Anmore Land Use by SD43 - Clean Air Pollution, asset or liability?
Posted on | February 27, 2009 |
On a balance scale, would building the proposed Heritage Woods Middle School in Anmore, be a positive or negative effect on forest, streams and creeks?
Land Use
The design of cities and our roadways, and the location of our places of work and home and other aspects of land use all influence how much we need our motor vehicles to get around. The concern is that this dependency secures or increases transportation’s role as one of the major sources of air pollution.
At the same time, forests, prairies and other natural features are lost in order to make way for our roads, cities and industrial activities, which can reduce the ability of the environment to naturally filter out many air pollutants, or even maintain healthy populations.
http://www.ec.gc.ca Cleanair-Air Pollution Issues
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For more information regarding the proposed building of Heritage Middle School please contact:
Village of Anmore - Anmore Mayor Hal Weinberg, Councilor John McEwen, Councilor Kerri Palmer Isaak, Councilor Mario Piamonte, Anmore Councilor Chris Sedergreen. 2697 Sunnyside Road, Anmore, BC, V3H 5G9
School District 43 – SD43 - Tom Grant Superintendant of Schools, Dan Derpak, Assistant Superintendant of Schools, Holly Butterfield School Trustee. 550 Poirier Street, Coquitlam, B.C. V3J 6A7
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4 Responses to “Anmore Land Use by SD43 - Clean Air Pollution, asset or liability?”
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February 27th, 2009 @ 4:00 pm
It’s obvious that building a school so far out of the way only increases car dependency and socializes our children to think the same way. I wish that more people were concerned with urban sprawl issues and how they relate to this school. I looked at your link about sustainable communities. It seems as though this project is going the complete opposite direction, it seems as though they are purposely going out of the way to do so, and I wonder why ?
February 27th, 2009 @ 5:04 pm
It is very sad when forests are cut down for urban sprawl. My children were extremely upset when the forest was cut down to make way for the Dogwood development.
February 28th, 2009 @ 1:43 pm
It is sad to see any of our trees being cut down. Especially for a saving face project like Heritage Woods Middle.
List of closed schools due to lack of funding, needing to make cutbacks. They like to call it decline in enrollment which is probably true but for school closures??
College Park Elementary closed June 2007 Coronation Park Elementary closed June 2007
Lincoln Elementary closed June 2007
Millside Elementary closed June 2007
Vanier Elementary closed June 2007
Ioco School closed June 2005
Burquitlam Elementary closed June 2003
Cedarbrook Elementary closed June 2003
Montgomery Elementary closed June 2003
SD43; 9 closed. Between the 2001–02 and 2007–08 school years, 177 public schools in BC have been closed.
Suddenly lots of money is being generously offered and we feel the need to build a new school. I hate to sound like a broken record but can we not re-use what is already existing? Just add onto existing structures, or tear those down and rebuild?
I’ve read studies that support small schools for fewer discipline problems, higher graduation rates and higher achievement. What do they consider a “small school”? No more than 250 students. So maybe a big box school for 500 students is not what we need.
March 2nd, 2009 @ 4:10 pm
Maybe two small schools in two different areas…causes less waste perhaps ? Has this been taken into consideration.