Editorial didn’t show true financial picture
Re: Let’s get farm land, cost recovery (Our View, Jan. 13)
One could be forgiven for concluding this editorial was given to Coun. Ted Daly to compose.
Your editorial suggested 10 to 15 acres be removed from the Agricultural Land Reserve for development. This despite the fact that an increase of revenue to the municipality of $350,000 was reported by the Sierra Club of B.C.
For all of the 16 years that I have lived in the municipality, the council has seen controversy. The cause has been over the ambitions of a number of its elected members to push through development, beginning with the fiasco of the race track at Sandown.
Much of the responsibility in recent years has been the drive by Coun. Daly to develop the Sandown land, village centres and other projects on ALR land in North Saanich.
Your Jan. 13 editorial appears as yet another attempt to fulfill these ambitions despite rejections by North Saanich voters.
The proposal for the Sandown race track land should be allowed to go ahead and not be subject to a small group of people who seem to have an axe to grind.
Edith C. Warhurst
North Saanich
