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Bylaws favour builders

Surrey - The Editor, With Linda Hepner receiving almost 50 per cent of her campaign contributions from developers, it's not hard to figure out who she and her people in city hall are going to favour.

Early noise curfew bylaws take a backseat when it comes to construction noise complaints in residential neighbourhoods. These chronic violators can break the law day after week after month and nothing is done about it. The city's will to enforce the law on them is not there and I've witnessed it firsthand.Surrey's bylaws department seems more interested in getting money out of ordinary folks for things like parking a car on a street somewhere at 3 a.m. and very important things like harassing pet owners for licences.Our public servants/officials have become people who want authority but avoid responsibility - especially when it comes to their own pockets.Jackson NemSurrey