So, Victoria city council is going to spend $12 million — Victorian for $20 million — on a Centennial Square re-do. I’m advised that “this train has left the station.”

The city’s eyewash portrays a kiddie splash pool/water feature, and a sprinkling of benches, performance spaces and stages, a coffee kiosk and other paraphernalia.

In the image, it’s warm and sunny, just like Victoria all year round.

The labelled plan identifying these features includes a giveaway: “Bosque.” Bosque is spin for “a handful of rigidly spaced treelets.”

Bosque derives its name from the Spanish word for “forest” and its Spanish definition features “abundancia.”

Spanish. Spinish. Take your pick.

The only thing abundancia with this city crowd is jive and propaganda: “One City, One Plan,” etc., enough to shatter the needle on your crap meter.

Let’s take a moment to explore the design thinking of the planners who conceived this hellscape and the council that approved it.

A splash pool to entertain kiddies. I can see parents from miles around bringing their little ones to frolic in a splash pool shared with bits of uncollected laundry, tinted with urine and feces.

And this breaking news: the market in the old Bay building, less than a block from Centennial Square, has collapsed for lack of custom.........

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