- PAGE TWO

BY BERT GREEN

Closely following the establish-
ment of Capital Regional Board
responsibility for planning. on
Sait Spring and the Outer Gulf
Islands, is the appearance of a
_-Feport on past development, the
“present situation and the type of
controls necessary fer the future.

- The study was financed by the -

_ Regional Board in 1969, and was
carried out by officers of the
Capital Region Planning Board
which since has become an inte-
.Gral branch of the Regional
‘organization.

' It is said that for 100 years the

Gulf Islands have been by-passed
“by the mainstream of urban de-
velopment, but during the last
decade the population pressures
and urban influences of Vancou-
ver and Victoria have expanded
to affect the Islands.
Consequently, issues such as
- sewage disposal, - pollution,
haphazard development and oil
exploration _. have... brought
reactions which: in some cases
chave “reverberated across the
country”. In October of last year
the provincial government, as a

holding device until the planning _

program is established, imposed
- a ban on subdivisions of less than
19 acres.
. Subdivisions ‘which have ap-
; peared during the last decade are
_ generally outside the. historic

- settlements: locations are tabu-.
lated to show that they are ex-

tremely scattered and sprawling.
“One-third of the 3,600 new lots
were on Salt Spring; mainly in the

- either registered or submitted for

northern part of the Island, while
the’ aggregation. of 1,450. lots.

approval: on. the south-west of

the largest single sub-division in
the entire Capital Region.

It has. been ascertained that
approximately one-half of the
purchasers of Island lots reside
permanently in the Vancouver
metropolitan area, the bulk. of
these acquisitions: being on
Mayne and North Pender. Next
largest group of ‘purchasers live
on the Islands themselves, while
U.S.A. residents account for less
than ten per cent of total. pur-
chases.

As to land values, a tripling of
cost is seen respecting small
upland lots of under five acres,
while small waterfront lots show

a fourfold appreciation in value

since 1960.
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Some concern is expressed that
so little land has been set aside
for public use, and that the
existing public land has no ap-

- parent relationship to the trend of

subdivision activity. Mayne
Island has only one major map-

reserve park, yet close to. 700
urban size lots have been pro-
vided in the past decade. On
North Pender there is no large
seafront public park although in
the same period subdivisions pro- -
vided 700 new lots.

Another “quoted. example’ is
north Salt Spring area where no
public lands have been de-
signated, although nearly .1,000
urban lots were made available
in the sixties. Only six per cent of
the total land area of Salt Spring

and the Outer Islands is under
public ownership.
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More serious is the fact that of
the total 207 miles of waterfront,
only three percent, or just over’
6% miles are publicly owned. On
Salt Spring only one-eighth of a
mile of. the Island’s 77 miles of
Shoreline is public sandy beach
with a slope of 20 per cent or less.

It is noted that the residents are
anything but apathetic about the
future of their Islands. When

BY PAT MUNSON |

~SPEC has moved into the Saa-
nich Peninsula! Local anti-pollu-
tionists joined last week to forma
Sidney and North Saanich Society
for Pollution and Environmental
Control and the first rally will be
held at 8 p.m. on June 15 at Deep
‘Cove School. :

Michael Gye, newly-elected
president, says to local residents,
“you need SPEC and SPEC needs
you, so get off your backsides!’’

who, by his own admission, was

majority”, heads.a small group

has now become one of the. “noisy

North: Pender. Island constitutes.

; minority”,

The Downey Road arborist.
‘until: recently one of the “silent”
of people who are determined to |.§-
overcome apathetic. public: feel-

ing toward pollution: Gye, who.

_ hopes : for a good.

d a wer, enquiries

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_ of Sidney. Duties entail: :
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municipal by-laws: preparation of reports and.

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crowd at the first Peninsula

SPEC meeting.

“We want people ‘who -’are
doers, not just membership card
holders,” explained the president
who has invited Kurt Horn, well
known. pollution fighter from
Duncan, to be guest speaker. Two
films will be shown, ‘‘A Matter of
Attitudes”, and ‘Multiply and
Subdue the Earth.”

