COMMUNITY PLAN: TERRACE -- Next Wednesday, local residents will get their first shot at shaping the Terrace of the next century. “That's when the city is holding its public open house on the pro- posed land use plan. The plan lays out what should — | : be buill where in the future — . where apartment buildings would ~-be..allowed,.. for. example, and. |: ~ \ where any future industrial devel- opment should be located. While some of the designations in this plan mean litle or no change to some areas of the city, there are some new things to look for such as a new ‘mixed use’ and development permit areas, From 4 p.m. to 9 p.m., Feb. 17, copies of the plan, maps and ex- planatory information will be on show at the Coast Inn of the West. : City staff, representatives of the consulting firm the city has employed on the project and councillors will also be on band to answer any questions and ex- plain what it all means, And those attending will be asked to fill out a questionnaire detailing their reactions and pref- erences, Based on the resulis of this open house, the present draft plan may be further amended, The: revised: version will then come before a public hearing, ex- pected fo take place next month. Once again, depending on what happens at that hearing, council may choose to further refine the land use plan, The final version wilt then form the basis of the city’s new, and long-awaited Official Community Plan (OCP). Once passed by council. the OCP is supposed to -be the masterplan for the future growth of the community, Take the time to drop in at the open house. Aficr all, the future of your cily, neighbourhood and Street are being decided, ssa TERRACE: Yes, and it happened last year for the first time ia local recorded _ weather history. So says the 1992 Annual Meteorological Summary released by the local weather of- fice. It notes a trace of snow fell at the airport on June 1, the first time that’s happened since the of- fice began keeping records back in 1951. The’ year also brought the darkest, wettest January, wannest and ‘least snowy March and gloomiecst, wettest September. Few will have forgotten, even now, the endless overcast skies of last January which produced only 72 minutes of sunshine. That absolutely destroyed the previous gloomy record of 14.5 hours set in 1976, Those clouds also deposited 216.8mm. of rain. on the area, easily’ beating | the 1958 record of 183,20m. March was. definitely a more cheerful month. A monthly mean high temperature of 5.5 degrees was more than half a degree * warmer than the old record month of March, 198i. ; A string of daily records were also set as daily highs broke 14 degrees and overnight lows as warm as 4.9 degrees were re- _ corded. Bit it was‘ back to depressing weather again in September with a record 338,.6mm of rain during - the month, The deluge included the 124mm that fell over the 24-hour period - from. the evening of Monday, = Sept. 28 to the following mom- ing. That was more than a third higher than what normally comes _. down in the entire month of Sep- ae ee ee CO Snow in Sone? Stories by MALCOLM BAXTER City ready to show and tell | OFFICIAL COMMUNITY PLAN “MAP SCHEDULE B - DEVELOPMENT. PERMIT AREAS Industrial Commercial . Mixed Use Multi-family Residential Environmentally: sonsilive areas } : we: \ Ld HO 10 : ‘DRAFT _ " é + January, 1993 ume SHADY PROPOSAL The land use nian going on. publ: display next: 1 week proposes all the shaded areas on the map above become development permit zones. lf these zones are put in place, any development within them will have to adhere to certain guidelines. Tackling an old bogeyman TERRACE -- If the proposed development permit areas come into being, an old rezoning problem could disappear. The draft land use plan proposes five different types of permit area: environmentally sensitive, commercial, industrial, mixed use and multi- family development. And it’s that last which could go a long way to solving a recurring problem with attempts to rezone property for apartment buildings. Under the existing system, a property owner can, When he seeks rezoning, offer all the as- surances neighbours could want that he will ensure the building fits in with the area, In other words, it won’t be an ugly concrete block, The problem, as councillors had to admit to protesting neighbours at rezoning hearings held last year, the