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Letters: Fully support Ladner Village plan

The vision for the Village is tasteful and functional. The proposal for the waterfront is beautiful and will provide a much needed public space for the citizens of Ladner.
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Ladner Village.

Editor:

Re: Ladner Village Revitalization

Climate change is upon us and our dikes are at the very least 1.2 metres short (more in some areas) of where they need to be to meet the year 2100 standard that has been set.

That is the catalyst behind the redevelopment in Ladner Village.

We are so very lucky that the recent weather phenomenon did not settle over us. As it is we had many flooded yards, not to mention the farm fields. Luck will not always be on our side and this type of weather is going to continue. It’s only a matter of time before we are experiencing what the Fraser Valley is.

There is much misinformation being spread in the community about the Ladner Village Revitalization proposal.

As Ian Jacques wrote in his recent opinion column:

A. The Dunbar Lumber site was not even an idea pitched when the Advisory Committee was formed. It was never raised nor discussed during the life of the committee.

B. The LVR proposal does not recommend the destruction of any heritage buildings, on the contrary, it recommends strengthening and increasing the inventory.

C. Every building in the Village will not be six storeys. However, six storeys make a building viable! The studies have been done! Research and read them.

D. The committee was not made up of developers, in fact there were exactly zero developers on the committee.

The businesses in the Village are behind this development for the very reasons put down in the recommendations. Sustainability! There are not enough people living, shopping, working in the Village to sustain it long term. Therefore, we need to provide residences where individuals and families, young and ageing, can live with the Village providing the services they need, conveniently, near their homes. Not only does it make the Village more livable but it cuts down on the travel that people have to do to live. Fewer people in cars is a good thing. There’s no denying that. Is there?

We are surrounded by farmland, which we need for food! So, we can’t go out, we must go up.

The vision for the Village is tasteful and functional. The proposal for the waterfront is beautiful and will provide a much needed public space for the citizens of Ladner.

I fully support the Ladner Village Revitalization plan.

Pat Cleave