The proposed housing on Front Street beside the Nelson and District Community Complex is hideous. The need is not disputed; it’s all too real. But on that site, that size is dead wrong. The ugliness is insupportable. We live in a beautiful place. Why tolerate such urban blight?
Find somewhere for this giant piece of horrible to be that’s less visible – along Government Road or vacant land on the west edges of town, or Rosemont near Hallo’s 24 gentrification townhouses, or across the Nelson Bridge where the motel was converted to a homeless shelter.
When I was an unsuccessful candidate for Nelson council (eight times in the ‘90s and ‘00s) my stance against ugly growth went unappreciated by voters. I warned against directions urban development might go. This Nelson CARES project is precisely what I meant.
Council, citizens, taxpayers – we must say NO to this at the public hearing.
Charles Jeanes, Nelson
