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TERRACE —City council will
_ have to address the problem
.. caused by logging truck traffic

on Halliwell Ave. once and for

all at its Aug. 10 meeting, accor- .

“ding to Mayor Jack Talstra.
by Tod Strachan —

““T get phone calls saying it’s
my responsibility as mayor to
enforce the by-law, but it’s not,
— it’s a council responsibility

-. and, in my view, it’s a monetary |

aswell as a saftey consider-
’ ation,'’ he said. 7

He said that council had the

choice of trying to obtain a court

-injunction to stop RJA Forestry -

Ltd. from using Halliwell Ave.
as an access route to Kistselas,-

or changing their resolution to -

allow the logging operation to
continue. —

“To go to court for an injune- -

tion to stop the hauling now,”
_ explained Talstra, ‘‘they can do-

fairly quickly and probably get
‘But that’s not the end of the
matter. It would probably be ap-
" pealed, and a court case set five
to six months down the road. If
they lose that appeal, then RJA
Forestry could sue the city for

‘results were

_ Trucks roll on Halliwell, City
_ probes legal stan oe

the period they haven’t worked.
‘“‘My recommendation to
council will be that if they want

to uphold this by-law they better ©

set aside $30,000, or maybe even
$50,000 for this court case and
ask them if they want to-use the

taxpayers money in that way.’?.

_ Also, a city-funded study on
the feasibility of using ‘the
Steinhoe Creek route as an alt-
érnate access route, if ready be-
fore Aug. 10, could have an-ef-
fect-on council’s decision if the
positive, according
to Talstra. oe

“If the study came back say-

ing, ‘yes it’s feasible to build a.

road: through the Steinhoe,’ then
I'd like to pull all the players in,
including the Ministry of High-
ways and Indian and Northern
Affairs, and ask why we can’t.
build a road and let ‘everybody
take some responsibility,

_“*With that way to go, then I °
- think we could turn around and

say to the people that we’re go-
ing to be hauling on Halliwell

for two years and you're just go-

ing to have to put up with it,
“We've done that with the
Skeena Cellulose burner and I
think that would satisfy the peo-
ple. 1 think that’s the solution?’
In the meantime, Talstra said

ce

the city was going to be very

cautious in the enforcement of
the existing by-law banning large
trucks from North Sparks and
Halliwell. a

“We. have checked with our
solicitors because enforcing a
by-law is very tricky,” he said.
“it’s up tothe city whether to

enforce a by-law or not, and for |

‘the moment we've told the
RCMP that we want a legal opi-
nion first, We want to make sure
that we can enforce this by-law
before we go ahead.” 7

. He added that the usu

‘method of charging people who

violated a city by-law would be

ineffective in this instance. -

‘*They go to court, pay their $30
and off they go,’’ he explained.

Talstra said that the city’s cur-

- rent resolution was to allow RJA

Forestry to do a limited amount
of hauling,and even though that
agreement wasn’t signed, coun-
cil’s intent to allow limited log-
ging traffic on Halliwell was

-Clear,

He said only a few of the 60 to
100 loads discussed by council
had been taken out of Kitselas
and said, ‘‘They’ve hardly be-
gun to haul so we don’t want to

Move too quickly,”’

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