Email Template to demand removal of BC Place giant screens

Send an email to demand the removal of the three giant screens at BC Place. Just copy-paste the following text and modify as desired:

EMAIL ADDRESSES:

rich.coleman.mla@leg.bc.ca, mary.mcneil.mla@leg.bc.ca, mayor@langleycity.ca, jody.robertson@ecomm911.ca, frank.palmer@ddbcanada.com, suzanne@suzanneanton.ca, mballingall@bigwhite.com, tbreining@breininggroup.com, jenness_murray@bcit.ca, john.horning@interfor.com, alanlowe@shaw.ca, tlyons@northgateminerals.com, smclaughlin@grousemountain.com, don@zurowski.bc.ca, dhayden@bcpavco.com, jharding@bcpavco.com, hcrosley@bcpavco.com, kdelisser@bcpavco.com, gramsay@bcpavco.com, adrian.dix.mla@leg.bc.ca, s.chandraherbert.mla@leg.bc.ca, matthewtoner@gmail.com, clrmeggs@vancouver.ca, penny.ballem@vancouver.ca, constance.barnes@vancouver.ca, take.the.giant.screen.down.now@gmail.com

SUBJECT:
Families can't bear continued assault of flashing giant billboards into their homes

MESSAGE BODY:

To: BC Pavilion Corp Directors and Managers
To: Rich Coleman, Minister responsible for BC PavCo
To: MLA Mary McNeil, Vancouver-False Creek
Cc: Adrian Dix, Opposition leader
Cc: Spencer Chandra Herbert, PavCo opposition critic
Cc: Matt Toner, Opposition nominee Vancouver-False Creek
Cc: Geoff Meggs, Vancouver City Councillor
Cc: Dr Penny Ballem, Vancouver City Manager
Cc: Constance Barnes, City Park Commissioner

BC Pavilion Corp Directors and Managers,
Minister Rich Coleman,

Over a year ago the BC Pavilion Corp (PavCo) installed three giant outdoor video billboards at BC Place in very close proximity to, and directly facing, Vancouver's densest group of glass residential buildings, thereby gravely affecting hundreds of families who previously lived peacefully in their homes. Despite repeated calls from neighbourhood residents that the three flashing screens be removed, PavCo has done little to address this continued assault on the well-being of these families.

Local residents have recently expressed to you how PavCo's operational changes to the screens - mild adjustments to the brightness and operating hours - have done nothing to address their primary concern, specifically:

It is unacceptable that an enormous group of families be made to suffer in their homes - held captive to the blight of these giant flashing screens within their primary place of residence (where some raise their children and others simply seek respite) - so that PavCo can continue to earn advertising revenues. Surely there is a more responsible way to achieve PavCo's goals?

As you may know, following PavCo's operational changes to the screens, Mayor Gregor Robertson and all ten City Councillors unanimously demonstrated their on-going grave concerns for residents' well-being in early 2012 and requested that PavCo remove the screens in compliance with Vancouver city bylaws. Recall that the screens in question are ten times the size deemed appropriate under the city bylaw, the applicable standard for determining acceptable conditions of liveability within this community. Many other concerned community leaders and officials who have been alarmed by PavCo's actions have also insisted that the screens facing families' homes be taken down. These include MLA Spencer Chandra Herbert, City Park Commissioner Constance Barnes, as well as the Co-Chairs of the False Creek Residents Association, to name a few.

Please also count my voice amongst the growing number of citizens and officials who are shocked at PavCo's continued operation of the three giant video screens outside BC Place. Accordingly, I ask that you sincerely reconsider the mistakes of the previous PavCo leadership and immediately begin the responsible action of planning for the removal of these intolerable screens. Families can't be made to bear the continued assault of these flashing giant billboards any longer.

Sincerely,

Concerned BC resident