Editor:
I think the latest plan for the Southlands is the best ever proposed. And I think a lot of people, including Delta council and the Metro Vancouver board, think so too.
I think the view might be that Century Group has won and the opposition has lost, but this is not so. We would not have got so many concessions wrung out of Century if it really hadn't been afraid that, again, the opposition would have won and this plan would have been tossed in the trash.
So, really, we should be very thankful to Dana Maslovat of Southlands the Facts and all the other people who so vociferously supported the opposition for this new and improved plan that leaves so much of the land for agricultural use.
If the Southlands plan had not gone through, there would be a vacuum because that is what a large chunk of land so close to the city and surrounded by the town would be. It would be a source of contention for as long as it stayed empty and possibly would be put to undesirable and unplanned (by the community) uses.
So, in my view, the opposition has really won. The latest plan is good, but it is quite different from the original plan and it would never have materialized without the efforts of Maslovat and all the people who supported his view and worked so hard to threaten the developers into such deep concessions.
In my view, our communities, Tsawwassen and Boundary Bay - no, I do not wish us to be joined - owe the opposition a great debt. The developers will reward themselves, so they don't need our thanks.
If this development does indeed turn out to be the bucolic heaven that is promised, we should remember and give thanks every time we walk its pretty paths and admire its gardens.
Rosemary Keelan
