Dear Editor:
Re: Moodyville Park Land Swap Goes to Negative Vote, Jan. 17 news story.
The alternative approval process is difficult to access for the average person and discourages most from participating.
It is presented in such fine print in the public notice that it is a challenge to read. Rarely does the average person read through a notice thoroughly, especially when presented in such fine print.
I phoned the City of North Vancouver’s municipal hall to get a form to oppose the approval of bylaws 8533 and 8535 and received a convoluted document that required an expert to finally find the actual form required to oppose. That’s how council gets things passed – they make it too difficult to complain; therefore, development issues like this one, become a shoo-in to be passed. You can’t even email the form back but have to hand deliver or mail it to city hall.
By using the alternative approval process, council is almost guaranteed it will be too much trouble for many people to bother responding. Unless we are paying close attention to what the politicians are doing, they get away with whatever they wish to push past us.
Florence L. Nicholson
North Vancouver
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