Lake homeowners
battle over access

Catt Pt. road considered a private driveway

.By MIKE COX
SEVEN residents on the
west side of Lakelse Lake
are fighting to keep Catt
Point Rd., the only road to
their year-round homes,
open in the winter.

Catt Point Rd. is almost a
kilometer long, but only 400
metres of that road is the re-
sponsibility of the ministry
of Transportation and High-
ways.

Beyond that 400 metres, it
is classified as a private
driveway,

Rick Hynes, one of the af-
fected residents, said the
ministry stretch of road has
always been cleared in the
past, while residents pay to
have their private driveways
plowed,

‘We're not asking to get
our driveways plowed,” he
said. “We just want the
same service that has always
been provided.”

Residents found out last
week the road wouldn't be
mainiained by the niinistry

Buy school

_ turned

when they stumbled across a
sign stating the road isn’t
publicly maintained
anymore,

'*We didn’t have any in-
put at all,”’ Hynes said,

The matter is further com-
plicated, acting district high-
ways matager Shawn

aria

“We’re not asking

to get our
driveways plowed.
We just want the
same service that
has always been
provided,”'

_ McKinley said, because the

seven properties on the west
Side were sold as water-
access-only lois.

“These people have
water-access-only
lots into year-round lots,”’

McKinley said there are
no houses on the stretch of

land for

park, planner urges

TERRACE’S CITY planner
has advised the city to pur-
chase the land on which
Skeena . Junior Secondary
school rests to use as park
land.

David Trawin said the 19-
acre sile on the northeast
corner of the Munroe Street
and Walsh Avenue intersec-
tion is prime land for active
recreation.

“The city is very inter-
ested in picking it up,”’
Trawin said,

The school board will sell
the land where Skeena cur-
tently sits, once a replace-
ment for the aging junior
school is constructed on the
Caledonia site. The land is
being sold to offset costs of
building the new school.

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sile (the geographical centre
of town), Trawin said the
land, without the existing
school building, should be
retained for public use.
Trawin has wamed city
council that although it will
be expensive to purchase the
Site, upgrade the fields and
Maintain the property, these
costs are anticipated to be
less than the costs of pur-
chasing, developing and
Maintaining recreation land
in another area of the com-

munity, assuming such land

is available for purchase.

If the site is too expensive
to purchase, Trawin said
selling lots on the site is an
option.

‘But we prefer to leave as
much as parkland as we

can,” he said.
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ininistry road, so maintain.
ing it only benefits private
driveways.

*There’s nobody living

on that stretch of road,’’ he
said,

Residents are worried that
if, a compromise isn’t
reached they will be
stranded come winter,

“We're in a stow-belt
here so this road has to be
plowed,’’ Hynes said.

Hynes is also worried B.C,
Tel and B.C. Hydro — both
who mun services out to the
residents homes —- won’t
come out to fix any prob-
lems if the road isn’t
plowed.

“If we need an ambulance
we couldn't get it because
the road isn’t maintained,”
Hyncs added.

A ineeting has been tenta-
tively scheduled between
the ministry and lake resi-
dents for next week.

“We're going to try and
reach a solution that’s work-
able,” McKinley said,

SEVEN Lakelse Lake residents are fighting with the
Ministry of Transportation and Highways to maintain
Catt Point Rd — the only road access they have to

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