Editor:
These winter days the south and east faces of Diefenbaker Park offer a heart-lifting view that includes the houses of Boundary Bay, the winterblue sea, White Rock and the distant mountains.
We should go out of our way to enjoy it, because come spring we'll once again be cut off from these views by leafed-out trees.
In some places it's not even trees that cut off the view, it's just scrub, but it is treated with as much deference as though it were a stand of heritage trees.
In addition, some new plantings in the park have been sited where, when they are grown, they'll limit the views even more. In the case of evergreens, that will mean even the winter views are gone.
Trees are good, but they shouldn't obviate other human needs, including view corridors.
Gail Neff Bell
