Editor: Re: District defends Southlands stance, March 26 I am infuriated with the letter that Delta school board chair Laura Dixon wrote to Metro Vancouver endorsing the Southlands application.
As a resident of Tsawwassen, a vocal opponent of paving over agricultural land and a Delta school district employee, I am greatly disturbed that Dixon has submitted this letter to make it appear as if all members of the school district are in agreement with her endorsement.
It has been made very clear that the majority of residents oppose this development and to have a school trustee and school district voice their opinion as if they were speaking for "all of us" seems to be out of a school district's mandate.
How can a school trustee support paving over farmland? Does Dixon not read the daily news about the urgency to preserve all farmland? Is she not aware of the drought in California, the difference of acceptable farming practices in foreign countries, the need for countries to feed their own? Is Dixon aware of the dangers of building homes on a floodplain? And whatever happened to trustees standing up and defending the hundreds of children who now must attend every day of their high school life in proximity to extra high voltage power lines that conduct enough electricity to light up over 700,000 homes and buildings.
Dixon may be wondering why there is declining enrollment. Perhaps she should look up and see the massive lines and wonder if this is why families do not want to send their children to this school.
While she is researching saving farmland, I would also suggest she pour hundreds of hours into researching the dangers of power lines and schools, such as I did during the power line struggle in Tsawwassen.
Dixon does not speak for me and should resign her post as a school trustee immediately.
Perhaps if she put her energy into having the power lines removed and developing land that is not farmland, she could address the declining enrollment problem.
Heather Colls
MAPP - Mothers
Against Power Poles
