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LETTER: Why so many windows and no overhangs for West Coast RCMP detachment

Reader in favour of Mounties getting new police station, but questioning the design
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Pitt Meadows councillors debated the merits of four difference police station designs. Some councillors liked the curved roof in Option 3, but it came at a higher cost. Option 4 was the choice, beating Option 1 on a 5-2 vote. Special to The News)

Dear Editor,

[RE: Pitt Meadows councillors approve RCMP building design, June 24, The News

To begin with, I come from a long line of RCMP officers, forensic scientists, and administration employees, and I fully promote the new RCMP detachment being built exactly where it is going.

However, I don’t really like any of the four designs put forth – although they are better than the first rendition that was submitted.

Frankly, I think that more than seven council members should be making this decision, especially since only five of the seven individuals chose design number four.

I am unsure, but I doubt any of them have any architectural experience. But, at least design number one has an overhang all around it, which would be a great rain barrier.

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I don’t know how it would be coordinated, but I think that current RCMP members should have some input and most certainly Pitt Meadows residents should have a say in what they will be observing on their daily commute especially for the $21.5 million being spent that face it, in effect comes from all of us taxpayers in the province.

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Like Tracy Miyashita said, it will need trees and landscaping. Lots of it I should think.

The budget going forward will have to include cleaning all of those windows and I wonder with the way things are transpiring these days, are those windows bullet-proof?

Patricia Tochkin, Pitt Meadows

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This initial artist’s drawing of the proposed Pitt Meadows RCMP building by KMBR Architects was rejected earlier this year. (Special to The News)