Tsawwassen Town Portal

I guess Ted Murphy must be happy with the banter.

Hope you got out and enjoyed this 1st Day of October! It was a beautiful day and a nice way to remember a wonderful late summer here on the Westcoast.

Not that you couldn't see this coming!

Here is my comment from the September 19 Delta Optimist......

This is from the Delta Optimist.

I will post my Blog version here shortly.....

Believing in a cause is important and having checks and balances in our ordinary lives helps us to reach individual and societal goals.

Century Group sponsored a lecture for the Simon Fraser University City Program featuring world renowned planner and architect Andres Duany.

Duany, co-founder of the New Urbanist Movement did not disappoint. He surprisingly lashed out at the sprawl in Metro Vancouver and he noted that he could only see "one example of good architecture in every 400 homes."

The Provincial Government announced a $14 billion transit package today. Details are available at the BC Gov Website. A pdf Overview is attached below.

We are barely in to the New Year yet I see a clear frontrunner for the lame idea of the year award.

This paper and the South Delta Leader both published net outcomes from a Delta Chamber of Commerce survey regarding support for the Tsawwasen Golf Course expansion. In the survey, the majority of Chamber members supported the idea of the golf course expansion. In a recent letter to the editor at the Leader, Liz Gough suggested that the community should boycott businesses that support the idea of the Shato Holdings Golf Course expansion project. She went on to suggest that the community should further boycott these businesses based on the idea that the Chamber generically supports the idea of port expansion.

At a recent Chamber of Commerce luncheon, Chief Kim Baird unequivocally stated that the TFN was open for business and that she and the TFN were looking forward to working with their immediate neighbours (us) in the coming years to capitalize on business opportunities. We should be glad for that.

A front page article in the November 29 Vancouver Sun is an APE supporters dream come true! How long before the local papers are filled with letters lamenting the prospects of al-Quaida's infringement on our quality of life?

On November 20 the ALC ruled in favour of the exclusion of several acres of ALR land on the North end of the Tsawwassen Golf Club that will allow Shato Holdings to move ahead with its plans for redevelopment and the addition of 500 plus new housing units and an expanded Golf Course. You can view the details HERE