There are some deep concerns with the approval of this new development on Pine Drive (Pine Drive project gets green light, June 10). I’ll deal first with the most concerning.
Developer Tim Banks says that no matter what happens, this apartment is going up since he will not wait to see if there happens to be an appeal to IRAC.
Democracy is falling prisoner to deep-pocketed developers and also the fact that since the outbreak of the coronavirus, people can’t go to City Hall to participate in meetings.
APM/MacLeans/Pan American Properties already have several projects on the go which should already be dealing with the housing crisis, as well as other developers’ projects.
In all fairness, I suppose that there will be affordable units, whatever that means, in these units. The shortage of housing applies to the low-income citizens in which 95 per cent of units being currently constructed will not help.
I also am curious as to how many people really want to live in apartments since the coronavirus outbreak? You end up becoming a prisoner of your own residence.
Gordon Gay,
Charlottetown
