The Editor,
Re. "No road through Bert Flinn Park" (The Tri-City News, Jan. 30).
Port Moody city council has removed the special study area on the Ioco lands, which means some bright developer will build around 250 houses on the north shore of Port Moody to go along with the 1,500 apartment units proposed in Anmore (but that’s not a Port Moody issue, according to PoMo council — they will teletransport themselves to Anmore!).
Port Moody Mayor Rob Vagramov is boasting on Facebook how this will eliminate the urban sprawl. Fantastic! Or maybe he could have considered leaving it alone and had ZERO units.
Now they tell us that there could be building in all these areas and Port Moody is eliminating the route to get there. And the brilliant folks on council who are supporting the elimination of the right-of-way through Bert Flinn Park (apparently, some of whom have a personal agenda in eliminating the David Connector extension, according to some who presented at the public hearing) provided no alternative plan for transportation.
(Don’t get me wrong, parks are important. Those dog walkers who use a minute portion of the 311-acre park are safe in knowing that those who live in the Ioco Road corridor will soon have to deal with something resembling a freeway, although Coun. Hunter Madsen thinks otherwise. But their dogs are safe.)
So, to summarize, Port Moody is going allow another 250 houses but eliminates possible transportation routes to get to them. Brilliant.
Frank Naso, Port Moody
