I appreciate the stories in the paper about the situation of suites in Surrey and how people in the Clayton Heights area are upset about the situation there.
I truly understand where they are at, but this has been a long-time problem with the city.
I live in the Newton area and we have mini hotels being built. Does the city do anything? No. They allowed this mess to start years ago with allowing so many square feet on a lot. What they did not do is state the maximum the house size should be. So what we have now are homes 2,500 square feet per floor.
There is a home being built right now on the corner of 68 Avenue and 130 Street and it is a full three storeys high. This will hold three families or more. There is no garage out front they will park on a street that only has parking on one side. Welcome to my nightmare.
Surrey has brought this on upon themselves. They have let groups of people build monster homes with multiple suites and ignored the complaints, so now they have decided to allow building smaller homes but with a coach house.
Do they not get it? City of Surrey – get your act together for the people that live in single-family homes. We are the ones getting screwed. We are the ones picking up the garbage from all the suites, we have no parking for our own friends who want to visit. We subsidize the multiple people who attend schools.
They call Surrey the City of Parks. Not likely. It should be changed to Surrey the City of Suites.
L. Walters, Surrey