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Douglas Todd: In South Delta, at least, you can fight city hall — and stop highrises

“You vote yes for towers, we vote no to you,” read one sign held up by residents of Tsawwassen before a highrise proposal was rejected by council. Last week, the mayor, seeking reelection this fall, said, 'We believe in gentle, community-led growth.'

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After Mark Schoeffel drove into downtown Vancouver last week for an appointment, he said, “You couldn’t get me home quick enough.”

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Vancouver’s tightly squeezed highrises overwhelmed him. He became eager to return to his suburban home in Tsawwassen, “Where you don’t see any towers.”

For the time being, that’s the way Schoeffel and a dogged band of citizens are keeping their quiet beachside community of Tsawwassen, 25 kilometres south of Vancouver. It’s home to about 20,000 people.

In a feat almost unheard of in recent years in Metro Vancouver, Schoeffel, Bev Yaworski  and other citizens of South Delta, which has a tradition of neighbourhood activism, teamed up last year to defeat a developer’s effort to bring four condo towers to Tsawwassen Town Centre mall.

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