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Re: B.C. introduces laws to encourage communities to construct properties close to transit hubs.
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I’ve some doubt relating to the advantages of proposed laws for brand spanking new properties close to transit hubs talked about by Housing Minister Ravi Kahlon and the NDP. I believe it would create housing issues for individuals who already dwell close to transit hubs — greater property taxes and being compelled to seek out new properties.
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In February 2019, I bought a apartment within the Burquitlam space and dwell near the Burquitlam SkyTrain Station. Since then, a minimum of 5 condo buildings have been demolished and the residents in these buildings had been compelled out. The place they went, I don’t know. However I’d imagine most, if not all, received one other residence however with inferior dwelling preparations comparable to greater rents, extra commute time and decreased entry to shops.
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The brand new properties which have been constructed or being constructed the place I’m can have extra capability for residents, however possible be extra unaffordable then what was there earlier than.
How is that to assist ease the housing drawback?
Vincent Lizee, Coquitlam
Re: B.C. shifts ambulance staffing for rural communities in bid to spice up emergency care
Kudos to our NDP authorities for appearing on one thing that ought to have been executed many, a few years in the past by them and the previous Liberal authorities.
Be aware the hypocrisy when at this time’s authorities makes this an instantaneous occasion when genuinely it takes somebody greater than a 12 months and lots of 1000’s of their very own {dollars} to turn into an authorized paramedic. No fast repair like they counsel.
Jeff Laurie, Langley. Laurie is a retired paramedic
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Cancel one tax, pay extra elsewhere
The chief of the B.C. United, a.ok.a. Liberal get together, Kevin Falcon goes to scrap the provincial gasoline tax.
So how will authorities pay for street repairs, bridges and transit prices?
Perhaps extra property and gross sales tax. This tax is not going to actually be dropped, it is going to be moved.
Anybody who believes this isn’t firing on all cylinders.
Brian Barnes, Steveston
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