Editor:
The recent brochure circulated by Century Group is misleading the good citizens of Tsawwassen again.
It states: "We're going to design and build the new neighbourhoods on the Southlands in a way to make it convenient for people not to have to get in their cars to go buy a quart of milk, take the kids to games or go see a friend."
Whoever purchases one of these 950 homes will require good-paying jobs in order to pay the mortgage, unless Century is giving the homes away. Tsawwassen is a bedroom community, thus the majority of good-paying jobs are outside the area.
Some of these homes will have two working adults to pay the mortgage, thus two more cars on the road down 56th Street. If one is to calculate one-anda-half cars per household, then you have approximately 1,425 cars on 56th Street going to and coming back after work.
As it is, 56th Street looks like the ferry traffic has arrived and detoured through town between 2 and 6 p.m. Yes, you could have a small grocery store within the Southlands to purchase your quart of milk, but most people prefer a car in order to visit Thrifty Foods, Safeway, London Drugs or whatever store where they do their shopping, purchase drugs, see their doctor, have a beer, visit a restaurant, etc.
Take kids to games? Are you proposing one sends his six-to eight-year-old to the game by himself or will mom or dad hop in the car to get him there? What do people do when it rains, which around here is often? They hop in their car to get places.
Century Group should get real when it puts things to paper. All it's doing is infuriating the 60 per cent of us that don't want the development, so leave the Southlands as agriculture.
Victor Souliere
