It's time for term limits for elected officials, this writer says.
Once upon I time, I was a supporter of the Burnaby Citizens Association . I was a left-leaning student, and it was important to me to have elected officials with a social conscience and a party concerned with issues like protecting the environment and housing affordability.Who is this party that is greenlighting towers 60 floors high? They argue that it will help housing affordability.
Who is this party that approves building plans for towers whereby the "affordable" or "rental" units don't have windows in the bedrooms? The pathetic justification of approving this plans is that it "meets" or "exceeds" building codes. I don't know what councillors are talking about. Homeowners can't create bedrooms without windows.
Do you know where bedrooms don't have windows? Prisons. What message do the BCA think they are sending to low- and middle-income families when they say they can put their children to sleep in a windowless room?Then, this last idea to turn a fragile ecosystem into a manufacturing facility is just the final straw. This party doesn't stand for anything anymore.
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