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Letter: Anti-Bosa noise letter really about not wanting things to change

Editor: Re: We can’t open our windows for spring because of New West pile driving , Record , March 20 Kerry Romaniuk's open letter to the mayor read more like someone grandstanding and asking to speak to the manager, than someone with any reasonable
Pier West pile driving
The city is working with Bosa Development on ways to address downtown New Westminster residents' concerns about noise from pile driving at the Pier West site on the waterfront.

Editor:

Re: We can’t open our windows for spring because of New West pile driving, Record, March 20

Kerry Romaniuk's open letter to the mayor read more like someone grandstanding and asking to speak to the manager, than someone with any reasonable concerns.

As the headline suggests, their problem is with the pile driving - mainly that it is loud. I'm sure the mayor knows this, as we all do. I can see the construction site from my apartment and can confirm it is loud.

Seeing as it was published on the first day of spring, does Romaniuk not realize the "months and months of pile driving" took place "in the winter months when it's not going to destroy residents' chances of enjoying spring and summer"? Would Romaniuk prefer the construction to halt until October, so their spring and summer aren't ruined?

My main concern with Romaniuk's letter is not that it's as ineffective as someone complaining about the weather, it's that the thesis of the letter is actually, "I don't want change." 

Kerry then spends the rest of their letter wondering if all of this construction and all of these new residents are going to destroy this city that we all call home.

Romaniuk's letter doesn't ask any questions like: should the city consider any future proposals by Bosa after the president of Bosa Developments told city council, "In many ways, we didn’t realize what we were getting into when we had to do river work."

Instead, Romaniuk asks the mayor to "slow things down a little bit," lest the city become too big, too fast, before threatening to take their business elsewhere.

Corey Taylor, New Westminster