The Editor,
Re. “Big Coronation plans & concerns” (The Tri-City News, Sept. 21).
We must allow densification to happen within Port Moody in areas that are most appropriate for development.
Coronation Park land is ideally suited for growth. Where else in Port Moody can you find such a significant and desirable location to develop for the future? It is within the 800 m border of the Inlet Centre transit station and:
• approximately three quarters of the property owners (65 lots) are not resistant to selling for development;
• the area is already flanked by Suter Brook, Klahanie and Newport developments as well as amenities like city hall, the Inlet Theatre, the recreation complex, the library, town centre fields, plus the many shops, services and other attractions;
• there are no environmentally sensitive areas.
• and the border of Coquitlam and Port Moody falls along Balmoral Drive, where the former Coronation Park school site and Palmer Avenue await a potential large-scale development.
Port Moody has evolved over the past decades into what it is now. It has not remained static. Trees have been cut down and roads and services installed creating new neighbourhoods — neighbourhoods where we now live. The time has come for Coronation Park to evolve into a new form to allow for continued growth.
Rose McFarlane,
Port Moody
