Dear Editor:
I noticed Rocky View County (RVC) is holding a workshop on social media. Given that councillors Ashdown, Habberfield, McLean, Solberg and Boehlke were only too willing to reject majority local opinion opposed to the Bingham Crossing mall development in Springbank “because” some of it was delivered as e-mail, RVC’s workshop could not be more timely.
Hopefully, the above visionaries from distant RVC divisions will attend the workshop and see the benefit of adopting this newfangled e-stuff to council. Who knows, it may do away with the need for residents from the west to stay up to 2 a.m. on a weekday defending their local councillors defending their area structure plans from developer-funded councillors from distant divisions. Maybe one day, this newfangled e-post thingamajig may even replace Reeve Ashdown and Councillor McLean’s $500 Bingham Crossing-branded postal pigeons.
Hope you spend at least some of the weekend outside enjoying our beautiful countryside ‘west’ of Calgary, because thanks to councillors Ashdown and McLean and the other visionaries from the ‘east’, another few million square feet of it will soon be gone, forever replaced with a wasteland of more sprawl and a septic lagoon already filled to the brim from their last bungled mall project with $70 million in debt and $200 million in unfunded liability.
Dr. Richard Wilson
