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SAANICH PENINSULA AND GULF ISLANDS REVIEW

‘present

: development - ‘elsewhere | west of.
- the highway had been premature, .

~ ready,” he’ emphasized.
Dy his address to: Council: later, 5

spoke vehemently before Council

made

BY PAT MUNSON
Leisure Villa Estates ap-

plication for rezoning 38 acres
west of the Pat Bay Highway
south of Weiler Avenue for a
mobile home park has been

turned down.

Sidney Council split 2-2 on the
proposal with Ald. Norma Sealey
and Wilkie Gardner opposing.

A last-stand appeal for favor of
the one-and-a-half million dollar
investment was made by Ald.
Herb Perry, chairman long range
planning advisory committee.
Ald: Hugh Hollingworth. ‘also
spoke in support of the
development whose spokesman,
Fred: Purvis, addressed Council
briefly before the vote, re-
iterating the advantages he felt
Sidney. would gain from the
mobile home park.

Chief objections to the ap-
plication were inadequacy of the ©
present sewer system and the
laws governing
municipal taxation of mobile
home.-parks. According to a
report on these. parks, published
by. Saanich ‘municipality, the
revenue derived from this area
would be one-half of that derived
from the same land covered with
conventional homes. ;

"FOR OTHERS TOO

Mobile homes do not qualify for
home-owner grant. and their
‘occupants, because they lease
their site from the park
developer, are not .subject .to,
school tax. Ald. Norma Sealey.
felt. that if. the Town approved
such a. development which is
restricted to childless residents,
then all senior citizens in Sidney.
should be put on a tax-free basis.
Mayor Dear referred’ to a.
Capital Regional Planning

warning. given in 1968. to cease
. issuing permits and-or rezoning
. for apartments until better sewer
facilities: were constructed
_ Sidney. He. ‘noted: that “hasty.
approval. by. Council of industrial:

“The land must = remain in
“reserve until: the. sewer system is.

‘Fred Purvis, mobile home. park
developer, reminded listeners.
that engineering consultants had:
“told Long. Range Planners. that,
“the project should not be held up
for sewer reasons because these.
~ facilities, they felt,
adequate. : ae
-MORE RE VENUE :

“The young businessman, whose
- backers; - Harry” rillespie of
~ Gillespie Investments. ‘Ltd. and
Sid Welsh, former president of
‘Vancouver. Board of Trade, at-
tended Council meeting, argued
_ persuasively. He: predicted that
the park would attract. a 12 per
cent increase in population and
would generate at least 18 per
cent greater tax revenue to the
town in comparison with a single-
family dwelling development.
‘Mayor Dear reminded Purvis,
when he referred to the “viability
of a mobile home park’ that
Council had already accepted, in
principle, this type of home and

concept. we
Long: range: planning come:

omitted chairman’ Ald, Perry
voted on the project. "Planning is
for man, not man ‘for

-oplanging,” said Ald. Perry;

they live,
: Ald:

would be:

adding that people should have a”
orlghtto decide the way in which

Hollingworth’ sii id he

would like to see Town of Sidney
try to ‘negotiate a contract
satisfactory to all’’ in the matter
of taxation.

But Ald. Sealey cut in, ‘‘there is
no way we can accept money.
except in a legal manner.’’ She
pointed out that. where mobile
home parks have been designed
for senior citizens elsewhere,
they have, in fact been filled with

CHAMBER CRITICAL
OF COUNCIL ACTION

Sidney Council's action in
rejecting the application: of
‘Leisure Villa Estates to
establish a mobile home park
was. criticized by many.
members of Sidney and North
Saanich. Chamber of Com-
merce meeting last week.

. Month Mere

Continued from. Page 1

property. acquisition . problems
and relocation’ of . power...and
telephone lines but the work was
progressing ‘‘pretty well on
schedule.”

Considerable work was still to
be done at the McTavish Road
intersection .where the highway
takes. an extremely new route,
west. of the existing road, with
left-turn lanes to MeTavish and
Lochside Drive, as well as turn-
off lanes. The new highway will
be much lower here and ramps
will be built from Lochside: and
McTavish: ‘down to™ the. omain
thoroughfare.”

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‘the |

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traffic signals ate four’.
_tersections will go ahead.
‘Lighting work. already ‘is: under

. signals.

‘MeTavish. Road and Beacon
Avenue. At the only other access
read to. the highway in.the 6.5

“miles stretch,

Island: View, will be closed off,

them will use service roads which
are nearing completion.

Dawson Construction crews here
until next. year will include ‘the
covering and landscaping of
pieces“ of the existing ‘highway
that.are being by-passed by the

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in=. |

‘way..at. Mt.;Newton. Cross Road.
where. there will be stop-2 -and- 60

“There will be. similar signals at : :

Jat, Amity Drive,
flashing. amber warning lights
wih be. installed, : ;

AN other. intersecting roads,
with the exception of Ardwell and-

_and:traffic. ordinarily handjed by- : ie

Clean: “up work which will keep.

