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LETTER: With tower proposal, reader urges city to keep beach area in mind

'Our hugely expensive Centennial Park development will all be for naught if there is no sun to make our beach, marina, and the waterfront park, warm and inviting,' says Barrie resident
2020-11-30 Tower proposal
This rendering shows what a four-tower project at Bradford Street and Lakeshore Drive. Image supplied

BarrieToday welcomes letters to the editor at [email protected]. Please include your daytime phone number and address (for verification of authorship, not publication). The following letter is regarding a controversial tower proposal near the city's lakeshore. 
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A very important fact to consider is the sun in the western sky that would be blocked by very tall buildings. 

Our hugely expensive Centennial Park development will all be for naught if there is no sun to make our beach, marina, and the waterfront park, warm and inviting.

Thank goodness this came to our attention before this project got off the ground!
 
Sharon Brown
Barrie

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