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Portables are fine, just not ugly ones

Re: “$25M school expansion for 600 students,” Jan. 9. There’s nothing wrong with portables. We just have to stop buying the ugly ones. Factories in B.C. produce well-designed and well-built modular and manufactured homes every day.

Re: “$25M school expansion for 600 students,” Jan. 9.

There’s nothing wrong with portables. We just have to stop buying the ugly ones.

Factories in B.C. produce well-designed and well-built modular and manufactured homes every day. They are sold to consumers who are making the biggest purchase of their lives for a home to live in.

The consumers demand a quality product. Taxpayers are consumers. We have the buying power to demand a quality product.

Every school should be designed with the ability to meet changes in the school population in all neighbourhoods. Attractive, well-built portables should be an accepted design requirement of every school. Attractive breezeways can be added between buildings. We are limited only by our imagination.

Wanda Erikson

Nanaimo