Editor:
There is nowhere we can find in any bylaw today and nothing in the official community plan (OCP) of any community on the Sunshine Coast that allows the permitted use of live music events 12 days per year in a residential neighbourhood, let alone in an R1 zone. Now from requests of gallery owners and their followers they want it with amplification and want the taxpayers to further pay for investigation of decibel readings.
These are our homes, our place of peace and quiet that we come to at the end of a work week. This is not B.C. Place or Woodstock.
The OCP does not have any policy that supports live music events, period.
The only thing the OCP supports is an “auxiliary” art gallery with exclusive local artists: tourists come here to see local artists, local culture: isn’t that why they are coming here? Auxiliary means “secondary to something larger.”
When you have a large scale operation with 12 to 16 artists in one location, this draws larger crowds and overburdens a congested neighbourhood on a major road with buses and bike and walking paths.
Why has no one addressed the other very serious issue of parking for these grand events? Where are you parking hundreds and thousands of people?
Lose the events, scale down the operation, and follow the rules.
Why is that hard to do?
Monica Petreny and Steve Porter
Roberts Creek
