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‘Frustrating, not satisfying’

Lott bows out of N. S. politics

Citing continued frustration
with North Saanich council, alder-
man Chris Lott will not stand for

another term.

“{ don’t find it.terribly satisfy-
ing. I find it frustrating,” the

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540°? $1.173 John Dean Park Society and a
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LIMITED SEATING $ 3,=$ 352 $15. = $17.60 I have reported many, many —
RESERVE IN $ 4.=$ 469 $16. = $18.77 || —— meetings in my time,” he
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= PERSON ; é 7 : 7.04 $18, = $211 Willis has lived in North Saa-
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art ; $ 8 =$ 9.38 $20. = $23.46 _ He ran for mayor in the September
7 FU RN ITURE $ 9. = $10.56 $25. = $29.33 byelection, citing an interest in
df. MART LTD $10. = $11.73. $30. = $35.19 municipal politics.
. $11. = $12.90 $40. = $46.92 ~ He was on municipal council in
656- 3724 $12. = $14.08 $50. = $58.65 |} Summerland for four years. |

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THE REVIEW 9781-2nd S.

Sidney lawyer said of his last four
years on council.

By VALORIE LENNOX
Review Staff Writer

“I don’t think we’re- doing our
job. properly. I don’t think the
municipality is being well-
served.”

He listed lack of planning for

_the future of the community, for

upcoming major expenditures
such as sewer service, and no
review of the agricultural land
reserve or parks as areas which are
not being handled well by council.

A resident of the area for all of
his life who wants to raise his
children in the community, Lott
thinks council is not preparing for

‘change or planning for the long-
term.

. Two incumbents, Bill Gordon
and Bill Taylor, will be seeking
re-election in the Nov. 19 munici-
pal poll.

Gordon, a financial consultant,
has served on council for a year
and is now seeking a two-year
term. He has lived in North Saa-
nich for three and a half years.

Taylor, retired from the navy, has
been on council since May 1987.
He has lived in the area since 1982.

Seeking seats on council are
journalist Maurice Chazottes and
businessman Vaughan Willis.

-Chazottes has lived in the area
since 1971 and is chairman of the
advisory planning commission.
He is also on the parks commis-
sion, a director for the Friends of

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Traffic safety is already a major concern for
Allbay residents. Said Jack Greenwood:
“You've probably seen me walking my dog. .
.afterwards, I go home and mix a stiff drink,
give thanks for my. deliverance, and listen to
my favorite song, Nearer My God to Thee.”

The crowd was told council is considering

_ closing Bowden Road — which connects
Allbay to Harbour — to all but emergency -

vehicles. Many Allbay residents thought that
would just add new problems, by forcing more

— left runs from Resthaven Drive onto Allbay

and cutting off easy access to the highway.

Greenwood said single-family homes are
“the highest form of social existence.”
But the community plan is “a blueprint for

builders and a charter for developers.”

Council was also told that it would have

little control over what kind of commercial
developments went in. The plan draft calls for
only enterprises that complement the neigh-
borhood’s marine nature.

“You know as well as I know. you can’t
police that,” said Rod Clack, a former advi-
sory planning commission member who
resigned over the last draft taken to the public.
“Someone can put in a 7-Eleven because
people need hot-dogs on their boats. Let’s not
fool ourselves.”

Clack continued his criticisins of the process
council used to achieve its revisions. “There
are standard procedures to developing a com-
munity plan and you have completely ignored
them,” he said.

For example, consultation at a neighborhood

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the neighborhood are unfounded, said Dickin-

son, one of just a few voices in the Gp -person

crowd in favor of the: plan.
““We have absolutely no intention. whatso-

ever. to’ construct the kind of development ..

some people have been suggesting would
happen,”. Dickinson assured council. His fam-

"ily has lived on Harbour Road 33 years, and
Van Isle owns nearly 65 per cent of the:
property which would be under the new ©
‘designation.
“The plan is a good ¢ one 2 and I would like to
‘seit happen, and I’m hopeful council will .
~ bring it ‘to fruition,” Dickinson: said.
Dickinson opposed the last’draft. that went :
~©. before the public. It would have designated ‘his.
i. land-on:the south side of Harbour high density
©, multiple family’ residential, which many north
side boating: industry operators told a July
~.; hearing would interfere with their livelihood..
““You’ve gone away, given it a lot of. thought,. ~
and come back with the best of both worlds,” -
-. Dickinson said. *:

= Future development along Harbour will help a

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‘coming to the public, he said. “To throw this in
at the end is an insult to the people of Sidney.”

