Editor:
Tsawwassen is fat with NIMBYs. Oh the dozen stoplights on 56th Street with one or two more to come. Oh the 1,000 new Spetifore units. Oh TFN. Oh gawd.
My family and I have lived here since 1997. In that time the population has grown by maybe 1,000 -- we're now just inching up on 22,000 souls. If each unit at Southlands coughs up 3.75 bodies, that's an additional 3,750 people, total. Compare to Morgan Creek or Cloverdale or the City of White Rock.
TFN for its part is an island unto itself. Same as Hampton Cove on the slough or East Ladner. Meanwhile, based on personal observation, I'd say more Surrey families trek to Centennial Beach on any given weekend than our South Delta neighbours.
Then there's breathing room, literally and figuratively. Skeptics will surely challenge the math, but by my last calculus during the Southlands public hearing marathon -- with Centennial Beach parkland plus the protected Southlands working farm spaces -- my count shows an eight-to-one ratio of hundreds of hectares of landlocked greenspace in Boundary Bay to residential development. Sound like White Rock, Morgan Creek, Cloverdale, even Ladner Village? Then add in the countless square kilometres of sand at low tide reaching halfway to Crescent Beach.
Please, people, give the head a shake to get rid of your New Year's whine vapours and their self-induced hangover. Time to cheer your good fortune -- Once! Twice! Thrice! -- to be able to claim Tsawwassen as your home.
Wm Baird Blackstone
