To the Editor: Well, I guess we have a decision. The people have voted, or did they? Quote: "I feel this is in the best interests of the City of Weyburn. We are so short of housing" unquote.
To the Editor:
Well, I guess we have a decision. The people have voted, or did they?
Quote: "I feel this is in the best interests of the City of Weyburn. We are so short of housing" unquote. Now in most cities these things are usually talked about in more depth before coming to be, I guess I missed that edition of the paper.
Yes, I am well aware of the housing shortage, I am a renter myself, but what I see is apartments being turned into condos, and condos being built all around us. Affordable housing is talked about constantly, but affordable for whom?
Not all us work in the oil patch, or are not physically able to.
Now for the preservation of our green spaces. We do have a beautiful camp spot by the river and that's about it except for the hospital grounds, which will soon be lost.
I have seen many cities and even small towns in Canada and south of the border that build their cities around their parks and wildlife refuges, not in them.
There is the walkway that surrounds our city, which is beautiful to walk along on a nice day, but is in need of some major repairs on some of it's legs.
The thing about the parkway is, you don't see a lot of joggers or walkers along it when the winter wind blows, but you see numerous people daily on the grounds and pathways of the hospital roads because of the windbreak of the trees and vegetation and the peacefulness of the surroundings, perhaps even chance sighting of the wildlife that lives there.
The care home that also is situated on this land had to ensure a long period of dust and noise due to the demolition of the hospital. I know this because my mother and aunt both reside there. Now we are going to bring to their summers excavating, dust and noise.
I have lived here for 55 years and saw development continually moving east and north of the city, but I guess we've run out of room in those directions eh? Well I've had my say and I'll end with saying it's sad to see an area that took long to develop as a natural habitat being doomed at the expense of so-called progress.
Murray Pawlak
Weyburn
