Editor:
Re: OK to Southlands would pave the way for others, letter to the editor, July 8
Peter Malim pleads for preservation of a "scenic vista for the approach" into Tsawwassen at 56th Street. Bill Slemko identifies "the preservation of open views" as many people's antigrowth rationale.
These are greenspace preservation initiatives that are clearly "community benefit" focused. But fact is we, the people of Delta, should buy such greenspace through property taxation.
No question existing ALR designations deserve preservation, but if we demand parkland instead of housing on any particular plot of non-ALR land, we should buck up rather than expect others to give it to us buckshee.
"Community benefit agreements" are to be championed, not disparaged, when local solons mull housing plans for all non-ALR Delta dirt.
W. Baird Blackstone
