_ Gravel pit plan hinges
on public response

‘By DUSTIN QUEZADA

ADJACENT PROPERTY
owners. and , neighbours
to a proposed gravel pit
in the Copper Mountain
subdivision will get their

' chance to be heard tonight
at a public meeting in
Thornhill.

The re-zoning application
‘from J.L.’s Excavating Ltd..
would allow for extraction;

crushing, screening, sort-
ing, backhaul and storage of
gravel on 10 acres of a 20-
acre piece of land just north
of the Terrace Rod and Gun

_ Club and across ‘the street

from about a dozen homes .

- on Rose Ave. :
_Gerry Lozinski, owner

of J.L.’s Excavating, bought
the property last year and he
says he spent three months

. clearing the former gravel

pit site of landfill waste that
had accumulated there and
_ then presented his plan door-
‘to-door to area residents in _

'- November and December.

“T went around the neigh-
bourhood to let them know
what I was up to,” said Loz-
inski, adding 166° people.
signed up in support of his
application to the Kitimat-
Stikine regional district.”

But ‘since then, subdivi- :

sion residents have voiced
their concerns to the region-

«all district as the bylaw has
gone through a first and sec-’*

ond reading this year.
That has Tosh Yamashita,

- a planning consultant work-

-ing for Lozinski, concerned .

that residents are reacting to

. misinformation.
“Up to March 24, [J.L.’s

~s:--Exeavating] was, negotiating

on the regulations of the by-

. law,” Yamashita said. “Prior
concems are just, specula- ©

Medical

bus not:
for a

public

ONE POSSIBLE way of

providing an alternative to
hitchhiking along Hwyl6
isn’t suitable, says an official
from the agency putting it
together.

Mark Karjaluoto of the

Northern Health Authority ~

Says its medical bus system,

_ tocome on line in June, isn’t. -
-meant for general travel.

The system, financed’ by

a $4 million grant from the .

province, will feature both

short haul and long haul bus ~

service for people needing to_

~ travel from their home com-

munities for medical care. .
“Tt really isn’t designed
as a general ‘transportation

type of option. Our mandate —

is very specific,” said- Kar-
jaluoto. 2
Coming up with ways to
cut back on hitchhiking has
emerged as a theme because.
of a number of missing and
murdered women along
Hwy 16 were last seen on the
road looking for a ride.
The medical bus service
will provide regularly sched-
uled service along Hwy 16,
Picking up and dropping off
patients as required. ;
’ Karjaluoto also noted that
the ‘smaller buses and larger

‘ coaches won’t have the pas-

Senger capacity as conven-
tional vehicles because they
are being built to accommo-
date people'in wheelchairs.

“We are making a provi-
‘sion for companion travel,

for people to accompany a-
person who may need some
assistance, but again that
will depend upon the space
available,” he added. .
’ The one route where the
medical ‘transportation plan
could also involve general
travel” is. between: Terrace
and Kitimat.

That’s because local gov-
emments and others have

_ expressed an interest in es-

_operators.And
“pit’s life cycle is exhausted

tive.”

Residents are concerned -

‘about noise, safety and a de-

cline in property value, says

Yamashita.
Lozinski’ s confident that
those concerns have been

addressed after the proposed .}

bylaw was amended after its
first reading.

The area to be re- -zoned
was .pared down, drilling,
blasting and the manufactur-
ing of concrete was eliminat-
ed, a planned maintenance

"garage was scaled down and

the hours of operation were
restricted to 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Lozinski says his equip-
, Ment — trucks and a screen-
ing machine — are new and
State-of-the-art in terms of

‘limiting noise and that he

will have a zero tolerance

_ safety policy with, his driv-

ers.
Yamashita adds the ap-
plication is. unique: because

‘the operation will. include’

screening _of contaminant- .

. free soil that would then be

recycled: as topsoil ~ mate-
rial that would otherwise go

-to landfills. =.’

The pit is also proposed

vas, a demonstration pit and _

training area for equipment .
“once, the

nannian eR

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For the month of March
Royal LePage Terrace,

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" Gerry Lozinski_

- Lozinski estimates: eight
years ~ the land will be level

and suitable for a’ subdivi- _

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sion, he added.
The minutes ‘from ‘to-—
‘night’s: forum will go back |
.to the regional district board
and the bylaw would either
proceed. to.a third: reading, :

_ be amended ‘further or die,

says a regional district plan-.
ner.
“[The public meeting’ s]

‘our way to ensure people get’

a.say,” said Ted Pellegrino. ~

The meeting is at the Thorn-"
hill Community Centre at 7
p.m. ;

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uled ground route.

‘In this case, the Northern
Health Authority. is work-
ing with those governments
to come up with a plan that
‘meets their respective needs,
said Karjaluoto.

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