Sample Letter

 

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From: Robert Hunter
Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 10:07 PM
To: judyw@wreckbeach.org; paulette.vetleson@gvrd.bc.ca
Subject: Re: Marine Residential Towers

 

October 26, 2005

 

Mr. Denis Pavlich, VP of External and Legal Affairs, UBC;

Mr. Johnny Carline, CAO, the Greater Vancouver Regional District;

Mr. Hugh Kellas, Manager, GVRD Policy and Planning;

Members, the GVRD-UBC Joint Committee;

Members, the GVRD Board of Directors;

Members, the UBC Board of Governors;

Mr. Ed Andrusiak, Manager GVRD Parks;

Mr. Mitch Sokalski, Manager, West Area Parks; and

GVRD Policy and Planning Department

 

Dear Stewards of the University of British Columbia and the GVRD:

 

Re: Marine Residential Towers.

 

UBC’s natural setting is its greatest asset. The forests and beaches around UBC are important for preserving an ecological and spiritual balance. It is frightening to see how fast that setting is being desecrated. I beg you to take a walk down to the beach and see what a special place it is. Wreck Beach is fragile. Where is the understanding to be found that will work to preserve such fragile places, if not at a great institution like UBC?

 

Please do your utmost to prevent UBC from looking any more like an industrial park than it already does. Please keep all development as far away from Wreck Beach as possible. Please relocate the Phase II towers!! There are many places away from the Wreck Beach cliffside where these towers would be better located. It would be such a shame for the university to let one of its most special places – known around the world – be destroyed by such needless development.

 

Universities are unique institutions, whose mission is to preserve and further our knowledge of the world and to provide greater insight into our world. What is happening around UBC recently (“selling out to the almighty dollar”) clearly goes against these purposes. Let’s work together in order to save our university from the greed that is devouring the world at a faster and faster rate.

 

Thank you,

 

Robert W. Hunter

Vancouver, BC

 

Via e-mail to: judyw@wreckbeach.org

       and to: paulette.vetleson@gvrd.bc.ca