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Letter: Are we creating another monster neighbourhood?

Why do we have the need to chop up all decent-sized lots and build cookie cutter homes creating overcrowding?
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This oldtimer at 18373 Claytonhill Drive was demolished June 21 to make way for two new homes.

To the editor;

Regarding your May 23 front page article about a meeting at Adams Road Elementary (“Cramped school woes prompt meeting,” May 23), I wish we would be notified ahead of time that there will be such a meeting.

I live nearby. There was no correspondence from the city or the school PAC to residents who have no children attending this school.

We still live here and wish to participate in the planning discussions regarding housing development.

At the corner of 180 Street and 67 Avenue, the development signs went up during spring break and the houses are already demolished, faster than you can breathe, or signs are purposely destroyed and removed by someone mysterious, so no one knows about the actual plans.

I browsed the local papers for the city notices about development, have seen none. Why do we have the need to chop up all decent-sized lots and build cookie cutter homes creating overcrowding?

This is what they call sustainable? Haven’t they learned their lesson from creating the Clayton monster neighbourhood? Why does our city need to be the largest city on the west coast?

Helga (last name withheld)