Niagara-on-the-Lake Local received the following letter to the editor from reader Nigel Napier-Andrews.
We sold our Toronto townhouse and moved to the peace and quiet of NOTL because we were fed up with developers walking all over our neighbourhood.
Within a few hundred feet of our Annex property, developers pushed through plans for eight, 10, 20 and 28 storey buildings.
All this when the official plan called for a maximum height of three storeys. Somehow the developers always got their way.
They asked for 12 and settled for 10 storeys and so on.
Or they diverted attention from height by debating exterior cladding.
We are thrilled to be here. We want to see the heritage nature of the old town preserved.
Don’t let developers use divisive and diversionary tactics to get their way.
The proposed hotel on the site of the old school is a preposterous invasion.
Cut it back like bindweed.
Nigel Napier-Andrews, Niagara-on-the-Lake
