ies) = # ae See Ee Se mM £5 OS Se oe oN ee eee ee a permits are rampant in Central Saanich,. Inspector of Services - Jim Horel said in a report to Central Saanich council on Highway. “No: ... North: Saanich. joint - fire .com-: ek feel that this’ stretch nu Wednesday, October 7, 1970 SAANICH PENINSULA AND GULF ISLANDS REVIEW BY ED GOULD Legal wheels are set to go into motion at Saanich Municipal Hall if the owners of the truck ad- vertising the Royal Oak Motel is not removed when Pat Bay Highway. con- struction is finished. But the owners of the ‘‘mobile sign’’ say it will probably be moved before then because it’s mission has been accomplished. Alderman Foster Isherwood, who’ owns the motel with his. three brothers, said only the Motor Vehicles Act had jurisdiction over his sign. ‘It conforms to the requirements of the Act because it is licenced and operable.” It is moved from time to time in the field where it stands, about 50 feet off the highway and. one-eighth of a mile north of the motel. “IT don’t think the truck standing there adds anything to the motel, but I am only one of four part- ners, even.if they are my purchase the 157-foot boat. Built as an Antarctic whaler in Japan, in the 1950s the boat has been unused for three years and is in great need of repainting and will probably be given a-face- lifting in Sidney. Everything is in working order and she has a whale-chasing speed of 17.1 knots. Her new owners. may, send her to . Eastern Canada for sealing. (Review Photo). THE OLD DAYS were here again at Beacon, Avenue wharf last Friday when ‘‘Westwhale 9” purchased by a group of local residents, tied up after .a trip .from ~Coal Harbour, northern whaling-station on Vancouver Island. Frank Daw and Grant Paterson are two of the marine- minded businessmen who formed a syndicate to building bylaw a month’ have own. brothers.” Isherwood . maintained that the truck sign was no different than. any other ‘travelling .sign’ vilding Without Permit Rampant Construction and additions to-. Drive. ‘Both buildings were in buildings without benefit .of - course of erection on properties . on Mount Newton. Cross Road, he ‘stated. In. each case the. con- tractor named was Steve Butler.. “- “Tt is: about time. ‘something. - Was done beyond ¢ giving a general ‘warning,’’. said -Mr:. Horel, ~ mentioning that the bylaw allows the imposition of penalties. : _- In-reply toa question, he said that.individuals rather. than “contractors are usually at fault in beer; ‘spotted since he was ‘ap- pointed 18 months ago. 7 _ He informed council that he- issued stop orders. in:respect of.a” barn. under. construction” by Mr. and Mrs... L..C.-Maggiora,” 1517 Cedar Glen Road, andon'a house under construction by Mr, and Mrs. D.K. Foerster, Senanus Rough Riding For Ambulances — Ambulance passengers have a - vans and trucks:. Bay and ° “Mayflower Movers?) They advertise . too. The only difference is ‘Monday..He said an average of three infringeinents of the UNFAIR ATTACK road whichis the responsibility of rough ride when the emergency provincial and” “municipal, “undertaking structural : oficia wpe Sei a : route takes McDonald Park Road government, ‘is uncomfortably, alterations without a permit, laentirie Sal B - between. Resthaven Drive. and rough , - wheels are’in motion’’ = “except, that plumbing -con- |. -tractors are frequently. neglect- “fal,” he added. Council: by: resolution endorsed : othe: Inspector’ s stop ‘orders ‘and “orde a. that no: further: work be 17, Sidney and At Sidney Council ‘last. week, Ald. Hollingworth’ said. that. a “request. for. re-construction will. be placed. with B. C. ‘Highways is) not” : highway is completed. “municipality ‘and Sidney. Forming Po ‘JON MANNING. Ao. President } yd ee ' BRIAN TURNBULL _ Cost Analyst Py | : oe a CLARENCE BLASECKIE : Prope ICTION STARR Production Manager : cimaiaie cana A Poy ta cedi Wy oarp ah tye yy ay displayed on company ; “What about CFAX, The my sign sits in one spot.’’. treatm ent. sient ‘costing - A Saanich municipal $50,000 had been installed tO “prosecute | the owners of: — ‘the motel if the truck sign — ‘moved. once - the. For Assistance in Arts Campaigns AK merchants breaking the law with temporary signs because of street disruption,’ he said. ‘It would be unfair to attack one and let the others off.” He added that. certain municipal bylaws needed to be tested in court. “Then if a judge slaps ona $1 token fine, you know it’s a silly bylaw and council is urged to take it off the books.”’ READY TO ACT He said the municipality was “treading softly’ until the highway was finished. “We are not getting up-, tight now but if the truck is still there when the high- way is. finished well be ready to act.” Isherwood, a. lawyer, said he was aware of who was behind the move to rid him of his truck sign. ‘Someone who. has his own selfish interests at heart and some Royal Oak merchants who are jealous.” He said he was fortunate in -having 1,500 feet of frontage which allowed him ample room to park a ‘truck in the field. ““I-am being picked on - partly because I’m an bi concessions from municipality or the Board of Variance when we built this place. ‘He said. “sewage on’ the. 60 acre. property “ZONING APPLICATION - Fisher for’ subdivision: of 17 acres Sand Piers Road i in] North Saati “the: area's largest “locally, ‘owned fem offering a 921 YATES STREET . ces Amalgamation OF These Firms Makes It Possible To Offer A. COMPLETE SERVICE FOR THE ENTIRE REG Planning Your. Current and Promotional Graphic alderman — but alderman | or no alderman, we got no | the ‘‘without one cent from the - “Application: from: James” D on: the south side of Lands End: " About in taxes municipality. $10,000 a year would be paid. He admitted that earlier he and_ his had been financially ‘‘desperate when tourists went whizzing by at 70 miles an hour.’’ Highway — re- routing, slower con- struction speed zones and the truck sign had helped improve the picture He expects that the fact that a hill north of the motel is being reduced so that motorists will have a better view of the motel’s own attractive rock and neon light sign, plus the fact that the motel is now fairly - well-known, would make the truck sign ob- solete. “T. wonder though if this year brothers ILE SIGN T PAGE, ELEVEN | > APPEAL Pia © i people would be’ any organized territory was in happier if the property the hands of the. was cut up into lots with municipality. other motels on them and each with its own sign.” Neil Vickers of the Department of Highways said his department had received complaints about Isherwood’s sign but the responsibility. for In his opinion the motel owners were pushing ‘‘the law as far as they can’’ but even under the provincial government. 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