Editor:
Have you ever felt that you were on a runaway train? I did, a few days ago. Drove down Payne Road in Gibsons - a new housing development on the left. Turned left on the highway -a new office building under construction. Onto the lower road - a long stretch of new wire fencing, heralding, I understand, a major condo development.
And we are only just leaving the station. New developments in Pender Harbour to the north, and on the road to Port Mellon to the south and on the horizon, Gospel Rock and a major expansion of the Gibsons Harbour, some boiling development pots in Sechelt, and lord knows what winding their ways through the approval twists and turns around local government tables.
I'm not either for or against development on our beautiful Sunshine Coast, but I would like to know, in easy to understand language, exactly what we will be bequeathing to the generations that follow us? Say 10 years down the rail track for starters.
Will they thank us or curse us? Seeing what we see now, plus the minutes of local government meetings, plus letters and reports in Coast Reporter, will provide the pieces of a thousand piece jigsaw puzzle, but the picture will only emerge once it is assembled.
I'm certain that somewhere on the Coast there is someone with the writing skills, the imagination, and the time to rise to the challenge and produce, for all of us, something that we can all read and easily understand. A word picture of the Sunshine Coast, as it will be, in the future. Another H.G. Wells perhaps.
Bernard McGrath
Langdale
