Dear Editor:
The mayor and council have not engaged in good quality thinking regarding development in Metrotown, Brentwood, Edmonds, and Lougheed.
Mayor Corrigan, in the Winter 2015 Infoburnabym said, “Our four town centres – Metrotown, Brentwood, Edmonds and Lougheed – are the unique complete communities envisioned with you more than 20 years ago, focusing density and enabling us to keep 25 percent of our city as park and green space, and protecting single-family neighbourhoods.”
However, over the 20 years why didn’t the past and present mayors and councils engage in thoughtful timely reviews of the developments and their impacts on neighbourhoods? I believe that if they had used available data regarding the communities changing social and economic circumstances in timely reviews, they could have planned “with us” a more sensitive, caring outcome.
Perhaps the focus, as pointed out by Mayor Corrigan, needed reviews. Reviews more reflective of a caring, social democratic government rather than a Conservative style of government? It is not too late for the mayor and council to engage their thinking regarding the social impacts of decisions made 20 years ago. Hopefully they have not missed an opportunity to demonstrate the good traits of social governance?
Frank Mesich, via email
