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Infractions of an agreement
which allowed parking on a lot at
the end of James Island Road are
sufficient reason to cancel the
agreement, four nearby residents
told council April 21.

Residents presented a detailed
report of infractions on the lot,
used for parking by the owner and
developer of James Island, Pacific
Parkland Properties.

“However Pacific Parkland man-
aging director Reid Topp says the
company has not violated the
agreement. Many of the problems
are not caused by Pacific Parkland
Staff, he said.

According to the residents, prob-
lems started in March 1991 when
Management of Pacific Parkland
Properties changed.

Problems cited by residents
include mechanical noise, dust,
vehicle exhaust, loud voices, rock
music and slamming doors.

Between July 20 and Oct. 8,
1991, residents compiled a list of
54 violations of the parking lot
agreement. The most common
complaint was exceeding the limit
of 30 vehicles in the lot, residents
said.

Topp said Pacific Parkland had
arranged for overflow parking at
the Waddling Dog last summer.

“We have a limit of 30 people,”
he said. Tags are issued to Pacific
Parkland employees.

However Topp said the parking
area also attracts other people,
including visitors to nearby resi-
dences. There are also people
using the dock, plus kayakers on
the waterfront, he said.

To date, Pacific Parkland has
been unwilling to tow unauthor-
ized vehicles off the lot.

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“We tried locking the gates and
they backed up into them and
broke the gates, so we gave up
trying to keep it locked.”

Other problems cited by resi-
dents include noise from the
nearby wharf, loud boat engines
and one person living in a camper
on the site for a week.

They complained no action was
taken by council or staff to resolve
the problems and that a meeting
on the issue, scheduled for Dec.
12, was not arranged.

“With this flagrant abuse of an
agreement, it’s reason for the
agreement to be annulled,” Ald.
Clarence Bolt said, backing resi-
dents’ demands that parking on
the residentially-zoned property
be stopped.

However Ald. Arlene Box said
council should concentrate on
enforcing the existing agreement.

Given that the use of the lot for

parking has a long-standing his-.

tory in the area, she said a costly
court battle would be required to
remove parking from the lot.

Council could lose the court
case and residents would then have
no agreement to control parking
on the site, Mayor Ted Jones noted.

Council agreed to get a legal
opinion on whether the parking
agreement can be terminated
because of the infractions cited by
residents.

Council also asked for a legal
opinion on the possibility of get-
ting an injunction to enforce the
existing agreement.

Box said the municipality had
already paid two lawyers $800 to
review the parking issue in the
past. She hoped residents will not
be disappointed if another review

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A spade was the weapon used by
a vandal or vandals to do thou-
sands of dollars of damage to
Ardmore Golf Course sometime
Saturday night.

Staff arrived for work at 7 a.m.
Sunday morning to discover the

computerized control boxes for the

sprinkler system smashed and
some of the pump assembly dam-
aged.

The pumps had been turned on
and were overheated but fortun-
ately had not seized, director
Wally du Temple said.

In addition, a square-headed
shovel was used to dig up the first
green and part of the eighth green.
A fence on the ninth hole was
knocked down, du Temple said.

“This is like malicious dam-
age.”

He estimated it.will be four
months before the greens recover
and much of the sprinkler system’s
pumps and controls will have to be
replaced.

“Tt’s in the thousands of dollars
for sure,” he remarked.

EXAMINING THE DAMAGE
done to the Ardmore Golf
course sprinkler system is
director Wally du Temple.

sland parking

does not produce a solution.

Topp said only a few Pacific
Parkland vehicles now park on the
lot.

In addition, he says he sends a
crew every two weeks to clean up
litter scattered over the lot, much
of which is from a nearby fastfood
restaurant.

“I'm certainly not aware of any
infractions,” Topp said. “I don’t
know what more we can do.”

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
ZONING BY-LAW NO. 724

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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that all persons who believe their
interest in property may be affected by By-Law No. 724, being
“District of North Saanich Zoning By-Law No. 464 (1983), Amend-
ment By-Law (1992) No. 4”, will be afforded an opportunity to be
heard or to present written'submissions at a PUBLIC HEARING to
be held in the Council Chambers Municipal Hall, 1620 Mills Road,
North Saanich, B.C. on Tuesday, May 19, 1992 at 7:30 PM.

The purpose of Zoning By-Law No. 724 is to re-zone the area
described as Lot A, Section 19, Range 1 West, North Saanich
District, Plan 20807 (1075 Clayton Road) from the A-1 Rural Zone to
the R-3 Residential Zone. This re-zoning, if approved, would permit
a minimum lot size of 4000 square metres (0.99 acre). The present
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Monday to Friday, between May 6, 1992 and May 19,1992 inclusive,
excluding holidays. Joan E. Schill
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