Council masters of the obvious

Dear editor: For almost three years, a dedicated group of city selected and appointed citizens worked diligently to add clarity as to a park definition. The mandate given this group was to fine tune what a park really is.

The group worked hard to come up with something that would hopefully clarify this once and for all. For the record, I have come up with a definition that didn’t need bags of money to promote:

“A park is an area of natural, semi-natural or planted space set aside for human enjoyment and recreation or for the protection of wildlife or natural habitats.”

Note: Nowhere in this definition is there any mention of commercial development for profit, private venture, leases, etc.

I was fortunate enough to attend some of these meetings and I saw, firsthand, what some of the issues that needed to be dealt with were. There were long drawn out discussions as to the semantics of these issues. Dear editor: Greed and ignorance destroyed Kelowna.

Kelowna city council disconnected from the people a long time ago and instead logged onto the chamber’s frequency and responded to the constant demand for growth at any cost, to put more customers into their hungry stores. Today the population of Kelowna is 120,000, and the chamber wants another 50,000. Our city council has adopted the same destructive ambitions, and is determined to grow Peachland bigger and uglier, and the sooner the better.

The corporation of Peachland is like any other corporation, public