Editor:
At the top of the letters page in last week’s Coast Reporter is the question of the week, in which a poll found that 83 per cent of those responding thought that NIMBYism was an issue. Below was a letter from Cecilia Ohm-Eriksen (“What about the water?”), which underlined that beautifully. She wants nothing new to happen and certainly no newcomers to the Sunshine Coast to occupy her dreaded hotels, condos, and “big” subdivisions. She exemplifies an old adage: “A developer is someone who wants to build a home in the woods, an environmentalist (NIMBY) already lives in the woods.”
We live in paradise. People will keep coming to join us, and our population will grow.
We have lots of water available to us! That said, water meters will help, but the answer to a growing population is more water storage, specifically on Chapman Creek above the falls. Water storage has to be at the top of the SCRD’s agenda, and it needs to get there fast.
One of the SCRD’s aims is to promote as much food production self-sufficiency as possible. You cannot produce food without water availability!
A. F. Butt, Sechelt
