Letters to The Province: The park board has loved a long term

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Re: Preserve our parks and leisure amenities within the palms of those that care probably the most

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The persevering with hand-wringing by previous and current park board commissioners associated to Mayor Kim Sim’s choice to abolish the board is represented in Roslyn Cassell’s letter to the editor on Friday.

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As a former commissioner she complains vehemently that there can be an awesome loss to the group with out an impartial mandate. Her arguments, like many others, are misguided and with none foundational proof that Sim and metropolis council would abuse their place and switch inexperienced areas into “cement and asphalt.”

The park board has loved a long term as an impartial fiefdom typically making choices not consistent with public sentiment. The commissioners have taken this association without any consideration, for too lengthy, and are desperately attempting to maintain their jobs, arguing that it’s for the larger good.

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To proceed with the outdated mannequin could be problematic for an evolving and progressive council. Everybody is aware of that Stanley Park and all different inexperienced areas are treasured by Vancouver citizenry and won’t be in danger in any substantive method given the checks and balances inherent in working town.

As well as, in a metropolis as massive as Vancouver, it’s logical to consolidate all facets of metropolis administration for higher coverage and financial outcomes.

Invoice Hubbard, North Vancouver 

Park board choice ought to be directed by voting, taxpaying public

It’s not the correct of Vancouver metropolis council to hunt the dissolution of the park board. It’s the democratic proper of the voting public to direct town to strategy the B.C. authorities or to face down.

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Granted, the authorized route could also be by means of the Vancouver Constitution, however it falls behind the overriding prerogative of the general public curiosity. Then the general public decides by means of a referendum what’s greatest for the Metropolis of Vancouver. A transition board is barely legitimate as soon as the voters decides that the park board be folded into metropolis corridor.

The general public curiosity can greatest be served provided that either side of the difficulty are totally disclosed and debated, and solely then directed by the voting and taxpaying public.

Gary Cohen, Vancouver

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