Editor:
I moved to Davis Bay and the Laurel Avenue 4900 block because it was a quiet neighborhood. Now as I have been told by Mayor Darren Inkster that our quiet street is needed as an alternative to Highway 101.
The people on Laurel Avenue were not consulted about the discussion on our cul-de-sac this summer and did not know it was in the capital plan discussions. We would have been there en masse if we would have known, because we have fought this battle before in 2006. Please may the people in the Laurel Avenue area have a meeting with the council on this matter? This will change the nature of where we live and there must be other ways of looking at this. Make two turn around with a wide side-walk in-between. You have a highway problem not a Laurel Avenue problem. With no sidewalks, Laurel Avenue is now used as a pedestrian sidewalk and is great for cyclists. There is a gravel path between the two cul-de-sac's for cyclist's to then move on up to the bike paths on Chapman Creek or back down to the highway on Havies Road.
You can interpret the Vision Plan any way you want, but we do not see a quiet residential street being used as an alternative highway.
This is what Sechelt is all about - friendly neighbourhoods. Like the 2007 residential neighbourhoods vision objectives say (to develop in harmony with the diverse natural environment and terrain, to foster community connectedness and to strengthen a sense of belonging, identity and interaction.)
Bob Evermon
Davis Bay
