Development on the North Shore must stop - at least temporarily. That was the thesis of Coun.Lisa Muri's impassioned speech at District of North Vancouver council Monday. Muri
made many cogent points. When it comes to development, it's often true
West Vancouver and the two North Vancouvers seem like triplets who each
think they're an only child. While Muri has been a guardian
against density in the past, she voiced her opinion during a debate
about highrises in Lower Capilano - a neighbourhood specifically
reserved for density in the district's unanimously approved official
community plan.Just six months earlier, there was a similar scene
in West Vancouver chambers, with Coun. Bill Soprovich training his zeal
on a three-storey mixed use building on Clyde Avenue. Soprovich's
vow came scant weeks after he backed Grosvenor's seven-storey Ambleside
project - a development he'd unsuccessfully tried to shorten by 15 feet.
Regardless, Soprovich's harangue was drowned out in applause. In
this election year, we ask voters to consider the community they want to
build - as well as the particular development they don't want built -
and a plausible vision for the future.As politicians begin
knocking on doors in the coming months, some may find religion late and
decide opposing development is a good way to get elected. Others may
advocate positions at odds with their own voting record.But actions always speak louder than words in political chambers.
It will pay to remember that come November.
© North Shore News
3 comments:
I think that flatly "opposing development" is a narrow, and frankly, somewhat ignorant perspective.
Selectively approving development that makes sense in accordance with the OCP and opposing development that doesn't makes for a more healthy community.
"Development on the North Shore must stop - at least temporarily. That was the thesis of Coun.Lisa Muri's impassioned speech at District of North Vancouver council Monday. Muri made many cogent points."
"...actions always speak louder than words in political chambers."
Good ol' Lisa Muri: She who speaks against development, but acts for it.
"It will pay to remember that come November."
Why were so many of the comments deleted from this post?
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