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The announcement came as
good news to members of the
Association for the Protection of
Rural Central Saanich, a citizens’
group dedicated to preserving
farmland.

Association chairman Bill
Ashwell was pleased “council has
finally listened to the resident’s
concems,”

~ We won the battle but not the
war because council still hasn’t
shown a lot of respect for ALR
land,” Ashwell said after the
meeting.

Cullis said he respects the land
commission and feels the contents
of the commission’s letter of com-
ment on the draft plan left no room
for discussion.

~ We certainly got a strong indi-
cation from residents who
attended the (information meet-
ings) that they aren’t in favor of

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clear that they’re making a state-
ment that they are caretakers of the
ALR and they have responded to
considerable public pressure that
came from within Central Saa-
nich,” Cullis said.

He said the commission’s posi-
tion “clearly doesn’t leave any
room for discussion of removal of
ALR land for non-agricultural
purposes.

~The land commission left itself
no room to manoeuvre,” Cullis
said.

Cullis said the second draft will
“have a harder look at residential
estate property south of Bren-
twood Bay and east of West Saa-
nich Road down as far as Old West
Saanich Road.”

Cullis said council has had a
good relationship with the land
commission and in 1984 won a
precedent-setting case when Cen-
tral Saanich successfully appealed
a commission decision.

Since then discussions for pro-
viding community needs such as

schools and hospitals have been.
good, Cullis said.

“We have to respect (the letter). &

The commission is certainly
within its mandate,” Cullis said.
“It’s unfortunate their resolution
and letter were such that they
precluded further discussion of the
whole issue, or even specific par-
cels of land.”

Ashwell said: ““A lot of com-
munity energy and perhaps
expenses have been wasted
because of the extreme point of
view expressed in the first draft.”

Ashwell said it’s taken five &

months to prove to council that’s
what the people really want. He’s
counting from a September ques-
tionnaire in which about 50 per
cent of respondents favored no
growth.

“I'm happy council respected
the wishes of the people but I’m
sorry it took so long,’? Ashwell
said. “We’re impressed by the
participation the people of Central
Saanich have expressed.”

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community plan.

Oaks
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protest

Sign-posted trees are the latest
evidence of opposition to Central
Saanich’s draft official commun-
ity plan, says Mayor Ron Cullis.

Monday Cullis found three
marked trees on Mt. Newton
Crossroad. Each tree carried a sign
suggesting people contact the
mayor or MLA to save the tree
from the saw.

Cullis said no one has contacted
him on the issue. He does not
know who placed the signs on the
trees but suspects the signs reflect
fears that Mt. Newton Crossroad
may be upgraded as a major
east-west arterial road for Central
Saanich. :

Mixed residential housing lead-
ing to increased population in the
area was proposed in the first draft
of the Official Community Plan.

The draft plan proposed Mt.
Newton Crossroad as a major road
to serve the area. An alternative
was using part of Mt. Newton and
developing another road to the
south, Cullis said.

“It’s a sign of some concern
that the road is going to be mas-
sively changed.”

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