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families when the parks could not
be fully occupied by senior
citizens. ‘We could not enforce
these regulations.”

Ald. Gardner commented that
at Union of B.C. Municipalities
recent convention, mobile home
parks were discussed and
‘municipalities are not looking at
them until the government ad-
justs the tax base. ”

.. Chamber representative at
Council John Elliott reminded
listeners that the mobile home
proposal had been supported
by the Chamber of Commerce.
:-"One of the purposes of an
active body. is te support top-
notch deals such as this,”
observed Elliott.

*..He went on to describe the
“odd situation’. existing in
Sidney. Council wherein, if a

‘zoning. preblem meets . with
opposition from two members,
it is automatically disallowed.
Zoning matters must he ap-
proved by a two-thirds
majority and there are just
four aldermen and the Mayor .
to deal: with. them, explained
Elliott.

.. "This sort of thing happens
time and again,” the Chamber:

‘member said. ‘We all accept
that there-are problems, but.
Council might have’ left. the.
door open: for negotiations.”
«President. Len Siver con-:
_ curred, saying that the semi-

well-off people, for. whom the ©

- development was. intended

asset. to the: community.
io. Cham ber.
. “approved a. resolution to write mn

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Fireboat

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To realize its full potential a
fireboat must be manned with
trained persodnnel. Hugh
Loney said that the present
volunteer firemen. could
operate right. now from a
Suitable boat with some
marina staff as skipper and
engineer. There would have to
be close co-operation and the
unit would be most efficient
when used in conjunction with
land-based machines. to
contain a fire from both sides.
The boat should be stable and
heavy with sufficient speed to
reach any part. of the
waterfront.-in minutes. The
chief cited several past cases
where a small boat was used
to carry a portable plump and
as soon as the hose was used
the hose pressure pushed the

craft away from the fire. It.is .

not. practical. to rely .on
commandeering any available
vessel,

On’ the question of shore
buildings, Mr. Loney had this
to say: “A fireboat. would
probably be of very sec-
ondaryimportance now but
would depend very much on
individual conditions. There is

_the odd spot particularly along
All Bay Road and on Roberts
Point where quite a few
houses ‘are built out almost
over the. water’’.

The ideal vessel for fighting
shore fires would be a landing
craft that might be beached so
that hoses could. be run

ashore: .; There.. are: several
homes situated on. rocky
points with good road access:
from one side but surrounded

on the: other.. three: by steep

banks to the ‘water.

‘Rest © Haven “Hospital,

- Situated: on-an island would,.

according ‘to Administrator:

Tom Bradley, be very much a. -
beneficiary’ of an active”
=: fireboat, It should be-realized_
that additional or improved
“fire service is a major factor: ~
in reducing i insurance rates Ones

the building af fected.

In summary Mr. Loney feels | a
- fireboat =

that’ when ~ a é
materializes it should be: kept

vata marina centrally located
-and a-definite fee paid for —
maintenance:

 wharfage. and,

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Peninsula. farmers
families were out in
numbers for the eighth annual
Saanich Plowing Association

championship last
Saturday.

Among the . spectators. were
General G.R. Pearkes and Mrs.
Pearkes, who watched with in-
terest as neat and regular
furrows were skilfully turned the
length of the large field to the
east of the Saanich Fruit
Growers’ premises. on Keating
Cross Road.

Judges George Braithwaite of
Duncan and George Thomson of
Chilliwack named Bill Higginson
of Chilliwack as champion

meeting

“plowman in:the open class and

winner of the Capital City Tally-
Ho trophy, while Doug Bickford,
ll, gained the Archibald Camp-
bell Trophy for the best novice
plowman, and also the award for
the youngest plowman in the
competition. :

Second in the. championship
class was Jim Mar, and Doug
Mar was in third place. Distinc-
tion of being the oldest. plowman
to compete was gained by Stan
Fox, 46. .

Highboy in the under 18 class
was won by Daryl: Michell,: who
was. awarded the. Saanich
Fruitgrowers’. Association
trophy; Royal Canadian Legion,
Branch 37, trophy for 4-H ‘boys
under 18 was won by Jim Raper.

wharf.-He estimated a land- .
based fire fighting unit
-ecompletely equipped _ would.
_ cost around $40,000 and
thought that this would be:a
-reasonable figure fora fire

boat..Equipment alone would

represent $15,000 to $20, 000 of.

: this amount.

In presenting this series of,

two articles to Review readers
‘it is hoped: that a ‘very. real
“problem in’ our. community
has. been® brought: - into
somewhat sharper focus. The
- situation exists.
; should, ‘not be swept under. the

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by Michael. Wright. Shirley
Raper, 19, was adjudged winner
of the women's two-furrow
contest, and the inter-school
perpetual trophy put up by
Saanich Plowing Association was
gained by Claremont senior
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