Archive for June, 2008

The Garden City/ No. 4 Double Standard

June 14, 2008

A Richmond News article, “No. 4 owners launch suit,” reflects Richmond council’s double standard about removing land from the Agricultural Land Reserve. B.C.’s ALR legislation recognizes that there can be good reasons for removals, and there are half-acre residential properties on the east side of No. 4 Road, which almost certainly could never meet the [...]

Eco-tour of the Garden City Lands

June 5, 2008

 Update after July 27 eco-tour: Once again, all participants found the eco-tour to be informative and fun. The group spanned every age group from teens and twenties to sixties and seventies.

Update, June 6 (shown above): Despite unseasonably cold and wet weather, all seventeen participants in the June 5 eco-tour described in this post found it informative and [...]

Old news

June 1, 2008

As of June 1, 2008, the following “news points” have overstayed their welcome in this blog’s welcome message. If not quite history, they are old news.
John Cummins, MP for Delta-Richmond East, has sent a letter to the president of Canada Lands Company to request answers about conflicting statements.
On March 19, 2008, at the end of a [...]