Editor,
re: White Rock opts for uptown community hub
Mayor Knight claims that the only scenario open to the city to create a new city hall and other services (seniors centre, daycare, etc,) is to move them to a tower in uptown White Rock. She and the others who voted for this option seem to ignore the value of having all of the city's major assets, such as the fire hall and police station, located together, in effect, making a real community hub.
Councillors Chesney and Trevelyn hit the nail on the head by noting that city hall already sits in a perfectly good location for all that the city wishes to incorporate in a community hub. Selling off such a valuable piece of real estate so that these services can be crammed into a small footprint highrise is the exact opposite of providing a vision for the future. The use of city hall's current location allows for some truly visionary thinking by keeping our biggest assets all together on one civic block. There would be ample space to include a seniors centre and other support services with the added bonus of being able to include subsidized housing on the upper floors of a new building.
Let's not be fooled by the false argument that this parcel of land needs to be sold off in order to provide housing. We can, in fact, have both right where the current city hall sits.
Hannah Newman, White Rock
