Editor:
Re: Gallery rezoning in Roberts Creek
With our prime minister and federal MP, not to mention our provincial government — among other disasters plaguing our province and our planet — collaborating in the corporate hijacking of our political bodies and our environment, I’m somewhat reluctant to waste space on a rather trivial issue. Nevertheless, I’m compelled by the unrelenting display of negativity towards music outlined in a letter (Coast Reporter, Aug. 8).
Did the letter writers not catch on that the “permitted use of live music events 12 days per year” amounts to only one event per month, or were you too busy calculating the cost to taxpayers for “investigation of decibel readings”?
And the apparent belief that hundreds or thousands would be attending these events suggests that you yourselves have never attended a live music event in this area.
With respect to another red herring — the deep concern about cars parked along the road — would you be submitting written complaints if a bunch of cars were parked along the road because one of your neighbours was throwing a big party once a month? And where are your complaints about lawn mowers and chain saws, both of which make music sound like — well — music?
You might reflect on what Jerry Garcia had to say about music: “We need magic and bliss, and power, myth and celebration and religion in our lives, and music is a good way to encapsulate a lot of it."
