrum of the great Nierstein
house of the same name, remonstrated with Rafe Mair, the minister of
Consumer Affairs in B.C., that the Schloss label had "too many
German words for a clearly named Canadian product." Rafe's deputy
minister said that was beside the point: the label misrepresented
neither the country of origin nor the manufacturer. 'The Calona
label to which you refer is not misleading,' he wrote to Guntrum in
May 1978. That was a dishonest answer, but the provincial government
- then as it does today, was dedicated to protecting the provincial
wine industry.  Andrew Peller Ltd still produces Schloss Laderheim
today; you can find it in various sizes and in a box."

Calona was the absolute dreck of infant Canadian wines. Peller makes
some decent products today but still carries the lines that got it
started. Hochtaler is drinkable in a pinch; I'll buy it when I'm
overdrawn and don't have any commissions coming in that month.

  Subj: 612 kidneys

 ML> So tell me what the appeal of Jarlsberg is. I had some recently
 ML> and determined that it was funky-smelling wax.

You're not supposed to eat the wax coating! Jarlsberg is similar to
Dutch Leerdammer and a bit like Swiss Emmental. Of the three I do
prefer the Swiss; it's firmer and nuttier.


Cheers

Jim

... Pizza: a slice a day keeps the sad away.

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