VOLUME 75
ISSUE NUMBER 28
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Sidney council has cheated the
public, residential property buyers
and its own waterfront idcals by
rejecting a high-density waterfront
condominium project, a developer
charged Monday.

By GEORGE LEE
Review Staff Writer
“Because waterfront land is

waterfront land,’ said the man
who developed the Songhces, “the

~ FOUNTAIN OF WATER SPURTS from broken water main *
“on the Keating ridge’ adjacent to the’ Pat: Bay" Highway,.:.

economics just aren’t there for
lower density.”

High-density means. more
access, and plans can actually be
made: more attractive than
medium-density proposals,
Michael Marley of Mahoc Proper-
ties Ltd. said.

But he and architect Vic Davies
weren’t allowed to say that to
council. Clutching plans and dis-
plays they had planned to show

“Wednesday morning. Apparently a private contractor‘
_wonang on installing a sewer Fr synom. for the District of

"Rezoning for a proposed golf
course on Aylard farm was rejected
by North Saanich aldermen Mon-
day, during a meeting of the plan- -

ning and zoning committce.

Ald. Rebecca. Vermeer argued :
the golf course would preserve. the
350-acre site. If the golf course is
not approved, she predicted the -

: _ property would be. subdivided into.

seven 50-acre parcels,

~ Ald, Dee Bailin, who moved the
application be rejected, said .the

‘land must remain agricultural. She

doubted a golf course would. ever
be. returned to agricultural -use.
Mayor Linda Michaluk agreed,
rejecting: claims. by. golf. course
proponents that: golf courses were
used to grow. food in England

during the Second World War, “If

Hitler couldn’t make the Scots

plow. up Glen Eagle, what will:

aldermen, they stood outside shak-
ing their heads as the meeting
continued. .

Council rejected a motion to
reconsider rezoning the land. Now,
the developer must wait six

months if he wants to wy again.
Maricy plans to build condos
north of the Sidney Pier Holdings
Lid.’s property on the shoreline. A
public walkway would be turned
over.to the town, meaning the

“change the (Aylard) g golf course?”

Ald, Maurice Chazottes had not.

made.a decision on the golf course

‘but would not support.a rezoning . -
to C-4, given the range of options”

under that zoning,
-. Vermeer: suggested staff draft a

. special zone to cover conversion of

the 350 acre-Aylard farm property

‘toa golf course but tabled the:

motion pending further submis-
sions from: the applicant. »

Central Saanich hit the water line, causing a flood which: 2
;tied up four. police: .cruisers<and* miles: of- traffic..One:..
three-car pile-up | resulted om the untimely f flood. .

jecis waterfront condos;
ion’t fit official community pian

entire walkway would eventually

lead from north of the port at the
end of Second Strect. to south of
Sidney Hotel.

“Studies show when you builda
walkway, it has to make @ loop,”
Marley said. “You can’t just have
a walkway that ends.” The Mahoc

Properties proposal would allow

that loop.
Under.a high-density zone, Mar-
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d golf course rejected —

~The Patricia: Bay Golf and a
Country. Club. proposed. a mem-

ber-owned golf course on the pre-
sent Aylard farm property. Club

members told council the facility —

would include two-18-hole courses

well as to members.

The committee's rejection of the

rezoning application must be. rati-.
fied by North Saanich council
_ Monday.

Natives appealing decision against food fishing rights

Two members of the Tsawout

band are appealing a Victoria pro-

vincial court decision which found
them guilty of fishing without a
food fishing licence.

Dion Joseph and Fred Unde-
rwood were found guilty of the

“charge and fined $75 each June

28,
The patr were apprehended by

federal fisheries officers while

fishing, Just off Sidney and Coal

islands, a
man said,

The band members are appeal-
ing the decision with a defense

Tsawout band spokes-

based on the Douglas Treaty,
signed on Feb. 11, 1852
bers of the Saanich ‘Tribe and Sir

» by mem:

James Douglas, chief benefactor:

Noise level set for Central

* Noise levels of 6) decibels dure

in a draft noise bylaw being pre-

‘pared for Central Saanich but one

alderman says it’s too low,

— We're not too far out but 1
said
“Ald, Hd Wernblad. “T think it’s
unreasonable to expect industry 10

-come within 10 db of what a heat

pomp emits in an industrial area,”
Council took a step-by-step

~ approach through the draft noise
~,, bylaw July 4, defining day and

nighttime hours, setting a noise
evel and deciding, when the pro-
posed bylaw should take affect and

¢- where noise readings should be

taken. from,

Council decided noise. readings.
tahoe foi
“should be taken from the property
Jine of the suspected offending

Wylaw ciforecnient

property,

~The proposed noise level 18.

