Dear Editor:
I was “gobsmacked” at the [June 3] front-page story CNV Opens Up Streets, Parks, Patios.
I’m confused and concerned that the City of North Vancouver is preparing to spend our tax dollars with little regard for the expected extra noise, garbage and nuisance this will bring.
Pretty much all the places that already sell alcohol in LoLo today provide two happy hours to peddle cheaper booze, and the bylaws officers don’t keep up with current complaints.
How and why did council decide to start pushing more booze over the exhausted and now financially strapped people working in and for other hard-hit businesses like coffee shops, barbers, salons, rec centres, dentists, chiropractors, physiotherapists, local markets and more?
On a Saturday and Sunday morning, the garbage bins are rammed, jammed and tight-crammed. Do we really expect people to “pack out whatever they pack in for their picnics,” as Coun. Tina Hu suggests?
Mayor Linda Buchanan “acknowledges not everyone will be happy.” They’re not. And then she adds, “Is it going to be perfect? Probably not.” Really?
The mayor also tells us “we think adults will be adults if we treat them like adults.”
Feed more booze to people and they do not remain responsible adults – they become noise-mongers wandering the streets they mostly don’t live close to.
If there has been any public input surrounding these changes at all then it has surely gone unnoticed as people have been consumed with news and worry about a global pandemic.
Please tell me that CNV council did not just “slip one by the goalie” while we were all worrying about intensive COVID-19 and [anti-racism protest] news stories and understandably looking the other way.
Roy Allen
North Vancouver
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