The Editor,
Re. “Streamkeepers disturbed at request to move creek to make way for house” (The Tri-City News, Aug. 10) and “PoCo, look after Maple Creek” (Letters, The Tri-City News, Aug. 17).
My partner and I recently moved to Port Coquitlam from Vancouver, although I called the Coquitlam area home for many years because my grandfather lived here for nearly two decades. The walks he and I used to take around local creeks and trails in the area near his house were some of the most memorable times I had as a child.
Speaking as someone concerned with the noticeably reckless development and changes happening in our communities, it is my opinion that moving — or even entertaining the idea of moving — a stream and its accompanying critical ecosystem that has been left untouched for generations just to accommodate some person’s ridiculously large house is remarkably irresponsible and greedy.
It’s the acceptance of these types of applications that set the all-too-familiar trend where people feel they are entitled to change nature and public spaces just because they want to, without any just cause.
Please build around nature and our public lands, not through them.
Brian Duran,
Port Coquitlam
