Crime and Pollution

Crime and Pollution

The growth rate is 1%,

That means 1% more crime, traffic, pollution, demand on services, etc...

Unless, there are other factors that affect those numbers as well.

Crime has been steadily dropping in Canada since the early 90's, a 1% increase is unlikely under those conditions, but even if it did happen we would still have the lowest crime rate of a community over 20,000 people in the region.

Traffic volume is likely to increase by almost 1%, some will go to buses and some will be seniors with different traffic patterns, but will the road improvements add more than 1% capacity? Widening the Keith Rd bridge alone will add 50% capacity to the Mountain Hwy corridor.

More pollution? Since the pollution on the North Shore is largely from Industry, that won't change. As for the pollution derrived from buildings (the 2nd highest source), multi family dwellings are way more efficient than single family, and towers, even though I don't generally support them, I must admit that they are far more efficient than single family. Traffic generated pollution is steadily decreasing due to technological upgrades which is why Aircare is being scrapped.

"I have lived in Lynn Valley for 20 years and the crime rate has at least doubled."

No. A quick google search produced the DNV crime rate from 2001 at 59, 2012 was at 41.