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BRENTWOOD GOLF COURSE

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facilities that currently sit on Cen-
tral Saanich farmland, she said.

But council has taken a “hyster-
ical”’ approach to considering the
Brentwood Lakes Golf Course for
141-acres of ALR farmland prop-
erty, she said.

Ald. Ian Cameron said it didn’t
iiatter how many people spoke for
or against the golf course proposal
at the public hearing.

It’s the quality of the argument
that counts, not the numbers
game,” he said.

The Official Community Plan
discourages building on inland

{ wetland farmland areas like Maber
Flats and that’s one good reason
for him to help to kill the proposal,
Cameron said.

Ald. Bruce Tobin and Ald. Clar-

ence Bolt agreed that the OCP.

should be the guiding principle in
deciding the matter.
But Box said 68 per cent of

respondents to a questionnaire’

used to help draft the OCP favored
limited use of ALR farmland for
golf courses.

Also, Maber Flats is not a pro-
vincially-sanctioned inland wet-

COUVELIER

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of your position in cabinet?”

Couvelier replied: “Let me put
you in my shoes. I asked for the
privilege of representing the Social
Credit party when seeking office. I
have an obligation to that institu-
-tion as an MLA and as long as I’m
in cabinet I cannot, with honor,
criticize the government in public.

“If 1’m uncomfortable, the thing
to do is resign.” ;

That response triggered another
tough question: ““Who are you
most responsible to?”

Couvelier said: “I’d say my
conscience. In cabinet, the prem-
ier, if my conscience will allow it.
As an MLA, it’s my constituents.”

Couvelier does have his sights
set on the next election in Saanich
North and The Islands, the Penin-
sula’s new constituency, but is
worried.

“I know I’ve got a tough battle
in this riding,” he said. “I don’t
want to see a big debate amongst
the party because one (faction)
will walk out and V’ll need them to
win the next election.”

He recognized that both the
Liberal and New Democrat candi-
dates have strong support and said:
“We have to convince the voters
that we’re not a tired party.”

land area and neither is it prime
agricultural land, she added.

Cameron and Tobin both said
they weren’t eroding the demo-
cratic process and their voting
reflected the wishes of the people
who voted them into office.

An anu-development stance and
the desire to preserve farmland
was the focal point of his election
campaign, Cameron said.

“Golf courses are development.
If you're against development,
you re against it period,” he said.

Tobin said the use of farmland
for golf courses was a ‘‘huge

central issue”” in last fall’s munici-
pal elections.

And the 2,300 people who voted
for him Novy. 17 must have been
aware of where he stood on the
Brentwood Lakes Golf Course
controversy, he said.

His stance was strongly
influenced by the fact that Maber
Flats -is “some of the best farm-
land in all of Canada,” he said.

However, if council won’t use
the Jan. 10 public hearing as a true
gauge of public sentiment, then it
should hold a referendum on the
issue, Box said.

Highway meeting in North Saanich Monday
as call for improvement goes to AVIM

The public is invited to a meet-
ing of a North Saanich council
committee with ministry of high-
ways planning staff and B.C. Fer-
ries personnel Monday night at the
municipal hall on Mills Road.

Meanwhile, the Town of Sidney
has spearheaded a drive to
improve the “apparent lack of
basic planning principles” by the
Ministry of Transportation and
Highways.

At the North Saanich meeting,
highway planners are expected to
address concerns about planned
improvements to the Lands End-
Tryon Road area, just south of the
Swartz Bay ferry terminal.

It is also hoped that ferry spo-
kesmen will shed some light on
the proposed upgrading and
expansion of the ferry terminal’s
parking area.

The Curteis Point Community
Association is pleased with the
ministry’s change of heart on its
Altemative K design but does not
agree with a new proposal because
of noise and tree-loss considera-
tions.

Anne Richens, of the associa-
tion, asked council to pursue a
land use study and the “incongru-
ous mix of proposed intersections
and interchanges.”

Richens also said: “It should be
made clear that the ferry corpora-
tion should be expected to solve its

problems within its own boundar-
ies.”

Meanwhile, Sidney unanimous-
ly approved a resolution council is
forwarding to the Association of
Vancouver Island Municipalities
for adoption consideration at its
meeting next week,

Ald. John Calder said the reso-
lution was drafted as a result of a
tri-municipal meeting recently
where: “At the end of discussion
we had concems about the process
used by the ministry, where differ-
ent communities were left out in
isolation.”

The resolution asks that the
ministry “establish collective dia-
logue with the municipalities bor-
dering the highway and that adja-
cent municipalities not be held in
isolation from one another.”

Further, it asks that the ministry
“establish stronger guidelines for
public input and consultation, and
that public meetings relative to
highway improvement be held
under the direction of ministry
Staff so as to remain non-partisan
and avoid political debate.”

Calder said it: “Expressed our
concems in a diplomatic manner”
and recommended it be faxed to
AVIM by a Monday deadline to be
placed on the agenda.

Both North Saanich and Central
Saanich councils are to receive a
copy of the resolution.

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