To the Editor,
Re: RDN rejects proposed cell tower site, Feb. 24.
We would like to congratulate the Regional District of Nanaimo for considering the needs of children at Ecole Hammond Bay.
Their willingness to be “observing the precautionary principle” and not consider any site for a cellphone tower within 500 metres of a school is commendable.
Our children attend École Quarterway. At Quarterway, we are not dealing with the precautionary-principled RDN, but the City of Nanaimo.
Our perceived, possible, actual threat to our children is a ‘done deal’, as we finally had a city planner admit.
Flanking our school, 100 and 200 metres from the schoolgrounds, will be two low-barrier housing units for people suffering from concurrent disorders (a combination of mental health issues and drug and/or alcohol addiction).
I doubt that the RDN meeting the Hammond Bay parents attended had such the representation our meeting with the city had.
As central Nanaimo parents, we feel we have enough low-barrier housing, and the problems they may bring, in our neighbourhood.
As Quarterway parents, we love, worry and are concerned about our children just as much as parents in another neighborhood love, worry and are concerned about their children.
Heather and Lorne Northrop
Nanaimo
