Page A2 — Terrace Standard, Wednesday, JUNE 19, 1991

TERRACE — Mayor Jack
Talstra says he hasn’t decided
yet whether to agree to a request
council reconsider the Tribruck
Investments rezoning applica-
tion. oo

Tribruck wanted a property
on Kenney St. rezoned multi-
residential so it could build a
48-unit apartment block.

However, at council’s May 27
meeting aldermen split three-
three on a motion to give third
reading to the zoning amend-
ment, Talstra did’ ‘not ‘vote
because his home is adjacent to
the property Tribruck wanted
rezoned.

Because a tie is considered to
be a negative vote, the rezoning
was defeated.

Last week aldermen Danny
Sheridan, Bob Cooper and Dar-
ryl Laurent signed a fetter to
Talstra asking him to invoke his
powers under a section of the
Muncipal Act.

_ That section allows a mayor
to return a matter to council at

from front

rezoning relook.

any time within one month after

its adoption. ‘
Speaking on the weekend,

Talstra said- he would have to

determine whether he could in’

fact bring back. this particular
jtem, ;

That section could indicate a
mayor can ask for reconsidera-
tion only if a by-law or mation
has been passed. In this case,
the zoning by-law was defeated.

In the past, Talstra said,
items had normally been recall-
ed only when members of coun-
cil, after giving the matter fur-
ther thought, had indicated they
wanted to change their vote.

In the letter, the trio say the
reason for the request is council
members were not aware, at the
time of the vote, of a decline in
the city's vacancy rate as
calculated by the Canada Mar-
tgage and Housing Corpora-
tion’s April survey of rental ac-
commodation in the city.

Sheridan, Cooper and

- Laurent all denied the request

was in any way connected to the

No conflict, says

proposal, a drawing of what it
looked like or where the
building would sit on the site.

'**] didn’t have a clue what he
wanted to da,” Takhar explain-
ed.

The Tribruck Kenney St. pro-
posal was’ ‘even worse,”’ said
Takhar, because no represen-
tative of the company appeared
before council to ‘explain its
plans or to answer aldermen’s
questions.

Takhar said he favours apart-
ment construction but that it’s

- up to developers to ‘‘go out and

sell (the project) to the
neighbours and to council.”
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. Meanwhile, ,most, members
of; council, aren't, saying much.
about alderman Mo Takhar’s
situation.

Danny Sheridan declined to
comment and said he won't
raise the matter at a council
meeting. ‘I don’t see it as my
role to be policing other
aldermen,”’ he explained.

“When I feel I’m in a con-
flict, | remove myself from the
table or from the room,’’ he
said, adding “Mr, Takhar has
to make his own decisions.”*

Also declining to comment,
Darryl Laurent said “'] don’t
know the whole situation.”’ He
also suggested Takhar’s past
performance as an aldermen
should allaw him to address the
matter first.

Describing the issue as ‘'a

“tempest in a teapot’, Ruth
Hallock recalled Takhar. telling

Correction

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on Skeena Cellulose’s planting
plans for this year indicated
winter greenhouses losses had
caused the company to cut back
its program by 500,000 trees.
«Company. forestry technician
Erika Nicholson says in fact on-
ly 100,000 seedlings were lost.

She said the overall half million

reduction in planting from 1990
was because a grealer number
of sites were being left to

regenerate nalurally this year, =

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Roger Bourgoin and Joe
Malinkowski aren’t members of .

the Road Runners Motorcycle
Club as indicated
photograph last week.

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possibility Takhar might have

been in a conflict of interest by.

voting on the application when

a company in which he has an -

interest. owns an apartment

- building in the city.

Laurent suggested the new in-

formation on vacancy rates now

available to council might well
persuade one or more of . the
dissenting aldermen — Ruth
Hallock, Rick King and Mo
Takhar — to change their vote.
King, however, says he won't
be one of them. While agreeing
there was an accommodation
shortage, he queried whether
the proposed apartment
development would meet ihe
real needs of the community.
With rents likely to be
$600-$700 a month, ‘That

won’t help those on limited in- -

comes,'’ he pointed out.
“We're not looking at the
whole story.”’ .

Repeating his opposition to.

‘panic development”, King
said “Things have to be thought
out a little more clearly.”’

Takhar

her he owned an apartment
block. Describing him as “a
man of the highest integrity’,
she said there was no conflict of
interest in her view. _
Rick King said he had not had
an opportunity to talk to
Takhar about the matter and
did not want to comment until
then. “It's an unfortunate
thing,” he said but hoped
Takhar ‘made his decision to
vote: based on the issues sur-
rounding each rezoning vote.

Mayor Jack Talstra has |

already said the question of
conflict is one that each alder-
man has to individually deter-
mine.

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