The Editor
It is hard to understand how our city has allowed developers to build houses right under high-voltage power lines and right in front of the now very busy four-laned Coast Meridian Road.
These three-storey chicken coops are the smallest, narrowest ugliest homes in Coquitlam. They are an eyesore as you turn off David Street and go down south Coast Meridian.
The lovely view of Mount Baker is gone. I understand council has forced the developers into making Burke Mountain higher density - or is it the other way around? Did councillors not consider the health issues that may be the result of your decisions for future generations? The children have no choice but to live in those pokey, little homes - hydro lines in their backyards and a drag strip in front.
Why couldn't it have been left an open space, as greenbelt, like it is from Eagle Ridge up to Westwood Plateau? There is only so much room on Burke Mountain; not everyone is going to want to live here the way the municipality and the developers started to make such a mess of this beautiful area. They always think about how to make the big bucks and not the future or how it is going to look.
Angela Geveke, Coquitlam
