Mayor Bell:
At the District council meeting on October
15, you, Council and District Staff were presented with a petition, signed by
255 residents. The petition clearly
stated that: “We the undersigned residents of the Riverside Drive
area, hereby petition the District of North Vancouver to immediately
remove the FOUR SPEED HUMPS located on Riverside
Drive.”
The summary report that accompanied the
petition specifically requested that council “Please arrange to have the speed
humps removed as soon as possible.”
A copy of the summary report is attached for your
reference.
To date there has been no response to this
petition from the District. This
lack of response seems to indicate that you, the members of the council and the
mayor have decided to ignore the desires of the vast majority (255 of 313
persons contacted) of the residents in the Riverside area. Our concern is also supported by the
reference to the petition as an “informal survey” in the minutes of the October
15th council meeting.
This reference could indicate that the mayor and members of the council
did not even bother to read the petition.
Before taking the position that the
district has chosen to ignore the carefully compiled petition that was presented
to you, I am polling you and each member of the council to determine what your
actions to this request have been.
I am also requesting a response from the district staff who were also
provided with a copy of the petition.
Your response or lack there of will be compiled and included with a copy
of the petition summary that will be mailed to every household that has asked
council to take action in this matter.
I ask that you reply by November 11th because the response to
the residents will be mailed on Monday November 12,
2001.
To assist in providing a uniform response
to the Riverside residents, I ask that you outline your responses to the
petition you received. As a
minimum, I respectfully request your responses to the following
questions.
1)
Mayor Bell, what have you done to respond to the petition
that you were presented on October 15th?
2)
Mayor Bell, will you support the request that was made in
the petition? That request was
“Please arrange to remove the speed humps as soon as
possible.”
I sincerely believe that Council has in
the past, acted on behalf of the neighbourhood as a whole. While you may have thought this is what
you were doing when the motion to install the speed humps was passed, you are
now in possession of a detailed petition, signed by the vast majority of the
residents affected, who are asking you to remove the speed
humps.
Each time we drive over the speed humps we
are reminded that our neighbourhood has been hijacked by a very vocal but small
minority. We want our neighbourhood
back!
I await your reply.
Sincerely,
Phil
Holland
2315
Riverside Drive
North
Vancouver, BC
V7H
1V8
604-924-1087
Phil.Holland@ATTGlobal.net