developer was im no way obliged to do carry out those promises. Even if the assurances had been genuine, once that owner sold the now-rezoned property to an- other, the new one was entitled to build whatever he or she liked providing it conformed to the building code regulations and there was | sufficient parking space to meet city by-laws. If the multi-family permit system comes into effect, any plans for such developments would have to ‘‘clearly identify’? what part of the site would be used for what, the width of any road, the height of the building and just how Iandscap- ing requirements were going to be met. The idea behind these new regulations is to ensure new buildings ‘‘maintain a compatible — form. of development with sensitivity to the form. and. character of adjacent residential develop. ment’’, After some of the rezoning rows they went through in *92, councillors would doubtiess wel- come the introduction of permit system controls. ot SPoyeeece r i. Weather. you liked itorn MORE MARINA than park. That was the Lakelse Provincial Park after September's deluge. Numerous lakeside homes were flooded out and Hwy 37 south was once again inundated. The downpour quickly washed away memories of one of the areas better summers in recent years. tember and the most for any 24- hour period on record. _Another depressing record set . was the least sunshine for a Sep- tember at 68.4 hours. Other highs and lows found among the wealth of statistics coontained in the summary: * Hottest days - June 29 and . July 19 at 30.3 degrees. * Coldest day - December 31 - with a low of minus 21,8 degrees and a high of minus 19.7 degrees. * Driest month - August with just 21.8mm of rain, a third of normal. . * Heaviest snowfall - Decem- ber 23 at 47.2cm. * Total snowfall for year - 263,2cm (normal is 403¢m). * Sunniest month » July with 256.5 hours and not a single day on which the sun did not appear for at least a while, owever, although August fell short at 253.8 hours, it could be described as sunnier because the sun shone 61.6 per cent of the available hours ‘the shorter days” offered.) ’ * Sunshine for year « 1,442.6 hours (normal is 1,404.5 brs). * Days without sunshine - 108 (26 of those in January). " Windiest day - January 30 with a blow from the south of 6ikm/h, gusting to. 81km/h. | ‘* Longest periods of daily highs above 20 degrees - 16 days, from June 21-July 6 and Aug. 10-25. * Longest dry spell - 16 days, Aug. 9-24, with no measurable rain. * Longest wet spell - 26 days with measurable precipitation _(rain and/or snaw), Dec, 6-31. * Total rainfall for year - — 1,348.7mm (normal is 934.3mim).. * Days with measurable rain - 210, *Days with measurable snow « 52, * Last Frost - May 19 (minus 0.4). * First day of 20 degree plus temperature - May 23 (22.4) * First frost - Sept, 15 (minus 1.4). * First snowfall - Oct, 16- (2.2cm). * Miscellaneous - The area ex- perienced hail once, freezing rain an six days, 60 days with fog and six thunderstorms. The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, February 10, 1993 - Page A5 _ LETTERS TO THE TERRACE STANDARD Dear Sir: _. some of the conclusions that Gil Payne came to in his letter of last week were correct, but the reasoning he used to get there was a bit skewed to say the Icast. F wonder if he appreciates the » frony of “‘white’’ hunters com- plaining about natives killing , foo many buffalo. I saw no mention of the fact that it was white: society that set up a . paternalistic bureaucracy that _ identified natives by race in the first place. . Where was Mr. Payne when the segregation of natives by race was used to deny them ac- ‘cess from al] the fruits of our society, In the case of the Nisga’a he could have pointed out that there was no ‘‘equality of op- portunity”? when the resources of the Nass Valley were being liquidated, and Nisga’a were excluded from full participa- tion because they were natives. There is a reason why the land claims issue is there, and the native communities were not the ones ihat started this tradition of separate rights and privileges according to race, It is curious, however, to see the opposition to this policy when it threatens existing privileges and power stnuc- tures. ‘It makes-one suspicious that the hue and cry about “‘spe- cial’ rights for natives isn’t motivated solely by an in- ordinate love for constitutional law and the