Dear Editor:
Re: Rejection of Delbrook affordable housing project.
To the councillors who voted against the proposal for development at 600 West Queens Rd., and who I presume will vote against pretty much any new residential development during your term – a sincere and heartfelt thank-you! Thank you for ensuring the value of my single-family home continues to increase as you restrict the supply of new housing in the district. My wife and I will need all the additional value our home can get to pay for the increased property taxes I assume will be absolutely necessary as the district’s revenues from new development (a.k.a. progress) are cut off.
In all sincerity, it is absolutely shameful for you to vote against a project that would have provided much needed respite housing for our community’s seniors and affordable rental housing. And spare me your excuses – this is what you campaigned on, so of course it’s NIMBYism and anti-development. Shame on me for being naive enough to think you would limit your NIMBY actions to market housing.
Michael Ferreira
North Vancouver
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