Connaught Heights Petition

I have grown up in this neighbourhood, so have my younger sisters and cousins. This housing will ruin the nice quiet neighborhood that has come a long so much! That field is enjoyed by so many people with dogs who go for walks, including us. I have been here for 28 years and this structure will be so unpleasant for the landscape of the area, disrupt the beautiful views. This neighbourhood is a family area, there are so many children and there is an amazing school with kids. We don’t want disruption in our beautiful neighbourhood. Please don’t!!

120 2222 Edinburgh St.

2021 Ninth Avenue, New Westminster

2021 Ninth Avenue, New Westminster This space is much better suited as an open area or park development. Green space in the neighbourhood is already lacking and should be preserved.

2112 Dublin street

I feel this is a ridiculous area and I feel deceived by our city of elected officials keeping this from the westside residents knowledge.

2027 8th Ave.

2027 Eighth Ave. Typical for our so called New West forward thinking council. In what world does this planned structure fit into the identified neighborhood no matter who is going to live there. Our council should be ashamed of the lack of transparency and consultation with neighborhood residents.

2244 london Street, New Westminster, BC

960 Twenty-third Street New Westminster, BC V3M 4Z4

2008 Edinburgh Street, New West

2008 Edinburgh Street, New West

2230 London Street New Westminster

2230 London Street New Westminster

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Peter Slinn, 2217 Hamilton Street, New West asks... Developing the 21st and London site to provide housing to underprivileged families sounds socially justifiable, but the following concerns should not be dismissed. That site was previously a Community Centre of social benefit to ALL Connaught residents. After an unfortunate fire it currently sits empty, but with major development and population growth projected in the new OCP for Connaught Heights in the near future, the densification will leave CH without a potential community centre site just before an even larger need for it emerges. Can sacrificing CH's old community centre land to provide social housing be offset by dedicating land in the 22nd Street Redevelopment Area for a new community centre? Or would a Redevelopment Area location better serve this project's inhabitants (who would benefit from closer proximity to transit), while retaining the old community centre site as our future centre (or possibly become a future annex of an existing community centre in another part of town)?

890 Twenty First Street

People on the neighbourhood are looking around thinking they may have to move. Please don’t drive our long term residents that have been taxpayers for year, away. Our community is already over whelmed with traffic, noise

I do not support this development. The city has not consulted the community affected by this development. The city has not been transparent and are trying to push this through under the radar.

Developing the site to provide housing to underprivileged indigenous families sounds socially justifiable, and any objections allow playing the bigotry card to bypass admitting flaws. But was Qayqayt Chief Rhonda Larrabee of the New Westminster Band consulted? Is this something her band of twelve actually needs, and is this placement culturally significant to them, or is it just a general idea which has no interest to New Westminster's original inhabitants, and will end up being a way for other municipalities to unload their own issues onto our city? If there are Qayqayt needs for this solution in Connaught Heights, then the site would have possibilities, but that site was previously a Community Centre of social benefit to ALL Connaught residents. Does turning it into a social housing project to solve non-Qayqayt problems help this city's process of reconciliation with the descendants of New Westminster's original inhabitants or will our unique neighbourhood become a doormat for a solution to problems in other municipalities that don't want to deal with them, to the detriment of ALL Connaught Heights residents? If after analyzing that and concluding that the proposed development is actually a New Westminster solution for a New Westminster problem, then it is also worth asking if the solution creates other problems. With major development and population growth projected for Connaught Heights in the near future, the densification will leave CH without a potential community centre site and/or reduced green space just when a larger need for it is developing. Can the two issues be linked so that sacrificing CH's old community centre lands can be offset by mandating a location in the 22nd Street Redevelopment OCP for a new community centre? Or would such a location nearer transit even better serve underprivileged Qayqayt members while retaining the old community centre site as our future centre?