Editor’s note: This letter was sent to Mayor Armand Hurford (prior to Tuesday’s council meeting, when council voted to reconsider on June 4), and copied to The Squamish Chief.
I am writing to request/suggest that you bring the decision to deny the floatel concept for this project back to council for reconsideration. I support this project and view that too much emphasis is being placed on the complaints of organizations such as My Sea to Sky at the detriment of the rest of Squamish. This concept was a reasonable solution and if we started working with WLNG rather than against them I think we could extract far more community benefits from this project for the wider community of Squamish—perhaps contributions towards our planned community recreation centre. We have already benefited by the CT scanner; will that now go away?
We also have to be aware that should this project be stopped, there will likely be legal challenges for the community, and it will be important to show how the community was not being reasonable. Turning down this floatel concept was unreasonable; it was rejected for reasons around safety and traffic that do not apply to other projects in our community.
Please reconsider.
Thank you.
Glenn and Valerie Stainton
Squamish
