Dear Editor,
Re: 91原创 Advance, Wayne Crossen (president of BFCA) letter of April 27, 2017.
Wayne Crossen has used a personal attack in a defensive effort to legitimize the image of his Brookswood-Fernridge Community Organization (BFCA).
What the readers of his incoherent letter won鈥檛 know is that he is responding to internal Community Planning Team (CPT) debating comments, where I had challenged the validity of some of those debating comments and cast aspersions on the BFCA鈥檚 motives.
Wayne Crossen says 鈥淭he BFCA is not some radical activist group鈥�. As a landholder, he accuses me of being in a position to profit from densification when I have been vigorously advocating for the opposite, especially in the single family areas, (where our property is likely to be in), where we have lived for 44 years and plan to stay.
I find the BFCA website to be quite biased with a controlled narrative full of misinformation.
BFCA appears to be a closed circle group of private members, aligned with other anti-development closed groups like David Chamber鈥檚 鈥楲eave Brookswood Alone鈥�.
They are also politically aligned with a couple of anti-development (voting record) Township councillors who take up their causes. Their past rhetoric has berated councillors who voted to approve developments.
Their website vilifies Developers as evil profit motive outsiders. In the real world, Developers are a traditional necessity as nothing gets built without them.
Their main thrust appears to be political agitating, inciting their members to pressure the council and staff with email letters based on what I consider questionable information and assumptions.
Protests were held in March and July of 2016. Excerpt L. Advance鈥︹�淩ally/protest organizer Michael McGarry said the Rally鈥�.will be a protest over developments that will see trees cut from several properties鈥�. Michael McGarry is also a director of BFCA.
This appears a protest against all development using the trees as hostage, since it鈥檚 impossible to develop without displacing trees.
They tout their flowery mission statement but the past actions of their leadership makeup and their agenda appear contrary. I would categorize BFCA as an 鈥渁nti-development political activist protest group.鈥�
I think they mean well but don鈥檛 realize the unintended consequences as their tree saving activism will only serve to create small compact lots with parking problems, while increasing the cost of housing. The 87-plan of 7,000 sq. ft. lots is the most generous you will see in today鈥檚 world.
The trouble with belonging to an activist organization group is you have to go along with the 鈥榞roup think鈥� agenda. I choose activism as an individual (group of one) based on realistic rational logic of the issues.
Roland Seguin, Fernridge
