Friday 14 October 2011

BC Place Stadium officials continue to assault residents’ health and well-being

This CBC story demonstrates how PavCo has shown reckless disregard for residents’ sleep, health and well-being. What is the reasoning given by PavCo for sidestepping City of Vancouver bi-laws, ignoring urban planning best practices and going ahead and building a giant video screen directly in front of hundreds of glass residential homes? – “The project is being done under Provincial jurisdictions” and so they claim that they’re not legally bound to consider the health and well-being of the residents in the neighbourhood. (CBC video link should appear just below this paragraph)