Opinion

Dear Editor, Turn off the TV and get off the couch. The City of Richmond needs to hear from you. In new houses, excessive 16.4 foot overheight spaces counted as one storey, will remain.

Dear Editor, Why is the city so uncaring about our concerns? The city organized two public meetings on July 8 and 9 and asked residents and developers to provide input on the issue of massive homes being built in the city.

Re: “More demolitions than ever for Richmond,” News Aug.

Can you hear that? No, it’s not the sound of another older, single-family home being demolished in Richmond. It’s an exclamation of euphoria as the sun sets — or the rain/wind sweeps — over the horizon of a marathon, 10-week summer vacation.

For those weekends when you have no plans and just want to laze around the house in your jammies watching movies, consider this: Subtitles Won’t Kill You. I was never a foreign film fan until I started watching Israeli movies with subtitles.

Assuming that summer will soon return after the recent wind and rain we’ve endured, here’s a trio of New Zealand wines to quench your September thirst. Kiwi wines are much like B.C. wines.

Dear Editor, Re: “Richmond drivers need to mind their manners,” Letters, Aug. 26. I do agree with some of the points that Janet Oakes raised in her letter. And, yes, we have in our midst many “dangerous and inconsiderate drivers.

Dear Editor, The ALR: Pygmy goats, metro ports and everything in between. It’s time to expose the Agricultural Land Reserve (ALR) as the fraud it was designed to be.

Could the public be heeded at the next public hearing? Yes, miracles can happen if we earn them. On Tuesday, Sept. 8 at 7 p.m., council will hear the public on a new-house massing bylaw. The venue is the council chambers at Richmond City Hall.

Dear Editor, Re: “Cultures united by signal allergy,” Column, Aug. 23. While signaling is definitively a lost art in Richmond, what even fewer people seem to know about is the “right of way.