River Belongs To Everyone, Not Just The High-Living Letter Of The Week: From April 21

How is it that no one has objected to the building of a condominium on the north bank of our river for reasons other than the view from the library?

What about the view from the bridges and from the opposite bank and from the east?

The prospect of the river running through a canyon of man-made palisades filled with the more-than-well-to-do is chilling. The present structures along the banks are somewhat mellowed by age and do not crowd the banks in the way that the proposed building would.

Increasing the tax base at the expense of our environment is an altogether too common practice in our society. Let’s be more farsighted than past generations have been.

And let’s remember that the beauty of the river is for all God’s creatures, not just those who can afford fancy digs. Anne J. Kluckhohn Spokane

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