Dear Editor:
An open letter to mayor and council:
Drought in California is raising the cost of our food; yet the city fills the best farmland in the province with high-density housing, while the Liberal government spends billions to flood thousands of acres of scarce northern farmland for electricity that can be profitably produced by raising the productivity of the energy we use and by decentralized renewables.
It's not too late to save what's left from the tyranny of planning in the interests of development corporations: overpopulating our communities, devastating our trees and life-support ecosystems, impacting the river.
Refuse further high-density approvals in Queensborough; revise planning to retain the half- and one-acre lots, the family gardens, the produce farm. Retain the remaining moorage for community fishers.
How many people live in Queensborough today? How many do you expect when this official community plan is built out? When would that be?
How many people live in the rest of the city now? How many do you expect when that new OCP is built out? What total population do you have in mind for the city? When would that be?
I look forward to your answers to these questions.
Hildegard Bechler, New Westminster
