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Small town feel may be lost

Editor: Re: Possible big box store rezoning application (Coast Reporter, July 13). If a rezoning application for Eco Village on Field Road comes to Sechelt council this will be the end of the Sunshine Coast, as we know it.

Editor:

Re: Possible big box store rezoning application (Coast Reporter, July 13).

If a rezoning application for Eco Village on Field Road comes to Sechelt council this will be the end of the Sunshine Coast, as we know it.

Yes, the big box stores will be in Sechelt, but it will hurt all the small businesses on the Sunshine Coast. The small family stores in Sechelt support young families and young children for our schools. Most of the money small businesses make stays in Sechelt. Most of the big box store's profit will leave Sechelt and go to China or the States. We already have three big box stores on the Sunshine Coast. Cowrie Street will turn into a boarded up plywood ghost town.

The Sechelt downtown has a wonderful, peaceful small town nature that will attract tourists and people who want to get away from the busy city. Don't bring the big city lifestyle to the Sunshine Coast. What do you gain? - a dollar here and there maybe. What do you lose? - a lifestyle that you will never find again on the Sunshine Coast.

So do we keep big box stores out of the Sunshine Coast and keep small family business in Sechelt profitable?

Bob Evermon, Davis Bay