Editor:
We would like to add our voice of dissent about the proposed plan that would join Franklin Road with the Gospel Rock neighbourhood plan.
What was the select committee thinking when they came up with this proposal? First, they sprang the plan on us without prior consultation. Further, if they had thought about it for long, they would have known there would be serious protests from residents.
We wonder if it isn't mean-spirited retribution for the fact that the Franklin Road people succeeded in overturning several council votes to turn Franklin into a wide, straight road, and now we have the narrow, curved, landscaped road we want with gravel sidewalks.
Even if a traffic circle is built, it will still be a dangerous five-road intersection. We believe traffic will go down the narrow road of Franklin producing danger, noise and pollution, and once there, the route will not be removed.
We bought our homes on Franklin based on the existing beauty and peaceful ambience, and we wonder at the thinking that would pander to developers while upsetting and annoying the lives of existing taxpayers.
Is council thinking only about future tax revenues instead of listening to the long-time residents of the town?
Franklin is a steep road unsuitable for buses and major traffic. If routes of connection to major thoroughfares are to service new housing, condos, etc., they should be built on the developers' land.
Andrew and Pam MacKenzie
Gibsons
