Why expropriation by the CRD?

The CRD parks board is deter-
mined it will own farmers’ lands at

Island View Beach, no matter who |

is hurt.

by Ray Lamont,
Former Central Saanich
alderman .

Before expropriation procedure,
_ the parks board must negotiate
with the farmers; so said the

back claiming it did what it was
told, but the farmers refused.

The CRD is.now in a legal
position to expropriate the land. for
who knows. what: price.

This is a well planned political
manoeuvre:

The third land owner, not a
farmer, bordering Lamont Road

and the 62-acre Island View
Regional Park, I am told will give’

boat ramp at the end of Island
View. Road. This was another
planned municipal and parks
board squeeze to pul pressure on
the two farmers in the middle who
offer their lands adjacent to the

beach to taxpayers who own a

recreational vehicle.

I attended a public hearing of
land. acquisition at Island View
called by the CRD parks board at

_ TheReview

only member of the CRD board in
nilendauee to hear first hand from

the taxpayers was Ald. Watkins of |
Central Saanich. Why? Because -

someone had to chair the mecting.

~ When asked why no other mem-
ber was there, his answer was he
would make his report to the

board. In other words, the board ,

members were content to hear
what Watkins wanted them to hear
and no-more. This shows an alti-
tude of, ‘Don’t confuse me with
facts — my mind is made up!”

Wednesday, September 20, 1989 ~— AI0

them something,

Having a life-long interest in
this area, | asked for and received
an enjoyable one-hour mecting
with Mayor Susan Brice of Oak
Bay, the chairman of the CRD
board, to discuss the Island View

Beach issue and the board mem- °

bers lack of interest in the public
hearing. She was very courtcous
and said she would take my report
under advisement and discuss it
with chairman Watkins of the
regional parks board.

government of BC, approximately 30 acres of land t© the Royal Oak Inn on June 13. Why is it the voice of the _-I must now say it was all a waste let
The parks board did just that by his foreshore to the park, if the Total attendance was 175 persons, taxpayer ig not called for by these of my time by all accounts, ag
offering by mail a price so low for parks board can persuade Central recorded. people, except at election time? This self-important attitude was &
their tract of lands behind the — Saanich council to zone the Island Every person there said by And we pay their wages by June never toleratcd by the early coun- ue
beach, the two farmers were - View Ridge to residential so he voice, show of hand, or written 30, through our taxes. cils of Central Saanich. | ha
insulted and refused the offer — — can subdivide that portion: of his report to leave the beach alone, — AS far as I know, not one
prices in the range of $150,000 to _ farm. and leave the farmers’ lands alone, member of Central Saanich coun- Editor’s note: Ray Lamont is a se
$170,000 per parcel. This procedure is now being stating the use of adjacent land by _ cil or the regional parks board has former Central Saanich alder- of
“Both lands go to mean high — considered for the Central Saanich RVs gives the public safety on the ever approached the farmers of this man and was an original mem- a
-water as shown.on Land Registry. official community: plan. beach. arca, on site, to talk over the — ber of Central Saanich council, =a
Records. In 1981 Central Saanich gave to The people who attended the possible purchase of their land. serving intermittently for 19 hi
Now the parks board comes — the CRD the municipal park and e

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