AB - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, October 16, 1996

Court action to close
illegal suites okayed

THE CITY is beginning legal action
today to force two property owners to
close illegal suites on Hamer Ave. and
Walsh Ave.

One home on the 4800 block of
Hamer Ave. is gaing to be the target
of a Supreme Court injunction,

If successful the city will get a court
order to close the suite — because it
violates fire and safety provisions of
the building. code-—- and a judgment
requiring the owner to pay all court
costs of the proceedings.

A second house at 4810 Walsh Ave,
will be tackled on the basis that it is
was built with a suite contrary to R1
zoning.

ICBC now lists body shops

Tickets will cither be issued or
charges will be ftaid in court with
owners subject to fines of $100 per
day up to a total of $2,000.

Lawyers will aso seck legal costs if
those tickets are contested and: the
matter ends up in court.

The city
properties on its list of illegal suites
where owners had blatantly violated
city bylaws, Three of those have‘now
given some indication they’ll comply
or fry to coaperate, according to city
councillor David Hull,

Action will be taken if they don’t,
he said, but the two remaining defiant
owners on Walsh and Hamer will be

originally had five

test cases for the cily policy in dealing
with illegal suites,

“They've been ignorant,’ says
Hull. ‘There’s no other word for it.
They've thumbed their noses at the
law,”?

He said cily staff have been careful
to ensure it has a rock solid case
against the offenders, and said he’s
annoyed that a few people are forcing

~ the city to take extreme action,

-“We’re spending an outrageous
amount of staff lime on two or three
peaple who can’t follow the mules,”
he said, ‘We're dealing with this day
after day while building plans sit in a
drawer waiting for approval.”!

ICBC HERE is going to
make it a bit easier for
motorisis to get information
on body shops,

It’s going to hand out lists
of body shops that meet its
standards when people ask
ICBC employees for help on
choosing a business to
tepair their vehicles,

Motorists can still choose
whatever body shop they

proval. But by the end of
October, ICBC clients will
be able to go straight to a
glass repair shop, skipping
the visit ta ICBC,

All you have to do is bring
in your vebicte registration
and insurance information,
and your windshield claim
can be processed right in the
glass store,

“Its more for the con-

than anything,’’ says local
claims manager Cnathy
Frezell. She says all the lo-
cal glass shops will be au-
thorized to do these claims,
This program, dubbed
Direct Glass by ICBC, first
began this spring ia
Nanaimo,  Peaticton and
Quesnel. Posilive response
from customers bas resulted
in the spreading of the pro-

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want, but they will now
have an accredited list to
work from, says local ICBC
manager Paul McNicholls.

“Asking our employees
about what body shops to go
to is one of the most com-
mon questions they face,’’
said McNicholls,

The standards were devel-
oped by ICBC, the Automo-
tive Retailers Association
and the B.C. Antamoabile
Dealers Association.

ICBC will present ap-
proved bodyshops with ban-
ners and information pack-
ages at a ceremony here
Oct. 22,

The provincial crown cor-
poration is also making. it
easicr to replace wind-
shields,

Drivers wha now want to
make a claim for glass
tepair or replacement have

to stop at ICBC first for apes oo

Locals
to vote
on fire
service

RESIDENTS OF outlying
areas beyond the Thornhill
fire protection district will
have to decide if they want
continued fire protection
this Fall,

That’s because, as of No-
vember 16th, the Thornhill
volunteer Grefighter’s asso-
ciation will be out of the fire
fighting business,

The group is currently
responding to fires outside
the district boundaries, but
association —_ representative
Art Hill says that they can’t
afford to do that any longer.

“Revenue has been drap-
ping and costs rising,” Hill
says. “The association is
paying for the cost of
providing fire protection to
the expanded areas with Its
own funds,”’

That's why affected resi-
dents will be voting in a
referendum during the No-
vember 16th Municipal
elections, on whether or not
to expand the Thornhill fire
protection district ,

If the referendum passes, .
service will be resumed by
the Thornhill Fire Depart-
ment. If it doesn’t, the-af- .
fected areas will. be un-
protected.

The association, mean-
while, will get out of fire |
fighting all together.

"The association has
evolved into something far
beyond what it was ever
ineant td be,”’ Hill says, ~

“The referendum will al-
low us to bow out of fire
fighting gracefully.’?

A public meeting on the
impact of voting for or
against the proposed expan-
sion will be held at 7 pm on
Monday, October .28th at
the Thornhill Community
Centre,

For more information call
638-1466,

venience of our customers

gram across the province,

~ Paul McNicholls

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