To the editor:

Re: "Letter of the week," Aug. 17.

Former city councillor Peter Ladner wrote to the Courier about replacing tear downs with duplexes or triplexes instead of the mansions that we see being built.

For sure, anything is better than the monster homes that we are seeing. At the rate that they are being built, in five to 10 years time, one will need to choose between one of these homes or an 800 square-foot condo, especially on Vancouver's West Side. Where is the "ecodensity" in that?

The mayor is constantly talking about making Vancouver the "green capital," all this mega building is definitely not the way about it. It seems that on every block on the West Side, there is new construction! Where is the reduce, reuse and recycle in that?

Have you seen the amount of garbage that comes from the destruction and reconstruction of building, not to say the use of non-renewable resources?

If we are going to demolish perfectly good homes, then let's do it so that there is affordable housing, as Mr. Ladner suggests. Why have one huge home and one small home, when you could have two or three similar sized homes?

Teresa Mireault,

Vancouver