The Editor,
The scene: Steveton's beautiful main boardwalk with a beautiful pathway beside the Fraser River and an open park with children laughing and families smiling. On the field with daises springing, is a picnic table with a seated family watching the reflecting sunset turn the water into a tranquil golden colour.
Then that scene is bulldozed and replaced with grey, tall buildings, trapping Steveston's beauty into a dark prison, not surrounded by nature, but by coffee shops, overpriced stores, and polluting cars.
The idea to build apartments right on the boardwalk defeats the purpose of the Steveston walkway. It becomes suffocating and grey and not at all enjoyable. The beauty is breathless.
If they built a park there instead, the families that are crammed together trying to enjoy the broken remains of the fisherman's village would actually embrace the heritage of Steveston with open arms.
Steveston is not here to squish people together through commerce; Steveston is here to unite people together through beauty.
Angelica Poversky Richmond
