To the editor:
So once again the council will show that it is in service to local real estate developers and the construction industry by removing any input from people in the neighbourhood and allowing unrestricted development.
While I applaud the intention of increasing the residential density in the city, to allow multiplex housing to be put up anywhere will not facilitate this and removing the ability of residents in the immediate area to have any input will only breed contempt for the whole process.
I would urge council to turn this back to administration with instructions to come back with a comprehensive plan on slowly replacing aging neighbourhoods particularly near the downtown cores with modern high density, energy efficient housing that creates the kind of public and private places that people want to actually live and not simply provide rental income for the city's slumlords.
Sometimes it is not the responsibility of government to come up with grandiose projects but merely to administer what is already there efficiently and responsibility for the benefit of everyone not just the influential few.
John Brewer,
Thunder Bay
