Editor: I have read with great concern about the plan the Township of Langley has to sell the 25 acre forest known as McLellan Park Forest East. This very name has probably led most residents of the community to believe that this really is a park. Not so.
Residents of Langley Township should wake up and smell the coffee. Make sure that all your publicly-owned green spaces are zoned as parks and that they are designated in the Metro Vancouver Regional Growth Strategy as Conservation/Recreation.
A change in usage of such lands cannot be made without a two-thirds assenting vote of Metro’s board of directors, following a regional public hearing which all residents of the whole Metro region (22 municipalities)can attend and speak to the matter.
You cannot change what is done to devastate the forests of the Amazon, but you can protect our own forests that are in public ownership.
Helen Brown,
Langley