It was the latter film, together .
with an illuminating day at. Uni-

versity of Victoria’s. pollution ~

which

teach-in, convinced.
Michael Gye and his wife Sonia,
both long-time. Peninsula

_ residents, of the urgency of the

situation.
Basically, the localSPEC exe-
cutive is concerned with land use
in the area.

“The Peninsula and the Fraser
Valley have the most productive
agricultural soils. in ‘British

_Columbia,”’ Gye points out, ‘‘But-

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the ‘mainland...

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turned: io on ‘the verge of ss
Puckle Road early Sunday.

missing.

Eliott, who ‘told Central |

again that. morning. and

~ had gone, also the radiator,
battery, generator, car-
buretor! and. distributor,

cover the road,
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~ formation in the hope that.
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co public” works chairman,
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that ie would be earted

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Maximum tem. (June 2)
Minimum tem. (June 7)

Minimum on grass ~ : 37

Precipitation ; - nil

Total Precipitation 14.84
: Sunshine :

Supplied: by the meteorological - division,

=: Department of Transport for. the week en-

| Clothing, Quil ts

“The following is the meteorological report.
-| for the week ending June 7 furnished by. the :
af: Research Station » Saanichto

morning, ‘when. it: was” |
noticed: that a wheel was. :

~ Saanich: council Monday
night that he had passed by |:

noticed that all four wheels

and nuts and bolts were all |, |,

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: Mean Temperature ; 62,9
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It will be open n for. packing a and
Sdays: from 9.30 a.m, to 3pm:

— Clean, warm clothing, quilts, -
‘ete. “are needed, as . well as.
“volunteers. to help with mending
and packing,»

Last © “year. the | Victoria
“Worker: oup packed over. 9,000 Ibs.
of, ‘clothing for. shipment. over
“seas mainly Korea. .

Ok permanent packing depot i is.
‘still ‘being ‘sought, and if anyone.
can help please phone. Miss . Oe
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Disposal of sewage into the sea
is a controversial point, says Gye
who feels that the opinions of
ecologists too often take second
place to recommendations of
engineers.

“Only. public. ocutery can
reverse the arguments of those
concerned more with money than
with preserving the beauty of the
land.”

At the’ inaugural meeting of:

SPEC last week, Susan Lapham
was appointed secretary.‘ trea-
surer and. the following targets
were outlined: sewage preblems

functioning septic tanks); zoning
cand land use, restriction of mis-
use (‘‘the land is more important
than the human. beings who use
‘it,”’); dumping of stumps and fill

servation bylaw to. prevent’ in-
ce pesticide pick ‘up to safely re-
move. old sstocks: of: dangerous
“pesticides.

Peninsula youth will be en-
couraged to take an active part in

“we have not got” comments Gye

vironment ‘must’ be taught early

(at airport outfall and residential .
pollution of beaches by: non-

questionnaires were. circulated
the response yielded 1,013 replies
from Salt Spring and 790 from the
Outer Islands.

The study indicates that Salt

Spring people are «more con-
vinced of the need for building re-
Straint than their neighbours on
the Outer Islands; also that they
were more receptive to the idea
of apartments, as well as showing

a greater interest. in having some
form of local government. To the
question: ‘‘are you in favor of

more employment opportunities |

on your Island?”’ Salt Spring resi-
dents were 55 per cent in favor;
the Outer Islands affirmative
vote was only 25 per cent.

Aims of the new planning
program are to firmly establish a.

liaison’ between. the Regional

Board and the residents of the

‘Islands through the two Directors

representing Salt Spring and the
Outer Islands, and through the
newly. appointed two Advisory
Planning Commissions. ©
According to the report, the
next stage will be the preparation
of a long term plan for the Gulf
Islands as a part of the general
plan for the whole of the Capital
Region... a program of manage-

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