The District of Squamish is not upholding its bylaw.
In May 2014, I sent a letter to all elected members and asked for removal of the graffiti under the bridge by the skate bowl beside residential properties. The reply was that the letter would be forwarded to the appropriate department for consideration. Well, we are here, now nine months later, and after several more complaints by residents it has only grown worse and no attempts have been made to clean it up.
The Squamish bylaw clearly reads: “Bylaw No. 1868, 2005… A Bylaw to Prevent Unsightliness and Other Objectionable Situations on Real Property in the District of Squamish. No owner or occupier of real property shall cause or permit: f) graffiti to be placed or remain on any buildings or structures located on such real property; Every owner and occupier of real property shall remove, or cause to be removed, from such real property and from any buildings or structures located on such real property all: graffiti.”
So Councillor Ted Prior is worried about property values when it comes to LNG related issues and Mayor Patricia Heintzman as per her recent radio interview does not seem to think that there is a problem supporting the skate bowl that is for only experienced skateboarders and not for the youth that has no transportation to downtown.
So please forgive me for questioning this, but our government is not even able to control or handle existing infrastructure and parks or for that matter all the mess that continues to grow with it (such as at Quest Bridge). What about our property values, what about our lifestyle, what about all the money we residents put into our properties to make this neighbourhood what it is today? We are ignored over and over again.
This town is getting out of control and it has to do with elected officials who make decisions on what suits them, their friends and colleagues instead of the people that care about keeping residential exactly what it should be: residential!
Maria Peterson
Garibaldi Highlands
