Dear Editor:
I am opposed to any thoughts of converting Queen’s Park Stadium to a soccer facility for the exclusive use of a Whitecaps minor league farm team.
Queen’s Park Stadium has hosted baseball for 50 years and the thought of spending an estimated $10 million of taxpayers money (and based on the City of New Westminster’s track record of estimating, it will likely be closer to $20 million) to wreck what is perhaps the best community sports gem in the Lower Mainland is totally ludicrous.
This proposal flies in the face of the 2013 Queen’s Park Master Plan, which was adopted by city council last year. I hope that the city councillors, who are thinking about voting for this “white elephant,” remember that there is an election coming up in November and the direction that each councillor votes will be widely publicized
Douglas Whicker, by email
