Letters to the editor

New system will cause stress

To the editor:
RE:By-law officers have new high-tech tool

It made me laugh to read the denial by the City that the new $75K parking toy is not intended as a cash grab. I sincerely hope that if one of those responsible for the ever limited parking around the hospital is a patient there (or is one of their family), the staff members looking after them are concentrating on the care they are giving rather than when and how far they next have to move their vehicle.

This new “big brother” tool will cause even more anxiety to those already coping with the very stressful working conditions at KGH. Not everyone lives within bicycling or walking distance (and how do you pick up children from daycare on a bicycle?) How many citations will it take to amortize the cost of this gee-whiz technology?

Georgia Head

Maybe new tool will help

To the editor:
RE:Bylaw tool seems silly


In the recent poll regarding the cameras monitoring the parking...I was about to vote against this idea, and I was about to click the mouse, but then I thought maybe this parking car thing will force those parking on Pandosy to follow the rules a little more, employees from the shops who park on the street all day, taking up spots that should be available to customers perhaps?

I am skeptical of a parking problem existing, but IF (a really big if) it does, maybe this new technology will magically solve the parking problem, the NOW building can go ahead as planned, and everyone can stop boycotting merchants.

As a result of this revelation, I decided that maybe the parking-big-brother-mobile might not be as bad as I originally thought.

Ryan Klassen

Women and children need peaceful place

To the editor:
RE:Letter writer won't shop at Pandosy stores

Funny thing when this all started I just knew that the Pandosy Merchants where going to take a beating. I honestly don't think its fair to both parties with what is going on. I don't understand why anyone would want to place such a building in the middle of shopping. These women and children are in such a critical point in their lives needing a quiet place where they can heal and build their lives up again. How can this happen in the middle of a shopping district?

It just doesn't make sense to me at all. This really is sad that so many people are swinging their bats at these merchants. I enjoy going down to Pandosy where there are no pan handlers begging for money and no drug dealers. Its a lovely place to go. Please people, think about the women and children that need a quiet place. They don't need to come out their back door to be in the middle of a shopping district.

Let's all try and get along and work together to get this resolved. There are lots of places that NOW Canada could be comfortable in this city.
Lets all put our heads together not beat them together. Think of a peaceful solution.


Cheryl-Ann Shannon

Everyone needs to blame someone else

To the editor:
RE:Precedents will affect future of city


Another business suing the city. In this period of economic downfall,
I guess everyone needs to blame the lack of business on someone else.
I highly doubt that this location went out of business solely because of the
change of the lay-out of the roads. If I was the city, I would ask to look
into the financial records of the last seven years. They will probably find
that the profits went down significantly when KSS moved to their new
location. This was most likely the reason other fast food places went out
of business in the same area.

Yes, it is sad that people lost money and their livelihoods, but that is a risk you take when you open your own business.

Stephanie Robinson

Bylaw tool seems silly

To the editor:
RE:By-law officers have new high-tech tool


Here we are once again, with being told to go green all the time, so the City of Kelowna, instead of a bylaw enforcement person walking around check marking tires and looking for over parked cars, they put someone in a car now to drive around. Now you have a person driving around doing this, and at the same time now, polluting the air with it's exhaust.

Doesn't make a lot of sense to me.

Dale Topham