Dear Editor:
I concur with recent letters from Pat Whitehead and Sue Thomas on the topic of West Vancouver losing its soul.
I have resided in West Vancouver since 1982 and when I moved here we had a community on Mathers Avenue.
Our councils for a decade have ignored residents concerns re: neighbourhood character, allowing the construction of huge ugly monstrosities often purchased by offshore investors who do not live here or contribute to our community.
Home prices are now unaffordable to most residents of B.C. We have traffic gridlock as the Lower Mainland grows with increased construction traffic and through traffic to Cypress and Grouse Mountains, the ferries and Squamish and Whistler with zero improvement to road access for 40 plus years. The council solution is increasingly density (which is not making our real estate affordable) creating traffic gridlock.
Our council needs to focus on transit and more road access to the North Shore before adding more density while doing whatever is possible to retain what little neighbourhood character remains. Unfortunately the affordable housing bus for West Vancouver left in the last decade.
Graham McIsaac
West Vancouver
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