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Horse Long-term planning
manure jacking in West Van

fouls
trails

Dear Editor:

Is horse manure more
acceptable than dog poop?

Come and find out in
Bridgeman Park on East Keith
Road. There are heaps galore
on the paths of leftovers from
horses. I bet there isn’t anoth-
er park in Greater Vancouver
where horse riders are allowed
to pass 2 few metres away from
an established playground for
small children. How about the
mothers who bring along their
offspring in buggies or the
older people from the highrise
next door who have to step
over this disgusting mess?

What is the district council
* thinking about to let this hap-
pen? Small children, pedesti-
ans on narrow paths don’t mix
with horses whose hooves can

be a lethal weapon under cir- -

cumstances,

Then there is the other
aspect — 99% of dog owners
clean up, but the riders leave it.
I wish, with may other people
who comment on this, that the

_ example - of ‘Bowen Island
* would be followed. On ail their
- trails are posters “No Horses!”
There ‘must be bridie paths
elsewhere for riders where they
are not a nuisance and endan-
er others. -
. Norcliffe
North Vaticouver

Dear Editor:

Sunday’s editorial (July 16), Not in West Van,
not only hit the proverbial nail on the head with
a hammer, but did it with a sledge-hamimer.

Analyzing the matter in further depth, it
becomes apparent that what is missing is the ele-
ment of master planning. Actually this not only
applies to West Vancouver, but to the North
Shore, Greater Vancouver and the province at
large.

Thrown into the matrix and further compli-
cating the issue are too many miniscries and
other authorities, each jealously guarding their
own litde box of marbles without any cohesive
overall authority and unification.

West Vancouver council will teil you, “Oh,
but we do have a master plan and it is called the
Official Community Plan.” This plan, although
it has some updates, is still dated May 1988, and
in paragraph 5.1., quite clearly states that it is for
day-to-day operational decisions, annual pro-

gramming and budgeting, and for “short term

planning.” So where is the long-term master plan
which should cover, five-, 10-vear planning
stages and cven 25-year predictions? It further
states in paragraph 5.3a, “The Official
Community Plan will be formally and thorough-
ly reviewed at intervals of approximately 5 years.”

When was this last done? Diligently watching
council meetings on television, [ feel frustrated at
the amount of time that council spends on such
matters as how many dogs are permitted on a
leash, and what they might do at lamp posts and
fire hydrants.

Finally, after years of neglect, Coun. Jean
Ferguson is taking a lead in initiating the rejuve-
nation of a long-term plan. Let us hope that this
will result in better decisive leadership and stew-
ardship which the citizens of West Vancouver
hopefully will appreciate, even if it does step on
some people’s tocs, causing them to squeal
NIMBY.

Donald L. Thomas
West Vancouver

Judgment day will come

Dear Editor:

What kind of society are
we developing in this country
over the last decades? We

. have adults and young adults

refusing to take responsibility
for their own actions. We
have Morgentaler spouting
inanities about aborting
unwanied babies and that is
why crime has gone down in
this country. We have women
who shout choice but cannot
make that cheice before hav-
ing sex. We have our govern-
ment spending more of our
tax dollars to protect a group

of physicians because some
“crazy” out there has or may
attack them. They chase to
be abortionists or perhaps to
be more politically correct,
“abortion providers.” They
can well afford to pay for
their own protection.
Because abortion is legal, as
it is continually drummed
into us by pro-chcice adva-
cates and the media, docs not
make it right or true.
According to the law and our
courts, pre-born babies are
not persons, but then not
long, ago women and blacks

were not persons cither. Now
we have Mr. Petter (Attorney
General and = Minister
Responsible for Human
Rights} pandering to the Gay
Alliance and spending moie
of our taxes to challenge the
law on marriage. Heaven
help us all when we must

-account for what we are

doing to a much higher
authority whom we will all
surely meet one day.
Jeannine Henderson
North Vancouver

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