Dear Editor
Mayor Corrigan is using density as his justification for the teardown of affordable apartments in Metrotown. I don’t have a problem with densification, and I can see Burnaby is working hard to do its share in densifying the Lower Mainland.
My concern is that we are doing it by building condo towers in areas zoned for multi-unit housing already. The result is putting people that live in Burnaby out of the rental market here. The zoning in at least some single-unit residential areas has to change to affordable multi-unit housing so that we can maintain and grow mixed housing in Burnaby.
We need housing for all to make good communities: singles and families, rich and poor, young and old, apartments, co-ops, row houses and single-family residential housing. The tearing down of affordable three-storey apartment buildings to put in condo towers has gone far enough. Leave some affordable rentals in Burnaby and start working on getting more densification in single-family areas from zoning changes.
Vicki Rasmussen, Burnaby
