Further development of this community will create overcrowding and lose the
appeal that makes Tsawwassen a desirable place to live. Loss of green space and
the increased encroachment of concrete and traffic lights is certainly
unappealing. In the short stretch between highway 17 and 6th avenue, we already
have 10, out of sync, traffic lights. Imagine what would happen to the traffic
with a developed Southlands. Of all people who should know this, it should be
the current Mayor who was concerned with the Deltaport traffic and additional
truck traffic to the ferry terminal.

Driving down 56th is akin to driving through an outback highway strip mall festooned
with a myriad of excessively loud commercial signage and replete with an over
abundance of gas stations at the busiest corners. There is no need for such blatant
advertising as this is a cul-de-sac bedroom community. The locals all know where
everyone is. Imagine what this would look like with a substantial residential
increase. Additional restaurants and retailers would spring up with signage that
would undoubtedly have to be larger than Alpha or Mario's Kitchen, just to get
everyone's attention.

No amount of centre islands with foreign palms and carnival lamp posts will obviate
the commercial nature of this area. I fear, given the predominant bias by our
municipal government over the last twenty years to develop, the above scenario will
be more than exacerbated. Strip mall heaven…

Leave the community as it is.

Leave the land as it is.

This community does not need or warrant more development and certainly not more
density.
Peter Pichler