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Citizens’ input on Delta casino proposal not fairly considered

Editor: Re: Attorney general doesn’t offer any help to stop Delta casino, Community Comment, July 12 After reading Greg Hoover’s column, we agree that the citizens of Delta were not fairly considered in Delta council’s decision to give the casino app

Editor:

Re: Attorney general doesn’t offer any help to stop Delta casino, Community Comment, July 12

After reading Greg Hoover’s column, we agree that the citizens of Delta were not fairly considered in Delta council’s decision to give the casino application approval, which it hurriedly did at the conclusion of the second night of the public hearing in May. Two of our councillors did change their opinion after respectfully considering the facts expressed by the public and voted no.

Further, the German report the attorney general recently released has found the B.C. Lottery Corporation incapable and inappropriate to oversee casino business in B.C. Most everyone who spoke for and against the casino at the public hearing admitted that a casino brings crime to communities. So why would our Delta council, just based on that fact, approve this kind of business?

As we presented to council with photographs at the public hearing, this casino is too close to our family neighbourhood of over 1,000 homes in Marina Garden Estates and we will be the victims of the casino’s many related crimes.

Bill & Carol Jones