To the editor:
Re: “Ridge’s stained glass windows shattered,” Oct. 4.
Don Luxton of Heritage Vancouver says, “… communities are just becoming… less interesting…” Well, Luxton and other members of his little group have certainly contributed to this disease by supporting the proposal to build a 21-storey tower at Broadway and Kingsway in Mount Pleasant. This node is loaded with authentic historic character that could be developed in a way that is both profitable and esthetically pleasing, but Luxton and Heritage Vancouver are promoting a tower for the site under the guise that it will benefit the transit system. What a load! One wonders how Luxton and his developer lackeys masquerading as heritage activists will benefit from this.
Luxton can blather on blaming various levels of government for lack of support for heritage but he and his band of dilettantes are part of the problem, not the solution.
John Davis,
Vancouver
