Cumberland BC: The Cumberlander Articles Section
Uncategorized · 23rd January 2008
Editor
As stated on the Trilogy Development Corporation website:
Comprehensive planning adds value and quality of life to the community
The Canadian Institute of Planners defines the comprehensive planning process as: “the scientific, aesthetic, and orderly disposition of land, resources, facilities and services with a view to securing the physical, economic and social efficiency, health
and well-being of urban and rural communities”.
It is reasonable to assume that the already compromised air quality of the Comox Valley will be severely diminished by MEGA developments like the one proposed by Trilogy. There will be a dramatic increase in car, truck and air traffic as a direct result of their intensive, fossil-fuel-dependent development. Incineration of wastes at the regional landfill site will increase dramatically as more and more people fulfill the consumer lifestyle glorified by this development.
Respiratory distress in many citizens throughout the Valley is an expectable result of proposed development. How can this be said to add “value and quality of life to the community” ?
Who pays for medical costs related to physical ailments arising from increased development?
Comprehensive planning adds value and quality of life to the community
The Canadian Institute of Planners defines the comprehensive planning process as: “the scientific, aesthetic, and orderly disposition of land, resources, facilities and services with a view to securing the physical, economic and social efficiency, health
and well-being of urban and rural communities”.
It is reasonable to assume that the already compromised air quality of the Comox Valley will be severely diminished by MEGA developments like the one proposed by Trilogy. There will be a dramatic increase in car, truck and air traffic as a direct result of their intensive, fossil-fuel-dependent development. Incineration of wastes at the regional landfill site will increase dramatically as more and more people fulfill the consumer lifestyle glorified by this development.
Respiratory distress in many citizens throughout the Valley is an expectable result of proposed development. How can this be said to add “value and quality of life to the community” ?
Who pays for medical costs related to physical ailments arising from increased development?
Better quality of air?
The Oil Age
Cumberland in winter.
Unbiased facts don't lie
Comment by Fred on 24th January 2008
Many years ago I worked for a company that manufactured "smoke stack monitors" that were capable of remotely measuring the pollution produced by gigantic industrial plants with huge chimneys bellowing waste into the air. On that scale they were capable of adversely changing air quality, but a handful of residences with wood stoves and another handful of small manufacturing / processing plants will have an insignificant effect because what they produce is let loose into tens of thousands of uninhabited acres covered by thousands of feet of air. Any pollution generated is only concentrated in the immediate area of the source. Yes, it all adds up, but that's an unfortunate consequence of billions of people on the planet (plus a few idiots like Bush).
What is this development that you seem intent on demonized going to do that is unusual?
Unless they plan some highly concentrated, highly unorthodox activities, you will have far less air problem than the residents of Courtenay and Comox have today.
Many years ago I worked for a company that manufactured "smoke stack monitors" that were capable of remotely measuring the pollution produced by gigantic industrial plants with huge chimneys bellowing waste into the air. On that scale they were capable of adversely changing air quality, but a handful of residences with wood stoves and another handful of small manufacturing / processing plants will have an insignificant effect because what they produce is let loose into tens of thousands of uninhabited acres covered by thousands of feet of air. Any pollution generated is only concentrated in the immediate area of the source. Yes, it all adds up, but that's an unfortunate consequence of billions of people on the planet (plus a few idiots like Bush).
What is this development that you seem intent on demonized going to do that is unusual?
Unless they plan some highly concentrated, highly unorthodox activities, you will have far less air problem than the residents of Courtenay and Comox have today.
Huh?
Comment by Terry on 24th January 2008
Air quality and waste management problems already plague Cumberland as a small village. The proposed Trilogy development would only add to these problems. If we really want to lessen an already bad situation, we would halt development altogether.
Air quality and waste management problems already plague Cumberland as a small village. The proposed Trilogy development would only add to these problems. If we really want to lessen an already bad situation, we would halt development altogether.
Nonesense!
Comment by Fred on 24th January 2008
This is wishful thinking.
It is hopelessly over amplified in an attempt to make a non existent point.
How can a tiny by comparison, low density settlement create problems not experienced by large cities with many times the density and size?
This is wishful thinking.
It is hopelessly over amplified in an attempt to make a non existent point.
How can a tiny by comparison, low density settlement create problems not experienced by large cities with many times the density and size?