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LETTER - Resident concerned with proposed placement of new Courtenay shelter

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The Connect Centre is seen on Oct. 26, 2023. Courtenay council announced that the centre would move to the same location as the new supportive housing project on Braidwood Road. (Connor McDowell/Comox Valley Record)

Dear editor,

We live in a strata at 950 Braidwood Road in Courtenay.

Last week we were told the news that BC Housing has purchased the property across from us, for the purpose of assisted housing and a homeless shelter and emergency warming centre. Last we heard, the property was supposed to be a senior’s home.

You can only imagine our horror and dismay after hearing the mayor’s comment that the Connect Centre would be relocated to 925 Braidwood. We have all seen the calamitous state across from city hall. That will now be part of our life on Braidwood Road. We do not feel safe and I’m sure no one in the Valley would want this to happen to them regardless of the plight of the homeless. We have reached out to Doug Hillian and the mayor but at this time only Doug has responded.

Please Courtenay council, approve the assisted housing, not the shelter and emergency warming centre.

Paul & Lorna Locke,

Courtenay.





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