Ai2- The Terra RD in Brief ce Standard, Wednesday, March 6, 199u Mess rules expanded IF YOU live in the Lakelse Lake area, and your yard looks like a pigsty, watch oul. Regional District directors fave adopted the “Unsightly Premises Bylaw’? tor Thornhill and amended it to include the area around Lakelse Lake. Under the new bylaw, if property owners [ail to clean up their yards after they’ve warned, the Regional Dis- trict can move in and do il themselves, And you can then expect the bill to be added to your property taxes. “Thornhill and Electoral Area C are growing rapid- ly,’ says board chair Joanne Monaghan, “As our population grows, so does our responsibility to our neighbours and community.” Thomthill director Peggy Julscth says the bylaw final- ly addresses the long outstanding concerns of Thornhill residents regarding some very unsightly properties that need to be cleaned up. Subdivision rejected IT’S BACK to the drawing board for the developers of a planned new subdivision in Thornhill. The developers had wanted the Regional District to rezone a 3/4 hectre parcel of land at the corner of Dog- wood and Lavinia to allow for smaller lot sizes. The current zoning allows a minimum parcel size of 1/4 hectre, bul the applicants wanted that lowered to 700 square metres. They'd proposed to subdivide the land into eight par- cels, including four each along King and Dogwood Av- Decline in union power claims local rep’s job FRED GLOVER has seen union power decline steadi- ly in the northwest — and now it’s cost him his job fighting for unionized workers here. Declining dues and budget cutbacks have forced the B.C. and Yukon Construc- tion Trades Council to close its Terrace office. Glover, the — canncil’s northwest coordinator, says he will. take..a transfer to Vancouver. “Everybody’s tightening up, lightening their budgets,” he said. ‘A lot of big jobs in the northwest have been done by non- union out-of-province workers who don’t contrib- ute ducs to unions.” A heavy-duty mechanic by trade, the 62-year-old Glover has been in the northwest 41 years since coming to Kitimat in 1954. To Glover, closing the of- fice here means one more stcp in the gradual reduction enues. park. Low Density Rural zoning, 1200 square metres. But that plan has area residents up in arms. He They say the smaller lot sizes would constrain the type of dwelling that could be built there and fear their neighbourhood could be tured into a run down tailer “We want a nice neighbourhood, and we want to keep upgrading,’ says Bob Erb. ‘We don’t want mobile homes in.’’ District directors have voted to refuse the rezoning application, and advise the developers to re-apply for That would mean lot sizes could be no smaller than of union power in the north. says the backlash against union workers — who he said some see as overpaid ‘“‘fat cats’? threaten to turn the clock back on the gains of years gone by. ‘Younger people dont realize the fight that went on back in the 30’s and 40’s and 50’s to get the benefits we have today. And now they’re = slowly — being “Younger people don't realize the fight that went on back in the 30’s and 40’s and 50's to get the benefits we have foday. And now they’re slowly being eroded.”’ Fred Glover eroded.” “We've lost our double time on overtime, we're losing some travel bene- fils,”? he said. ‘‘And we’ve gol a steady fight ahead of us to hold on to what we've got.” Workers have seen costs and expenses increase dramatically compared to union wages in recent years. “7 think it’s going to gel worse,’’ Glover adds. He said major projects al Methanex, and major high- ways contracts in the north- west have been done by oul- of-province contractors in recent years. ‘‘We have done our best to talk these people into hiring building trades and local people but it just hasn’t happened,” he says. ‘Slowly people who have never been on welfare in their lives are going onto the welfare roles and it’s a bloody shame.” “To sce it happening un- der an NDP goverment — I would never have believed it” YOUR COLLEGE IN * YOUR-COMMUNITY:: (eo-on’ TERRACE CO-OP * Family Fashions SPRING ARRIVALS! 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