LETTER TO THE EDITOR

If we had known, only a few years later, Losani Homes would break their word to us and put a zoning application to build an 8 Storey Apartment building PLUS an additional 80 townhouses on two small partials of land we would NEVER have bought in this community. Currently a complex of 3 storey above ground townhouses are just now being built and the parking from this alone, will definitely be an issue as well as very limited to no green space for family, pets or pleasure These units already tower over the exiting neighboring 2 storey townhouses and single-family homes with almost no buffer

If you go to the site, you can clearly see for yourselves, this site and the proposed sites for this rezoning just doesn’t have the space to accommodate this type of Ultra High-Density development To now add a towering 8 storey building on the highest elevation point of Mile Hill, plus another 80 townhouses seems irresponsible and bad planning as you appear to literally want to cram a city style development into an existing small-town community. The potential impact it’s going to have for citizens of this particular area needs to be addressed. These buildings will tower over neighbouring properties and eradicate any sense of privacy.

The allure to Paris for us, and I am sure the majority of residents here tonight, is that Paris is a small “town”. We are not opposed to high density when put in the right setting to support the needs such as adequate amenities, transportation, schooling, parking, green space but this location is definitely not appropriate to be developed as if it were an urban city location.

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We feel mislead by Losani Homes who apparently sold us a pipe dream, and by advertising still promoting that Paris is a small town.

We, as well as many in this room, have invested our finances and future and we are looking to you our Council, and to you our Honorable Mayor Bailey and to our MP’s if required, to make the right decision for our community!

Please don’t forget….. Losani Homes is a builder like any other I suppose, just looking for profit, but ultimately it is yourselves that will determine the future of Paris and how you want your town to grow by ensuring it is done by responsible community development and planning and to ensure everyone and everything is taken into consideration.

In closing, we look to you, Council as a whole, to please do the right thing and reject this shortsighted Zoning Amendment and build this style of Ultra High-Density housing (apartment Buildings) in a location that is best suited, where these types of buildings already exist and the infrastructure like nearby schools, Hospitals, Public Transportation and the proper amenities are available and accessible.

Thank-you for your time and most importantly your consideration to our objections of this proposal.

You can watch the full meeting HERE.