To the editor:
Re: “Developing Story: Rally to support heritage homes,” May 21.
Call me simple, but I just don’t know how to teach children to green-bin their food waste when a developer sends all the mature landscaping on a property to the landfill.
Call me simple, but I just don’t know how to teach children not to be wasteful when they see perfectly good houses smashed and taken to the landfill.
Call me simple, but isn’t the city government that issues all the demolition permits complicit in contributing to the non-affordability of housing in Vancouver.
I wish someone would tell me how to respond when the kids ask: “Why is that house going down?”
Virtually every For Sale sign on a West Side property that is not a new-build (regardless of condition or size) is a guarantee the surveyor pickets and orange netting will soon follow. The waste is astounding and should not be allowed to continue.
Remember the 3 Rs for consumer goods? The landfill is no place for homes. Why not Restore, Renovate and Re-inhabit homes.
It is done, you know, just not in Vancouver — a city that claims to be well on the way to becoming the Greenest City in the world.
Alison Bealy,
Vancouver
