Editor:
The people who’ve been forced from their homes in the Seawatch subdivision because of sinkholes have been treated disgracefully by this and past councils. Before building even started, it was known that the land was “geotechnically unstable,” yet council at the time eagerly grabbed development dollars, issued permits and then refused to take any responsibility when problems started.
And now, at the height of the Seawatch debacle, our new council recently approved the West Porpoise Bay Estates Development (a development that was not approved by the last council). This land too has serious problems, these relating to steep slopes.
Official Community Plans aren’t worth the paper they’re written on. We’ve seen this over and over on the Sunshine Coast. If the OCP suggests prohibiting development on slopes over 30 per cent and most of the proposed development land has slopes between 30 per cent and 60 per cent, maybe it would be smart to not build anything there in light of what’s happening at Seawatch.
As for developing even stable land, nothing more should be built in Sechelt until we have proper infrastructure, until we have a highway that can handle more traffic, a hospital that can handle more patients, and above all, enough water year round.
Whatever happened to common sense?
Cecilia Ohm-Eriksen, Sechelt
