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NATURIST ACTION COMMITTEE
ACTION ALERT
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http://www.naturistsociety.com/NAC/
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DATE : September 25, 2004
SUBJECT: Wreck Beach, British Columbia
TO : All naturists
Dear Naturist,
The threat to the character and possible future existence of Wreck
Beach
has reached a point of crisis. In close cooperation with the Wreck
Beach
Preservation Society (WBPS), the Naturist Action Committee (NAC) is
requesting your immediate participation in a grass roots battle to
preserve Wreck Beach.
NAC is asking you to send e-mail and postal correspondence to regional
authorities who control the fate of Wreck Beach. Read on for details.
BACKGROUND
Wreck Beach in Vancouver, B.C., Canada, is one of the most beautiful
clothing-optional beaches in the world. It wraps nearly 8 km. around
the
Point Grey peninsula and is framed by spectacular forested cliffs.
Above
those cliffs lies the campus of the University of British Columbia
(UBC).
Presently the pristine forested cliffs above the beach hide any
university buildings from view, giving beachgoers a natural backdrop
that
approaches wilderness, despite close proximity to the city. This
precious
heritage view greeted Captain George Vancouver centuries ago and is
still
enjoyed by boaters and people who visit the tidal flats today.
For years, UBC campus development has threatened the natural character
of
the adjacent foreshore and cliffs. But this year University officials
literally went "over the top" when they began construction of the first
of four intended 20-storey Marine Residence student towers, only
hundreds
of feet from the cliff edge, overlooking the most popular area of the
beach.
Started with virtually no public consultation, the construction
planning
has triggered a public outcry, with the WBPS pointing to specific
environmental impacts. Those include:
1) inevitable bird strikes on tall buildings
2) the potential for cliff erosion and the beach-threatening
solutions that will surely be proposed to protect the new
construction from the effect of such erosion.
More than any other issue, the potential loss of the wilderness-like
setting has captured the attention of naturists and nature lovers from
around the world. Simply put, the construction of towers looming over
the
beach would forever change the character of Wreck Beach.
The Wreck Beach Preservation Society is asking the official stewards of
the beach, the Greater Vancouver Regional District (GVRD) and other
regional authorities to protect the public park from this irreparable
loss. The concerns of the Wreck Beach Preservation Society are shared
by
many. As this NAC Action Alert is being released, nearly 20,000
petition
signatures have been collected as validation of the WBPS position.
NAC ASKS ALL CONCERNED INDIVIDUALS TO CONTACT THE FOLLOWING AUTHORITIES
Send correspondence to as many as possible. Send postal mail, e-mail -
or
BOTH! So that the Wreck Beach Preservation Society may have a record of
your contact, please send a copy of each e-mailed letter to:
judyw@wreckbeach.org
1) GVRD-UBC JOINT COMMITTEE
c/o Paulette Vetleson,
Corporate Secretary to the Joint GVRD-UBC Committee
4330 Kingsway,
Burnaby, B.C. CANADA V5H 4G8
paulette.vetleson@gvrd.bc.ca
2) GVRD-UBC JOINT COMMITTEE
c/o Kristian Nichols, GVRD
Electoral A Administrator and Planner,
Policy and Planning Department,
4330 Kingsway,
Burnaby, B.C. CANADA-V5H 4G8
kristian.nichols@gvrd.bc.ca
3) INDIVIDUAL MEMBERS of the JOIN
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