Speak out about the proposed private Observation Tower in QE Park

An Observation Tower has been proposed for Queen Elizabeth Park - Observation Tower. This seems an unwise for many reasons, not the least of which is that the project is a private enterprize in a precious public Vancouver space.

The Public Process regarding this project is coming soon.

The Park Board will consider this report at its regular meeting on

Monday, January 28th at 7:00 p.m. in the Park Board Administrative

Office, 2099 Beach Avenue, Vancouver.

You may inform yourself at the Parks website

If you wish to speak to this report, please contact Julie Casanova at

604-257-8451 by 12:00 noon on Monday, January 28th, 2008.

You might consider when you speak that such a tower in QE Park goes against many Vancouver values; that far more valuable resources will be destroyed or harmed in building, maintaining and providing infrastructure than by trimming a few trees so we can see the mountains again; that Vancouver is an earthy city with Stanley Park, the Endowment Lands; that a tower will destroy the view as well as improve it.

Please consider speaking out.