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Alarmed, we felt that this proposed action was like a wedge in the
door, or a deck of cards falling, that would loose not only productive,
g00d farm land right up tm De Boville Slough at the base of Burke
Mountain, but also destroy a uniquely, fantastically beautiful
ready-made recreational area along the Pitt River dykes north of
the Lougheed Highway, with world-class scenery, and now used by walkers,

Joggers, hikers, bikers, horse-back riders, fishei-s, swimmers,

naturalists, and boaters, along natural sandbars and under snow-capped

peaks of Golden Ears, Blanchard's Needle, and Remote Glacier.

Racing around hectically over the weekend, I polled residents
in the area and collected 75 signatures opposing any proposal to
transfer these 325 acres from an agricultural to an industrial
designation.

This petition, and verbal presentations by myself and other
neighbours, were - given at GYRD’s public hearing March 25, 1980.

News paper accounts after this fact reported that Mr. George Laking,
Port Coquitlam's present Mayor, was absolutely furious that the
GVRD Planning Committee had supported our presentation and voted
to maintain the land in question as agricultural. Me. Laking swore
he would appeal this decision at a GVRD Board meeting sometime in
mid-April.

What transpired next was that, lo and behold, who should turn up
at Port Coquitlam City Council's door but representatives of the
GVRD Planning Committee, invited ostensibly, by Mr. Laking in a letter
dated Tuesday, April 8, to come out to Give a "presentation" to
City Council.