There were no surveys proving the need for
Harbour Road development. A. community
plan should compare commercial land availa-
ble with such data as population projections
and buyer trends.

Clack said: ‘I’m not speaking only as a
resident of Harbour Road and Sidney. I’m
speaking from 35 years experience in the
planning game.

“And I find it frustrating in the extreme that
certain members of council will ignore the
advice freely given to them and rely on their
own experience and an outside consultant.”

Clack also said council should not accept
continued population growth as inevitable.
“You cannot plan for an unlimited amount of
population. You have a finite boundary around
Sidney.”

Clack suggested that if council wants. to
“save face,” it can allow some multiple-family
residential at the Resthaven end of Harbour
Road.

The retired planner said council is outlining

_ the destruction of the town’s character, under —

the provisions of the official community plan.

Council also heard that there’s little demand _

for ship chandler-type businesses in Greater -
Victoria. And in any case, they needn’t locate _
across the street from boat builders and
marinas.

One man said the style of stores are “really
few and far between. They really are.’

‘This is council’s sixth draft of the plan. For
the second time, revisions have reached the
second reading stage. ,

build the tax base of the town, he said.
"Although there weren’t many in the audi-
ence who shared his views, Dickinson wasn’t

~ alone. -

Stephen Franks, another owner of the
affected property, said residences along Allbay.
Road were mostly. summer cottages when he
moved to the neighborhood 38 years ago. ©:

“Now, I liked it the way. it was. But, in 38
years, I’m realistic enough to know that there
has to be change.”

_ Widening of Harbour Road, called for under
the plan as.a condition. before more develop-

_ ment, is inevitable any way, Franks said. Van"
~~“ Tsle’ still has eight acres’ of undeveloped. water -

~lot,. so-someday. there are going to be more

“Cars, che noted:

The plan is. “not the best, butit is Tetouable -

“aid: I. would. like to. congratulate you on it” :
: ° Franks said. . ann Cen
-.. Franks.. also said. Albay: residents. — who ately [A

: spoke repeatedly against the plan — are more.

throw council’s consideration off balance.

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been longer. in processing,’ * Fry

said.

Council’s resolution said

“council recognizes the fact that
this ‘school may be. relocated .

within. the boundaries of. the
ALR,”

“The resolution. called for a letter

be sent to the commission reitcrat-

ing that council will support _
“School District 63 if “for techni-

cal or logistic reasons feels that
any chosen site may have to be in

the ALR.”

“In amending the community

~ plan, council attempted to balance _

the agricultural ‘capabilities of
ALR land with the pressing social
and educational. needs of the

© young people in our community,”
‘the Ietler from. council to the ©
commission said,

Ald. George: MacFarlane was
the only council member opposed

q sto the resolution, © -
He said Oct, 17; “We've been

told to mind our own: business

yf stime and lime again by the mala
W°. board.
"We've done everything, we

could, including amending, the. .
community: plan in record time,

_-There’s no need for this resolu- —
tion,” MacFarlane said. :
Box said: “I don’ t disagree with
any of your history.” .
“We did not have a clear state-
ment from council, we had a very

watered-down statement,’”’ Box

said. “They may be acting on |
information that was not fair an”
“unbiased,

“The agrologist’ s ‘report stated

there are many orchards and dair- ~
ies.in the area, That's not correct. -
There is a orchard, a dairy. I feel
these reports: have to have some
sort of counter-balance,

“T can tell you it-is desperate .
and Ive been telling: you that for
two years,” Box said. “I feel very
strongly about this," she said |
repeatedly,

“We are co-carclakery of these
children with the school board and:
they're being cducated in a gravel

“pit,” Box said.

~ Mayor Ron Cullis sald in ane.
interview: “TL don't think the reso. |
lution told the commission any:.
thing they hadn't. heen told

~ before”

“TE don't think it wits extraondin=
cary that council made, the reno} “

tion,” Cullis said.

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