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At the Eighth Annual meeting
tonight the “Friends of John Dean
Park” will be asked to decide if
they are willing to continue to
keep the park clean of garbage,

close the gate every night arid look-

after all dead wood and trails.

An annual budget of $4,000 per
year appears to be plenty with a
small contract to have someone
come in regularly to clean the
picnic site, parking lot and toilets.
- CRD Parks people certainly
won't do the job any cheaper,
partly because they have to drive
~30 km to get here, but also because
they don’t get our usual level of
public participation.

The RCMP has always patrolled

the access road, parking lot and.

radar towers and no change is
necessary.

Anyone interested in the future
of John Dean Park is urged to
attend the meeting tonight (Nov. 4)
at 7:30 p.m. in the pavilion of the
Quarantine Station, 8801 East
Saanich Road.

Edo Nyland

North Saanich

sink the bridge
before it swims

Editor:

The proposed Moses Point-
Cherry Point bridge may be a
dream to the developers, but it will
be a nightmare to North Saanich,
Sidney, and other Peninsula resi-
dents.

My points are: Noise pollution:
Raised in Burnaby, I heard a
four-lane highway destroy the
environment with a constant din of
noise 24 hours a day. Even though

_the freeway was three-quarters of a
mile away in a lower area and a hill
separated us, the noise is like a
radio humming and it never goes
away.

Engine retarder brakes, whining
tires, honking horns, and noisy
exhaust systems are not going to
enhance anybody’s lifestyle.

Visual pollution: Can you pic-
ture a ghastly orange metal mon-
strosity and a four-lane freeway
being visual enhancements of a
very beautiful and pristine area?

The rural setting of North Saa-
nich will forever be ruined.

Physical pollution: Worst of all,
the delicate balance of Saanich
Inlet will be upset. Perhaps the
experts amongst your readers will
write to you further on this sub-
ject. Just as disconcerting is the
destruction of even more of the
valuable rural land by the feeder
roads.

Increased traffic: The $110 mil-
lion “saved” from the Malahat
improvements will have to be used
to improve the Pat Bay Highway
for the extra traffic anyway. As for
the Malahat, it will still be in
existence and still need improve-
ment.

Do the residents of the Penin-
sula really want to inherit part of
the Colwood crawl?

Process: None of us should trust
the process being followed by the
group promoting this bridge.

They are trying to use as lever-
age the idea that cash-strapped
senior governments will welcome
them with open arms. If they get
that support, they will bulldoze
their way over local municipalities
and the local population.

There is a manipulative and
insincere tone to their reference to
the issue of safety on the Malahat.
What about safety on the Pat Bay
highway?

Their vacillation between the
words “miles” and “kilometres”
in selling the program is sneaky.

For instance, (Bridging the Inlet,
Victoria Weeklies, Oct. 28), “Two
and a half miles of four-lane
highway on either side of the
bridge’” as compared with “...
shorten the tip into Victoria by 11
kilometres.”

An honest comparison would
have been: five miles of four-lane
highway plus 2.5 miles of bridge
equals 7.5 miles to save 6.8 miles.

Or: Eight kilometres of four-
lane highway plus four kilometres
of bridge equals 12 kilometres to
save 11 kilometres.

The developers state the four-
lane highway will be “... eight feet
below grade with an additional
four-foot landscaped shoulder to
screen out traffic noise from resi-
dents living along the route.”

How can anyone trust a state-
ment like that when the (provided)
picture of the bridge has the four-
lane highway going over the top of
Lands End Road?

I, for one, am prepared to work
with anyone wanting to organize
and deflate this potential night-
mare.

Most of the response so far
appears to be the bridge idea won't
swim. I think that way as well but
have the feeling this thing will
come back up for air quite a few
times to haunt us before it finally
sinks for good.

Dave Byron

North Saanich

Protect beach
for the public

Editor:

I understand permission is being
sought to erect a berm, or wharf,
on the foreshore fronting the Hill
property next to the easement to
the beach on Setchell Road. This
is a public thoroughfare.

I do not understand how a few of
the “haves” in this world can take
over part of a public beach from
others, some of whom are the
“have-nots,” and convert it for
their private use.

Berms alter the currents and
drifts along the shore, even with
rocks set apart. I don’t know how
far apart a load of rocks can be that
will let water filter through in a
way that will keep the natural
beach unchanged.

Is it not the right of the public to
pass along below a high tide
mark? If the berm does not have a
pass-through marked “public
access”’ I consider it to fall into the
category of public land.

It annoys me that landowners
along this shore have also built

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patios. Bamacles grow up them to
heights of over a foot.

Are we to believe these hin-
drances to passage along the beach
are built above high tide? Or are
barnacles taking over dry land?

If a berm or wharf is allowed,
what is to stop any other water-
front landholder from trying to do
the same just so he/she can tie up
his/her yacht?

I am opposed, and hope this
wrecking and altering of the fore-
shore is stopped immediately, for
the sake of the seabed, the natural
ecology, and for those of us who
do not “own” waterfront, but like
to walk along without being turned
back by people’s encroaching con-
structions.

Stephanie Quainton Steel

North Saanich

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