Dear Editor,
Re: “City needs new RV park,” Letters, July 29, “Campers provide safe home: Nomad,” News, July 22.
After the original RV park/campground closed, the city said it wanted to rebuild it in another location, beside McDonald Beach Park on Sea Island. And, it was going to have it ready for the 2010 Olympics, but the city didn’t follow through.
Then, the city was going to build a replacement facility for the Richmond Rod and Gun Club at McDonald Beach Park after the Airport Authority let their other facility fall into ruin. Those plans didn’t happen, either.
The section of land to be used was originally housing built in the in the 1960s, but was bought by the government for future airport expansion in the 1970s and bulldozed. After this, the airport authority donated the land to an environmental trust to look after it.
Trevor Langevin
RICHMOND
