Editor:
Re: “Alternate shelter location clears hurdle,” Nov. 24.
It’s a public health emergency!
Deferring access to a temporary homeless shelter over a rezoning/OCP amendment to define some people who are without shelter as different from visiting people is absurd.
The issue is denying some unfortunate people minimally healthy shelter in inclement weather. It should have been treated as an emergency long before the predictable cold, windy, wet weather set in. It is appalling that this is still being treated as a routine zoning/OCP amendment issue, albeit perhaps moved up a couple weeks at Christmas.
Would it have been business as usual if the sleeping person that four paramedics were reviving on the beach last week had died?
Sechelt’s representatives were elected to act as necessary when appropriate. It is still a public health emergency.
Henry Hightower, Sechelt
