To Editor,
Re. “Moody Centre to become an urban centre” (Letters, The Tri-City News, June 21).
Are you joking? Wonderful Port Moody is being sucked into the “dead zone”?
The developers have caught this little town napping. As if 20-storey zoning across from Moody middle school was bad enough, then comes really big highrises along the waterfront.
The former Ioco site of tomorrow will have a paralyzing impact on Ioco Road.
Then to top it off, here comes the vision of an urban Moody Centre. Are you people daft? You are three quarters down the road to killing Port Moody.
Oh, yes, SkyTrain is your answer. Really? God help us.
No questions being asked about how will Eagle Ridge Hospital handle the thousands of new families, no question of increase cost of fire, police and increased maintenance? Yes, you will worry about that later.
Please don’t throw out these over used carrots that there will be social or seniors’ housing. Where will you sit to enjoy Rocky Point or when all the weekend travellers hit the road?
Please keep Port Moody a nice place to live and ask yourself who is pushing all this density and how much shadow do you want on your streets. The changes to the OCP will be interesting.
Brian Robinson, Coquitlam
