Error by city on Banks’ plan

I take exception to city council’s rejection of Tim Banks proposal for an “affordable “apartment complex next to condos on the same street.

For city council to decide that so-called “average people” should not be living next door to people who can afford to buy condos wreaks of discrimination.

I consider myself an average person, albeit, my income is most likely below average as many seniors tend to be.

But I have friends who own condos and I doubt very much if those friends would reject Banks’ apartment complex.

While I do believe the closeness of the planned building and the existing one is something to be concerned about, for six members of city council to say that rich condo owners should not have to “put up with” the average citizen living next to them is ludicrous.

Once again, I refer back to Sesame Street of yester years and that famous song my two young boys learned that taught them to be more accepting of differences in our world. It goes like this, “one of these things is not like the other, and one of these things is not quite the same.”

But nevertheless, these things should be able to function harmoniously next to each other, no matter the income levels.

City council should not have the power to segregate our capital city this way.

Kathy Birt,

Mount Stewart