Editor:
In an employer’s efforts to provide housing for their employees in our community is just offering a place to sleep acceptable?
Employers should want their high quality employees to live in a place they are proud to call “home.” As we all know, finding another place to live in this town would be challenging. Shouldn’t employers have a responsibility to provide appropriate, quality housing?
The proposed development on Beaver Street would cram up to 200 employees mostly in dormitory style housing. No balconies, very little living or green space and no privacy.
When is too much density in one development too much? How does this development “respect the adjacent dwellings and historical rhythms of Beaver Street” as claimed by the developer?
Would there be as many permanent residents in this town today if we had had to get our start in dormitory housing?
Dormitory housing is not identified in the Land Use Bylaw. Since I’ve never met a politician, even in municipal government, that didn’t have a stand on important issues… I ask this council, what is your stand on dormitory housing in residential neighbourhoods in our town?
Joanne Geyer,
Banff
