Re: (Our View, May 14)

This is a very condescending and offensive editorial.

I live in Colwood and have attended meetings on the new development proposed for Painter and Metchosin roads and I wonder where the author got their information.

If the writerB次元官网网址檚 opinion is that Colwood residents are opposed to development, then our concerns are indeed falling on deaf ears. Residents almost unanimously stated that they are not opposed to development of the property, but they had serious concerns about the density and the number of dwellings proposed for this project.

They felt it would have too great an impact on the safety of students going to and from the surrounding schools, and would add an unmanageable number of vehicles B次元官网网址� traffic and parking B次元官网网址� to an already busy, congested street.

Who would understand the dynamics of a neighbourhood better than the people who live there and deal with it every day?

I understand that the developer wants to maximize their return on investment, and that Colwood benefits from the money these new projects bring, but this development will disrupt the lives of hundreds of residents whose opinions need to hold more weight in the decision process.

Everyone wants this new development to be something they can proudly call part of the neighbourhood, not a source of worry and irritation.

As for it being tough to envision what a development will look like, it certainly doesnB次元官网网址檛 help when the drawings donB次元官网网址檛 show driveways for nine houses on a 400-foot frontage, among other important features.

Metchosin is lovely, but many of us have made a conscious decision to live where we do. We are not people who B次元官网网址渟imply dislike change,B次元官网网址� we are a group of citizens with legitimate concerns about a development that will significantly alter our neighbourhood and we shouldnB次元官网网址檛 be made to feel that we have to move to Metchosin if we canB次元官网网址檛 agree on this out-of-character development of 45 dwellings on a two-acre lot.

Kim Vincer

Colwood