http://www.langleyadvance.com/business/Greed+supercedes+residents/7294689/story.html
Dear Editor,
I glanced at the Sept. 20 Township Page [Langley Advance] and discovered an announcement for a Brookswood Community Plan workshop to "sign up" for. with location "to be provided."
Surprised, I investigated, and found it is already a done deal. Council has been dealing with this Griffith Group that has already set up the criteria for complete rezoning.
I realize that, over the year, small snippets of information have been published, and the only way to know what was going on was to attend and read all council submissions - but I obviously did not.
After living in the area for 40 years, I would have liked notice of what is going on. In a democracy, I foolishly assumed, I should have been told such massive plans were in the works with written notice.
A report to council states that "75 per cent of landowners have made submissions to change the Community Plan." As one of the remaining - ignorant - 25 per cent that does not financially benefit from land development, I suppose I have been left in the dark.
So, here we go: more greed and compliance is coming to our neighbourhood, and to heck with the riparian areas, the animals, the birds and oh, those nasty trees.
Letitia Snell,
Brookswood/Fernridge
I glanced at the Sept. 20 Township Page [Langley Advance] and discovered an announcement for a Brookswood Community Plan workshop to "sign up" for. with location "to be provided."
Surprised, I investigated, and found it is already a done deal. Council has been dealing with this Griffith Group that has already set up the criteria for complete rezoning.
I realize that, over the year, small snippets of information have been published, and the only way to know what was going on was to attend and read all council submissions - but I obviously did not.
After living in the area for 40 years, I would have liked notice of what is going on. In a democracy, I foolishly assumed, I should have been told such massive plans were in the works with written notice.
A report to council states that "75 per cent of landowners have made submissions to change the Community Plan." As one of the remaining - ignorant - 25 per cent that does not financially benefit from land development, I suppose I have been left in the dark.
So, here we go: more greed and compliance is coming to our neighbourhood, and to heck with the riparian areas, the animals, the birds and oh, those nasty trees.
Letitia Snell,
Brookswood/Fernridge
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