Editor:
I found Doug Husband's historical overview series of the Southlands to be informative and interesting. In my opinion, his conclusions were bang on.
The moronic response to these articles by Kerry Schreiner in the Sept. 28 edition was pure jibber jabber. To compare Stanley Park to the Southlands in a hypothetical scenario made absolutely no sense whatsoever.
Stanley Park is owned by the City of Vancouver and Southlands is owned by a private company. To compare the two as an example is just plain ridiculous.
While the letter writer might see Southlands as a park, it is not. It is a piece of privately owned property with some trees on it and no public access, a far cry from being even remotely compared to Stanley Park.
Has Schreiner ever looked at the plans Century Group has put forward. From the comments, I am inclined to think not.
I am tired of the NIMBYs in Tsawwassen painting Sean Hodgins as an out of control greedy madman that wants to pave over all the farmland in Delta.
All of his submissions have allowed the lion's share of the land to be donated to the people of Delta to do with as they wish. All of his submissions have made allowances to develop a park-like setting with unobtrusive development.
Giving back to the community over 75 per cent of potentially high yield development property is not the action of a greedy, money hungry developer. It is the action of a responsible, civic-minded visionary who cares about how his community is being developed.
The only problem I can see with allowing his development is the years of back and forth town hall meetings as the public debates, rallied by the likes of Schreiner and other NIMBYs, over what to do with the huge chunk of property Hodgins would donate to the community.
Dennis Robertson
