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To the editor:

Re: "Future citizens of 麻豆传媒映画will be ROV-ERS," May 25.

I enjoyed reading David Allison's argument that change is inevitable and we should all just get used to it in Vancouver. Perhaps Allison was not advised that several 麻豆传媒映画neighbourhoods spend countless hours of volunteer and City of 麻豆传媒映画staff time drafting plans that they all agreed would be acceptable for about the next 20 years. Our city plan for Arbutus Ridge, Kerrisdale and Shaughnessy was published in 2005. None of these neighbourhoods is against redevelopment, nor change, but it should be within the established plans or at least with the consultation of the neighbourhood groups.

Along comes Sam Sullivan and friends with eco-density. Heavy on the density! They withdrew their civic support of the city plan groups and walked all over us wherever and whenever a developer asked for high density condos as long as he gave a hefty sum to the city and threw in 20 per cent social housing.

麻豆传媒映画is a city of 23 neighbourhoods and they each have special characteristics to maintain. It should not be one size fits all.

I'm told there are 20,000 apartments in 麻豆传媒映画that are owned but not lived in. Obviously a safe investment for someone, maybe immigrants. That's OK-we all came from immigrants -even the aboriginals that Allison talks about. Did they not migrate from across the Bering Sea?

I suggest that the best advice Allison can offer us is how to get city hall to consult with neighbourhoods.

Doreen Braverman,

Vancouver