Dear Editor: We are writing to you to express our concerns regarding the future construction projects in our area (78 Richmond St.).
We are living in a wonderful part of New Westminster, the Fraserview area. Most of our buildings, apartments and townhouses are age-restricted. Most people moved here for the retirement time and hope for a quiet and comfortable life after selling their houses.
Recently, there are so many rumours and gossip that the whole area is a subject of builders’ interest who want to buy most of the properties in our area, demolish them and build new concrete jungles – highrises. Definitely, they will never do it, prior to the consultations about rezoning requests and planning with the City of New Westminster. What is most disturbing is that one of the projects is already named “Glenbrook Ravine Park,” so it makes us worried about the future of our gorgeous park, a little gem.
Unfortunately, all our inquiries to the City of New Westminster, the parks and licensing, rezoning and permits departments, were left without answers. All our questions, why some of the trees in our Glenbrook Ravine Park were marked down, were left unanswered. Please let us know how our everyday life can be protected against “making money” and creating a concrete jungle of our city, without concerns about the people who are living there.
Olga Savchuk (Parkomenko) and Charles McGill, New Westminster
