small scale industries,

Wednesday, October 2, 1985

THE REVIEW

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By STEWART MACKAY

What ‘is-it? A> multi-million
dollar gift or an environmental
disaster for the Town of Sidney.

1 speak of the proposed Pat
Bay Highway overpass. at
Beacon. Avenue and. related
changes to traffic patterns in the
town.

What the ‘provincial
highways’ ministry has in mind

is perfectly. fine from.a traffic

engineering point. of view. It
will do exactly what it is design-
ed to do —- move ferry traffic at
high speed through the Saanich
Peninsula.

‘But what of its impact-on the
Town of Sidney?

Residents: should’ understand
what lies ahead. A. high-speed
elevated expressway will be con-

structed over the western end of
Beacon Avenue.

The Weiler Avenue exit: from
the highway will be closed. _

A highway ‘overpass ‘will: be
constructed. at: John Road in
North Saanich.

John Road and Macdonald
Park Road traffic will flow onto
Resthaven’ Drive, making

Resthaven a major... arterial
roadway. Beacon Avenue and
Bevan Avenue will become one-
Way Streets.

If residents doubt this, it is all
layed out. in the 1980 Del.Can
Transportation Study — part of
the public record at town hall.

The DeLCan study is a first
class piece of work -— as a traf-
fic engineering study. But from

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It-is unfortunate indeed - that
such .a sophisticated’ piece . of
work should be:so limited in its
perspective..Only four
paragraphs on. page 79 (the last
page) deal with community im-
pact.

Goodness. Enowst we all de-
pend on our cars or on public
transit, but haven’t the traffic
engineers. got it backwards?
Both the DelCan study and the
ministry plans fail to address
seriously the community. impact
of. what. is proposed... Their
equations leave out. the. true
social, environmental» and
energy costs to the community.

Winston. Churchill, speaking
about the -rebuilding “of the
House of Commons. in London
afer World War ‘I, made the
telling observation. that: ‘‘We
shape our. buildings’ and
thereafter our buildings shape
us.”?

Churchill’s. point applies no
less to communities.

As we shape our town we-can
community. with
character that gives pleasure to

‘residents and delight to visitors: :
— a thriving. centre of. com-

merce and ‘recreation and
culture. Just’ as easily, we are
- capable of building a-disjointed
little town. without character —
no different than any of 20,000
other nondescript little towns

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- throughout North America.

We should be aghast at the
high-speed
elevated expressway through the
town. It will have a number of
intolerable consequences.

One: it will stand as‘a massive

physical and: psychological - bar-

the ‘end. of :Beacon
effectively alienating
living west of. the

rier at
Avenue,
residents
highway.
Two: the visual impact and
noise. pollution of an elevated
expressway will be unbearable.
Three: the merchants might
as well give up trying to draw
more ferry traffic into the town.
Sidney council has asked the
highways’. ministry to look. at
the ‘practicality of . depressing

the highway through a cut-an-

elevating . Beacon’ Avenue in

some. workable combination.
That’ solution we could ‘live
with,

Failing that, we should. ask’
the -minister. of highways. to
spend the millions of dollars in-

volved on a more worthy pro-.

ject’ — say at Keating Cross
Road — and leave us with what
we now have. We:can then deal
properly. with our internal traf-
fic requirements as part ofa
cohesive urban design plan.
This is a matter of great con-

sequence to residents of Sidney...

.Only an informed: and aroused

‘citizenry can ensure that traffic

serves .community needs. and
values and not the reverse.

Stewart. Mackay. is a. Sidney

alderman.

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- COMMUNITY. PLAN BY-LAW NO. 487°
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- NOTICE OF PUBLIC. HEARING -

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law. No. 448 by addition Of: the following:

(a) ‘Objective WN ¥. 6 (Agriculture). to: support non- agricultural
use of A.L.R; land only where.the non- vagnicullural, use is ful:
: lye compatible with the adjacent agricultural uses. :

5). Policy. im te (Agriculture) ‘which: would’ permit Tesidential
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“The purpose of this by-law.is to amend Zoning By: law. No. ‘464.
(1983) by the addition ofian CRM 1: Residential Multiple" zones

the size, shape and siting of: such buildings: ‘and’s structures in’
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