Editor:
Wouldn’t it be smart if all the processes a development has to go through had to be finalized before valuable oxygen-producing, air-cleaning green-space is bulldozed into giant scars on the landscape?
Wouldn’t it be smart if the District of Sechelt, like many municipalities, had a bylaw against clear-cutting during bird nesting season? Two development properties in Selma Park were devastated in the height of spring nesting season.
Wouldn’t it be smart if the district had sent its arbourist to the five-acre property at the top of Snodgrass Road to mark big trees that were not to be cut down before they were cut down? That property is now giant piles of slash and some large stumps; but they’re not done yet. The big 25-acre China VanKe Co. development property between Havies and Nestman now resembles a barren moonscape, except for a fringe of greenery at the bottom of the property and along Nestman that the machines haven’t gotten to yet.
Wouldn’t it be even smarter if the District of Sechelt stopped issuing development permits altogether, since our inadequate water supply, our little highway and our hospital can’t handle any more people?
Cecilia Ohm-Eriksen, Sechelt