“contrary fo snegestions made by

“Hight industrial zone operators,

Ed Gait, of the Central Saanich
Business Association's: noise,

bylaw committee, told council in-

: Saanich industrial zone

mid-June that a: level af 70 db,
cing. daytime hours and §5 db

during hightume hours will be set

during day and nightiime hours,
would be an Acceptable noise

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Rick Monahan and Harry iw
ler of Woodstock Mouldings: had

sugested that a noise level of 60°}

db could be reached by their
operation =~ i measured: at the
border of the industrial area,

Readings taken at Woodstock's .
Reyna Road property line during a
council field trip June 12 range

from 67-80 db but dropped to near
the 6O db vinge where the tidus-
trial park border meets the agricul

tural area border on Verling, Road,

“Let's be fair so that if dhe
noise level isn’t reached) alter the
time period there's somemingy we

“em do aboutit” Hernblad sind,

AW. Wayac Wathins said the
proposed noise levels include @
tolerance: level of three db oso
mdusiry could actully eat 63

nd Oe db respectively,

SORVELVONE OCS. Over (speed
limits) and Vthink the same thing
will happen here.” Watkins sti
"i will probably be closer to.65

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for the Hudson's Bay Company.
The same defence was recently

successt ul in the band’s bid to halt

private company’ s plan. to

nevelop a marina in. Saanichton
Bay, |

That decision rested Ona slate-..

ment inthe Douglas treaty which

said: “Tt as also understood that -
“We are it liberty. to

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_“Efind you're comments curious,

our fisherics as formerly,”

At question in the current case is -

whether the arca in which the
native people. were food fishing is
included in the area protected for

the natives by the treaty, said Barl

Claxton Jr

The natives maintain the Sidney
and Coal islands -area has been
part of the fishery for-100. years. -

) club wants. to put it, town council decided: Monday.

Sidney council voted against rezoning property on James Whyte Boulevard because the Sidney ‘and fy
Peninsula Kiwanis Club's plan wouldn't conform with the recently revised of ficial community plan,

By. GEORGE. LEE
Review Staff Writer

“] just can't see amending the community plan,” Ald, Herb Addison said, a | agree with everything
thavs in the lever, but P don't think (the building): isin. the right place, me

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_ Ald. Ron Kubek voted against rejection, saying the project would tree up other rental thousing in Sidney
helping improve the vacancy rae. “T think this is something we should support.”

And he said the earrent commercial-residential zone won't attract development anyway. “No business pe.
could survive up in that neck of the woods,” Kubek said,

said Mayor Norma Sealey, because Kubek was involved in revising © =

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-} a. pedestrian.

want truck ban

- pedestrian on the roadway,”

‘July:4.:

». that truck traffic’ be eliminated .
“from. Veyaness: Road and the. speed.
» limit reduced. from: 50: kmh to-30. 5
“kmh on Veyaness : ‘between. Stellys. nS
“Crossroad and East Saanich Road. |

“taking place,” the. petition said.

“trucks to pass, residents said.
-and. would be open to the public as. -

Wednesday,
July 12, 1989
Established 1912

[Pedestrians hit

| to yield the right ‘Of way to:
pedestrians at marked ‘cros- {
| swalks after two people were |
run down last week. ons
}. Theresa Wilson, 42, was hit |
by .a vehicle while crossing’
| Beacon Avenue at Third Street,
j about 1:20 p.m. July 5.
| She was treated at Saanich
Peninsula Hospital for. bruises:
fand lacerations before. being
released. :
|. The driver of - the car: was.
charged with failing, to yield to

“About 4:45. pm. ‘July: 4 at
seven- year-old. Sidney. girl. was |

b hit. -by a:passing motorist. in. the}
19700-block. First Street. »
|. The girl, Stephanie. Shanno :
| was taken to Victoria General}
| Hospital.with a broken: eg and}

Veyaness
residenis

--Residents along Veyaness Road
in Central Saanich are afraid to
walk their children to a park just
blocks away from home.

“Trucks have to stop if there is a’
resi-
dent Peter Garland told council

“TT would sure like to walk to ) the
park. We ‘have a wonderful park -

- within. walking: distance but We
can’t get to. it (without driving)," °° =:
-. said resident | David Woodward. of. ee
a 2053-White: Road.

A petition from. residents asked. a

“The. density. of ‘residential ‘ “Pt

“housing ‘along this stretch has
“increased dramatically in’ the last: .

two years and development is still

“Many ‘children: live (in the arca)
and must: walk along. the road: to
get to schools or playgrounds.”
Ruts in the dirt. shoulder of
Veyaness give evidence that the
road is not wide cnough for two

“Tf you get two trucks coming
pedestrians have to jump for the’

“ditch,” Woodward said. .

They proposed that truck traffic
from the ferry bound for the Keat-
ing industrial area be diverted off:

the Pat Bay Highway. at-Mt, New- -

ton Crossroad, onto Central Saa- .

“nich Road to link with Keating
_.Crossroad,

Council referred the matter to its
traffic safety committee for dis-
cussion,

Ald, Wayne Watkins agrécd with
resident’s concerns and said: “It’s »
not uncommon. to designate arcas

off-limits to trucks of a certain size

but we. have to investigate. where :

we’ re moving them lo,”

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‘Low-cost seniors home a a 000 idea
on the wrong streef, council rules —

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. “Everything is Tight about a Kiwanis proposal for low-cost seniors housing - ~ - except where the service | oe

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“The. Ki wanis C inh already has 85 applicants for 20 units, All take in less than the maximum allowable
incomes of $13,000 a year for singles and $15,000 a year for couples, -

And sonie are now spending as much as 70 per cent of their incomes on housing, a letter from the club |
“40 council says, The Kiwanis project would reduce that to as litte as 30 per cent, .
The provincial government has given Kiwanis gonditional approval under its. non- -profit housing -

Rut Kubek maintained. that he had always questioned the zoning in the area,

The five-acre, Cl area is behind the Travelodge, near the Pat Bay. Highway on the south side of James j
White. Come envisions a major development there, tying-all the lots together,» «

But the Kiwanis Club thinks seniors housing is perfect for the arca, says the letter signed by Brian
Drage, housing committee chairman,

The project wanld | ‘enhance ihat anes) thereby encuniraging developments of ihe area asa whole,” Ite :

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