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LETTER: North Vancouver pigeon prohibition bylaw benefits all district residents

Dear editor: My parents, who passed away recently in Penticton, lived for many years in an apartment overlooking Skaha Lake. Their twilight years were plagued by pigeon excrement daily deposited on their balcony.
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Dear editor:

My parents, who passed away recently in Penticton, lived for many years in an apartment overlooking Skaha Lake. Their twilight years were plagued by pigeon excrement daily deposited on their balcony. A bylaw forbidding the keeping of pigeons would have improved the quality of their lives. The rights of others should not impede the peaceful enjoyment of one’s property. I thus wholeheartedly support the DNV Pigeon Prohibition Bylaw 8402.

Just because this issue was initiated by an impacted citizen before she was elected as a councillor does not mean that the rest of council cannot deliberate on the issue. A councillor has the same rights (to their quality of life) as any other DNV citizen. In my humble opinion, the impacted councillor behaved honourably by recusing herself from both debating and voting on this issue.

Yes, perhaps only one home was currently negatively impacted (which I highly doubt) but any one of us could have been negatively impacted in the future. In my humble opinion the vast majority of our residents are better off with this prohibition. This is one of the few bylaws that would be easy to enforce. I wish to express my heartfelt thanks to council for this pigeon prohibition bylaw.

Corrie Kost
North Vancouver

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