To mayor and council: we will attend tonight’s council meeting at which you will discuss your intention to close a portion of Winn Road by enacting Bylaw No. 1239, 2017.
We, tax paying property owners of Gibsons, consider that we would be affected by the proposed bylaw. We walk daily to deliver and receive mail at Gibsons Post Office and down Winn Road to the waterfront pathway which is accessible by seniors like ourselves as well as mothers with strollers, and we see no intention or undertaking to provide safe accessibility either during construction or on completion.
As former owners and operators of Suncoast Sailcruise we have experienced harmful impacts by actions of the developer that contributed to closure of our marine training business in 2016 after 22 years. We now see that the marine sales dock has closed, as well as other instructors disposing of their vessels.
We witnessed the neglect of the Hyak site since the developer took ownership resulting in closure of its vessel maintenance facility in 2010. Now we see the failure to clean up and secure properties following last year’s premature demolitions at Winn Road.
We have also seen what look like misrepresentations on the required environmental site profile filed by the developer. 
Is this the kind of integrity that Gibsons can count on to fulfill responsibilities stipulated in a Town of Gibsons bylaw without further damage to businesses and lowered quality of life for residents?
We request that consideration of the subject bylaw be deferred until the site contamination issue has been resolved and the town otherwise abides by its mandatory statutory obligations. We also request that the developer be directed to clean up and erect proper fences without delay around the Winn Road site to improve its safety and eliminate its unsightly appearance.
John Ewart Roper, B. A. Sc., P. Eng.
Pamela Mary Proctor, B. Ed., Teacher
Great letter John and Pam!
Thank you John and Pam for voicing some of our many justified concerns of the albatross the town council is trying to jam down our throats. We moved here to paradise for unpaved access to the ocean, to wildlife, to a rain forest, clean air, stillness, the sound of birds, clean water. We are not willing to exchange all this for the clink of money in far away pockets.