Dear Editor:
Re: "Cloverley, Lucas Plans Presented", North Shore News, April 25:
This is an open letter to the North Vancouver School Board regarding the proposal for housing at Cloverley school and park: Friends, What's the rush? Surely your job, as a school board, is not to promote housing,"affordable" or otherwise, but to promote adequate school buildings and public education.
When the present frenzy of building condos and high rises slows, and the people come to fill them, you will have a much clearer idea of real numbers of children needing schools.
There will not be much empty land left on which to build.No more land is being created.
You own a piece of what land we have, and it's an asset that can only increase in value as time goes on.
Please just wait until then, and you will make wiser decisions.I appeal to you, and to city council, to leave Cloverley Park, which is a treasure, as it is.
No, that will not make you any money; but not everything in this world has to have a price tag.
Spirit trails and "green necklaces" are good for walking and biking. Recreation centres are for more strenuous exercise.As, inevitably, we feel the pressure of more folk about us, we shall need a lovely, open green space like Cloverley Park, with no buildings on it, a wide sky and a glimpse of water - a place for contemplation and delight, of "sweet dreams and health and quiet breathing", giving peace and mental and spiritual stability, which are beyond any price.
Shirley Marcino
North Vancouver
