Dear Editor,
[Re: Mayors diverge on Victoria’s 4-plex plans, Langley Advance Times, Nov. 16]
In the paper, they’re talking about how multiplex zoning without parking will be chaotic for
residences.
But in my opinion, as someone with six decades of experience in the water and sewage industry, parking isn’t going to be the big problem.
Older water lines are probably only one half-inch, and as they get a little newer they may have been upgraded to a three quarter-inch line. If they remove the original one-family house and put a multiplex in there, that water line will not supply enough water for that building anymore.
So if the guy in the upper floor has a shower and the guy in the bottom floor flushes the toilet, the upper floor doesn’t have any water.
And because the sewer is also going to be too small what comes in has to go out. So if the guy upstairs flushes, it’s going to come out the toilet of the guy downstairs because the sewer can’t handle it.
There has been the odd reference to infrastructure by planners, but they’ve never actually sat down and said this is what the part of the problem is, that the water supply is going to be too small to service all these things and the storage supply to take away is also going to be too small.
This is something that needs to be looked at.
Tim Wilson, Otter
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