Dear Editor:
This letter is written in response to the recent Town of Osoyoos Downtown Sidewalk Survey.
Before you start this survey, why not ask us, the residents of this community, if we want to cater to tourists for three months out of 12 or 25 per cent of the year?
There is more to this town than businesses catering to them 25 per cent of the time. What about the other 75 per cent of the time over the remaining nine months of the year?
We pay taxes 12 months of the year.
On this survey, you are asking the tourists for their input. I have to ask why? They’ll say yes and get in their car and drive away after one or two weeks of staying in Osoyoos and leave us with this extra expense. Am I missing something here? I would also like to ask why doesn’t the town study the possibility of having the highway bypass Main Street?
I have lived in this community for 49 years and I think these are fair questions.
Dale Hopkins
Osoyoos, B.C.
