No housing developments on the Juan De Fuca Trail

Comments to CRD board at Juan de Fuca hearing:

As an avid hiker, climber and general outdoors person, I moved to Vancouver Island, here “on the edge of nowhere” because of its uniqueness; and because it’s one of the few places left in North America that still has some semblance of an in tact ecosystem. Our home provides a wide array of outdoor opportunities for people of all levels. There are amazing places for exploring, for encountering and viewing wildlife, and for regaining calm and composer that is so easily lost in this world’s busy lifestyle. I highly, highly value Vancouver Island’s wild lands and don’t want to see them lost.

We don’t want the Juan de Fuca Tail to become yet another footpath that winds its way through an ex-urban sprawl of housing developments. We already have plenty of those. In Goldstream Provincial Park, wehn you climb to the top of Mount Findlayson, your reward is a view of the adjacent golf courses and condos from the bankrupt Bear Mountain Development and its overpass to nowhere. Ex-urban housing developments, such as this one, fragment and destroy wildlife habitat, and degenerate the wildness that gives Vancouver Island its spirit and uniqueness. I don’t want to see our home become just another generic vacation-land for rich Vancouver-ites. I urge you to please oppose the bylaw amendments.