Editor:
Some comment is required concerning the latest blurb from Century Group telling me what a great deal it will be to pave over farmland and build houses.
Traffic - It states: "People who can get by with a single car will occupy most of the homes planned for Southlands." No double garages?
Unless there is a convenience store on every block, people will still have to drive to get their "quart of milk." Taking "the kids to their games" will require a car unless these kids don't want to play hockey, soccer on the artificial turf or swim.
Tsawwassen, and particularly 56th Street, is choked with traffic now. When Tsawwassen Springs is on stream, it will be gridlocked. As a bare minimum, the proposed Southlands development will add 950 cars. Go figure.
Agriculture - Quoting from the blurb: "The agricultural activity that takes place on the land can be human scale (versus industrial scale), using high intensity, low-input, highvalue output urban-friendly farming methods based on ecologically responsible farm practices."
Really! What does this mean? If it means the contiguous land can be farmed after "neighbourhoods" (read subdivisions) are constructed, then why can't it be farmed now and in the future?
Let us hope our mayor and council go by the vast majority of the residents of Tsawwassen and keep the land agricultural.
We owe it to future generations.
R. Smith
