2nd sui

Dear Editor:

I was angry and then saddened when |
read that the district council plans to grant
blanket approval for secondary suites
throughout the district.

Saddened because this decision has the
potential to destroy the character of many
family neighborhoods in North Vancouver.

There are probably a dozen illegal
suites on muy street. There were a few
when we moved here nine years ago, but
most have appeared in the past few years
and the neighborhood character has defi-
nitely changed.

It is now less friendly and there are
more “strangers about. There is much
more vehicle traffic, and it seems that
people drive faster and have less regard
for pedestrians or childrea riding their
bikes.

There are many more cars parked on
the road and driveways which detracts
from the neighborhood aesthetic.

Secondary suites do change neighbor-
hoods. Their occupants are more transient
and generally less committed to and less
involved in their comraunity,

Those who live in secondary suites pay
no property taves for schools, hospitals,
police and fire services, road mainte.
nance, libraries, recreation facilities,
parks, ete., ete, This places an unfair bur-
den on those who do pay property taaes,
i.e. people who cent or own an apartment
or single family home. Eventually this
will lead to a deterionition of municipal
services,

Finally, consider that secondary suites
inevitably tum a single-family neighbor-
hood into a multi-family neighborhood.

People who want a single-fantily envi-
ronment simply move out and suite-build-
ing speculators move in. Over time houy-
es are converted for avultiple suites, so
that two or three rents can be collected
from the same property.

Pye scen this happen in single-family
neighborhoods in Surrey and Vancouver
when illegal suite by-laws were not
enforced.

Who benefits from conversion of sin-
gle-tamily neighborhoods to multi-family
use? Those who see a house as an invest-
ment from which the highest possible

HOMEOWNERS

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retum must be eamed: not people interest-
ed in building strong, safe neighborboods
and communities.

Lo urge you to reconsider this issue.
keeping in pind the impact your decision
will have on the future of North
Vancouver District.

C. Michact Battistel
North Vancouver

Prime Minister's
broken promises

Dear Editor:

Whatever happened to that friendly old
folksy Jean Chietien we got to know in
between Liberal governments? Looks like
we're back to the hard-nosed Minister of
Finance who supported Trudeau's policy
of nuing Aoman who didn't keep his
promises then, and can casually kick out
an honest colleague who wanted him tu
keep his GST promise, now.

Denis Mason
West Vancouver

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