This land should never have been clear cut. It is a scar on the landscape and an environmental travesty. To now allow a gravel pit to exist in a residential neighbourhood with the potential for the unprecedented disturbance of constant gravel truck traffic and the noise of extracting the gravel will be the ruination of the Kawkawa Lake area and indeed, of our town. We need to be a 'destination' for tourism, not just a gas and food stop, for Hope and District to flourish. This gravel pit expansion and ruination of our natural beauty will be the death knell for Hope.