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LETTERS: If they can build a protest camp, can I build a laneway house?

Editor: After reading both sides of the letters to the editor about the protest camp at Kinder Morgan, I thought I would take a drive up to it and see what it was all about. Well, to say the least it blew me away.
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Editor:

After reading both sides of the letters to the editor about the protest camp at Kinder Morgan, I thought I would take a drive up to it and see what it was all about.

Well, to say the least it blew me away. It was a collection of tents, a rundown trailer and two wooden buildings. It looked more like a homeless camp than anything else.

They were have a fire in the middle of the day - I thought this was not allowed in Burnaby. There is a new building being built that looks like a two-storey house complete with windows.

I also saw that they were growing marijuana on the roof, I guess that’s OK since we all know it will be legal soon. I guess my real question about this shanty town is since the mayor and council are allowing these people to build their houses, can I now build my laneway house, legal or not?

 

Fred Halldorson, Burnaby