Editor:
What kind of legacy are we leaving for future generations?
The impacts of growth, development and re-development affect everyone in Delta and surrounding communities.
Our elected politicians at every level of government must be more stringent in assessing development applications and be held accountable in the long term for the outcomes and impacts to the citizens and the environment for their decisions.
Future development will never go away and therefore must have good design, which is less about density and more about the quality of life and respect for the environment.
How many more cars? How many more people? How many more toilets being flushed into the existing sewer system? Do we have the infrastructure in place to support increased developments? Do we really need more malls?
Agricultural lands disappearing forever?
The pursuit of monetary gain(s) has ruined many communities. Greed not need always seems to come to mind these days.
It is interesting that in 1970 singer Joni Mitchell wrote a song called Big Yellow Taxi, which to this day captures what is happening to so much of our land base: "Don't it always seem to go, you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone, pave paradise, put up a parking lot."
Sharon Kraemer