Magna Carta. This is a complex issue and simplistic jingoistic letters such as his do nothing to con- tribute to solutions, As far as ihe law seeing no race, gender, age, etc., should we allow 10- Tights _ of women and “‘ninorities? Allow 14-year-olds | io buy liquor? Mr. Payne can be fairly con- vincing when speaking to con- . servation of moose, but he should not presume to be a constitutional lawyer, - As far as the moose being killed along the roads to the Nass, if he had checked with Dear Sir: I’ve lived in the Terrace area for 40 years. I’ve worked in the woods as a logger and I now work in a sawmill as a head saw filer supervisor, I’ve read with great concern many articles in. our focal newspaper by avid fly Rob Brown about the cutting of our old growth forests, I'd like to explain a couple of things to Mr. Brown. . Forests are like vegetables in a garden or fruit on a tree, When they’re ready for har- vest, they must be used, Old growth does not stand forever. T belicve we should be more _concerncd ‘about good sil- _ Vicultural practices, — We must, In order to have Moose criticism must be valid . the roads to the Nass. Any rea- - canno sustain this level of ex- | jycar-olds sto drive, (throw: out... vs fall Jegislation projecting, dhe, Old forests like a garden fisherman and. school teacher local authorities he would have found owt thal apparently. many. of these moose are being bought by white people. He fails to mention the many pregnant cow moose killed and left to rot on islands along the Skeena this year — some, if not mosl, killed by white hunters, . This illustrates another basic flaw in his letter. He makes it appear that the BCWF feels that only natives are a problem as far as. poaching. This is in fact not. the case, and as a BCWF member, Ms. Payne certainly docs not represent my views. ; Poaching is not a racial characteristic, and in any case I doubt that many natives look at the killing of game animals the = same as we do. Poaching is not a racial char- acteristic, and in any case I doubt that many natives look at the killing of game animals the same as we do, To. many of them it is not a ‘‘sport’’; or a “‘game’’, but an on-going part of their lives, . This is not to condone, in any way, what is happening along sonable person can see that those animals are too vul- nerable during the winter, and ploitation, ; As some one who is very in- volved in fisheries issues I have stood toe to toe with na- tive Jeaders and crilicized them when they are wrong. They are Not;, nor should ‘they. be, im- stoune from. criticism... 1h Nor should everyone who ‘criticizes a native leader be labeled a racist. - But given our history, it makes sense to take a lot of care to make sure that the motivations for such criticisms are valid, and that the criticism is even-handed. Brice Hill, as _ Terrace, B.C, 7 New trees must be planted for every tree cut, We must replant what nature knows best suils an area. All gardens need additives put in the soil io make them prow, Nature has for thousands of years made compost and put nutrients into the soil. Trees need compost to hold moisture, We shouldn't bum - and destroy this, Young irees need this during dry summers to help protect them, ~ I'd also like to mention, Mr. Brown, that the jobs created from manufacturing paper and lumber are $20-an-hour jobs. We as taxpayers couldn’t af- ford the taxes to cover your high wage as a teacher if it | wasn’t for forestry jobs. forests forever, pay a lot of at- George Chinn, ‘tention to silviculture. Terrace, BC _ More on Page A8 The. Stari is for people “earning how to read. Kimberly - Boyko . Meredith McLeod. Party It was .a big party for 7 : Terraceview . people at Lodge. It was like a. birthday party, to give out cake, “These girls are with John Ogbourne. . The girls are Erin Davies, Alesha Boyko, Lots of girl guides came fi and a | - | Kalum. The shelter has some help. It got $10,000 from the provincial government. — This means workers will get paid, worked for no pay. | The shelter is open ftom 8 p.m. to 8 am, It is lo- cated at the health unit on Shelter help Up until now, they have It is for people who do not have a home, The shelter is run by the | Terrace Anti-Poverty Group Society. It opened last December. The money will help the shelter stay open ‘until March. . ‘People are also looking at more ways to help the homeless.