Dear Editor:
With this summer’s wildfires coming so quickly on the heels of flooding in the Okanagan, it does make me wonder just how safe the proposed Banks Development complex would be.
The land, as we know is bowl-shaped with the lower lip of the bowl facing the lake.
For those who have lived anywhere near the lake, it is well known that wind gusts whip up out of nowhere regularly.
With 404 units (yes, the number has increased again) of wood-framed construction in such a small space with still only one way in or out, the recipe for severe disaster would be tremendous.
All it could take is a cigarette butt carelessly discarded from a car window and wind gusts from the lake to whip a firestorm right through the 404-unit bowl and up the sagebrush to all neighbouring houses above and beyond.
No ladder-truck can stop that.
This is not scare tactics — it is bringing forward a real possibility.
Are the mayor and council really ready to be responsible for an event such as that?
Donna Wahl
Summerland