Editor:
Re: Our View: BCA councillors back off pushing developers to do more. That’s just wrong. NOW opinion, May 1
I would like to add my comments on city council in their flip-flop on housing in Burnaby.
I would hope that most of the electorate of Burnaby would have realized that the massive, and I mean massive, shift in the BCA position on affordable housing in Burnaby just before last October’s civic election was nothing more than a vote grab. And most of the electorate fell for it – as we have a re-run of the previous council, except for the two bright spots – a new mayor and a new city councillor – Joe Keithley.
To say that Coun. Keithley’s motion was too late in the process – how short their memories are when it suits them. Harken back to the time mentioned in the editorial where the BCA did the flip-flop just 24 hours prior to two rezoning proposals going up for discussion.
This piece of property should not be developed as it helps keep Burnaby the “City of Parks” that it once was known for.
Please keep big developers out of politics and run Burnaby as an all-inclusive place – that any councillor when giving a speech is so quick to point out how diversified we are – diversity comes in many income brackets and most of them today cannot afford what is proposed to be built on this land.
Lindy McQueen, Burnaby
