EDITOR,
I was distressed to read yet again our Council making a major land use decision without first consulting residents, regarding the transfer of land to the Squamish Nation.
The Cheekye Fan lands have been deemed unsafe. Attempts to expand Don Ross School have been rebuffed over these concerns. An affordable housing development on one portion many years ago was axed even though roads and infrastructure were already put in place because of it. Now suddenly it's going to be OK to build there?
We need to pay attention to what is happening in Japan. A whole lot of "unlikely" scenarios are playing out there with disastrous results. If something is built there, whoever does the building needs to be held liable. And where the former affordable housing development was concerned, if the proponents are still around, they need to be given first crack at the portion of land they had already been building on when the province shut them down.
One final note: How dare Council lecture us on the evils of plastic bags and incandescent bulbs, and then roll over on a massive development that will fell over 100 acres of forest, in a debris torrent zone, for a 25 per cent cut of the action? If the plastic bag manufacturers were offering you 25 per cent would you change your minds there too?
Brad Hodge
Brackendale
