Dear Editor,
Re: Whistler U.
From time to time, I read comments attributed to Mayor Melamed that have me shaking my head in something between amusement and astonishment. Clearly, some new visionary leadership on council is required.
The latest is his apparent ranting against the development of the Alpha Creek lands for a university site.
I suppose if it were a proposal for an asphalt plant, it would be better received.
The fact that the mayor feels compelled to indicate that he is not a person to be “threatened” (apparently by logic) only makes his position more pathetic.
We have an appropriate site, we don’t need any more single-family housing (anyone looked at house prices in Whistler lately, which are shrinking faster than the glaciers?), we have the private leadership to make it happen, and we have a proposal that can accommodate sensitive environmental concerns. Unfortunately, we also have more airbags at City Hall than a Volvo, who apparently feel everything’s just going to be fine in the corridor, and question who needs higher education facilities in one of the most beautiful areas in the world, anyway?
The mayor can wax all he wants about the right land and the right proposal and the right zoning all needing to be found and then amalgamated into the best darn proposal the free world has ever seen, but so far his yapping in this regard greatly outweighs his ability to actually create anything. Hopefully there are others on council who have more “yup” than “yap.”
Bruce E. Thom, Q.C.
(Whistler property owner since 1998)
Whistler
