The Editor, Re: "Richmond Walmart hits buffer, again," News, Sept. 18.
I am a resident of the city centre. We have Target just opening and two other major malls in the area, not to mention three lesser ones.
There are lots of dollar stores and other discount stores, and there's already a Walmart just down the road in Queensborough.
I don't think we need another big shopping centre on Alderbridge.
If council does approve Walmart, they will lose my support. But if they do approve it, I want them to please P-L-EA-S-E tone it down so they leave at least a 15-or 20-metre green strip of what is now growing there.
I would really like more of the forest in the area of No. 4 Road and Alderbridge maintained too.
I am one of those who really enjoy having the Garden City Lands there and I don't want to be at the lands and looking across the street at a mall. Imagine doing that at Stanley Park or Garry Point! Council is reviewing this proposal again on Oct. 8. If you share my concerns, please let them know how you feel by calling or writing them. Sometimes as few as 30 pieces of correspondence can change things.
Lorne Brandt
Richmond
