Editor: Re: Delta adds insult to injury by handing taxpayers bill, letter to the editor, Feb. 26 I think there's more than one perspective on what Peter Malim refers to as "Delta residents" having "had to foot the bill" to pay for all the activities involving the Century Group proposal to develop the Southlands.
Attaching blame for what Malim seems to regard as some sort of travesty to Delta council kind of ignores his and his friends - and all of our, really - role(s) in this whole affair.
From watching (and participating in) the various proceedings, it became evident that a significant and focused groundswell of support for what Century plans for this property arose, awakened from a long and suppressed slumber.
Too much negativity all of the time, people said. Let's get on with things. We really like what this proposed development offers our community - and it doesn't "take" anything. Let's look at the positives.
The costs of trying to come to a decision on a matter like this arise out of the way(s) we choose to discuss the matter with each other. Those costs are not entirely predictable and we have to recognize our own contributions to these costs.
We didn't all have to speak at the various public hearings, for example. Many of us simply continued to say, when we did speak, what had been said many, many times before.
Council heard and we all heard. Alleging that somehow the costs of dealing with Century Group's proposal are in some way unfair to the community is really a mug's game. We demanded the process and we pay the costs.
Suggesting, as one letter writer did, that a public enquiry should be called to look into the matter can only be described as silly.
Time to move on and support "our" development at Metro.
Firth Bateman
