A10 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, January 25, 1995 COMPOSTING MAY be a workable way of re-using some of th 6 “garbage” going into the local landfill, but the Waste Manage- ment branch recognizes there are limits to what can be achieved by northern communities. FILE PHOTO. North gets break on trash target THE KITIMAT-STIKINE regional district will not be able to meet the province’s larget of a 50 per cent reduction in garbage. going into its dumps. - But that’s okay with the en- vironment ministry, al least for now. ; “We've been up front from the beginning,’’ said Bruce Lennox, the district planner handling its garbage management pian. ' “We've stated we will make a contribution to the overall provin- cial target (but) we're not going to meet the 50 per cent figure,’’ he explained. ‘ A'1989 ‘directive from Victoria required: regional districts to cut in half the amount of garbage going into landfill siles by the year 2,000. Tt also required a plan outlining how that was going to be achieved be finalized by the end of this year, However, waste management branch technician Ed Rotmiller confirmed the 50 per cent figure is not ‘‘absolutely carved in stone.” The ministry recognized the northwest faced specific dif- _ then just sit back. The plan would have to include: ficulties, he explained. For example, large scale recy- cling is economically impractical at present because of the dis- tances from recycling facilities and the cost of transportation. Therefore, the ministry could still approve a plan which called for less than a 50'per cent reduc- tion provided it came as close as possible to the target. Rotmiller anticipated the reduc- . tion largeted in the district’s plan would be ‘‘in the high 30s”. But, he emphasized, getting ministry approval for that figure wouldn’t mean the district could a mechanism for continued inves- tigation of markets and. tracking any new developments which might make it possible ta im- prove on the approved figure. For example, Rotmiller said, if a recycling plant was established in Prince George, the regional district would be expected to look at what changes that made to the economics of recycling here and adjust its posilion accordingly. ‘Reduction must remain a goal,’’ he stressed. Pay as you go pave plan eyed IF YOU WANT your street paved, you may have to pay for it yourself. City councillors are debating a system under which most city streets would only be paved if homeowners there agreed to share the cost. ; A local improvement project (LIP} goes ahead if elther a ma- jority of the property owners — or the owners representing at least half the assessed land value — vote in favour, All homeowners on the street are then charged a share of the project cost based on frontage foot. Projects that are voted down would be discarded, and the city would spend its money on paving streets where homeowners have voted to share the cost. ‘ Councillor David Hull strongly supports the idea because it would make the city’s money go much farther. But councillor Ed Graydon predicts the result will be a patchwork of pavement on city slrects. ‘People are going to vote it down all over town,” Graydon said. ‘You end up wiih a paved block and a dirt one, a paved one and a dirt one.”! Exempt from the plan would be major arterial and feeder streets, which are used by many more people and velicles than more residential streets. Councillors expect LIPs (here would fail because homeowners on the major arteries wouldn’t vote to repair damage done by in- dustrial traffic. Also few houses front onto those high-traffic strecis, making the cost per home higher than it would be on other streets, . The next step is to decide which streels will be declared ‘arterial’ -— to be paid for by the city — and which ones will be declared . ‘LIP only’. The committee asked director of engineering Stew Christensen to take on that job. Council also dusted off an am- bitious $2 million-a-ycar paving plan that the last city council shot down three years ago. . Councillor Ruth Hallock sug- gested that for ‘‘study purposes”’, council take another Jook at the plan — which was to commit the city to spending $50 million over 25 years. 7 ‘(This is a new ballgame here,’’ Hallock said. “I think we might get some different reaction now.” - City economic development of- ficer Ken Veldman siggested council consider a hybrid system, blending the LIP-only method with a long-term paving plan, Tf homeowners paid for the largely residential streets through LIPs, he said, the city would have a much better angument in getting industrial and commercial tax- payers to agree to a longer term paving plan for higher traffic streets. The tax bill would be much lower and industrial users would be paying for the roads their equipment helps break up — rather than. for pavement: they perecive as only boosting residen- tial home values. Heavy industry and business were the main opponents of the last big pave plan proposed. - “1's direct democracy,’’ sald Veldman. ‘You get your choice of what your block fooks like.’’ He predicted homeowners will support the idea if council adopis a consistent system. ee £ 4, Big Brothers and Sisters of Terrace | ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING February 20, 1995 7:30 pm at the 4 Terrace Inn ; CHINA 1995 May 29 to June 19, 1995 Shanghai, Wuxi, Suzhou, Xi'an, Hohot, Datong and Beijing. Canada-China Friendship Association fully escorted tour from Shanghai to Inner Mongolia, China. Leaving from Vancouver the tour Includes all meals, transportation, tips, visas: and more. English speaking guides AB, throughout tour. $3,500 Py from Jean Thomson 635-3159 or Gloria Alo MacLecd 382- 4809 For years, Pat wanted to quit smoking... SK J Then he got COLD FEET. BRITISH COLUMBIA LUNG ASSOCIATION Bax 3-009, Station D Vancouver, B.C. 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