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+ Residents must wait for plan process
to run its course, Central Saanich says —
under pressure for response fo commission

No decision yet
on ALR removal
by Glenn Werkman

@ The Review

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Central Saanich residents will
have to wait for council to review
hundreds of comments — includ-
ing those recently received from

the land commission — before a

position on land reserve removal
for urban use is taken in a second
draft plan.

Residents have asked individual
aldermen to take a stand on com-
ments from the province’s Agri-
cultural Land Commission. In
response to the first draft, the
commission said it won’t support

reserve for urban expansion.

But so far, council has said it
will wait to digest comments and
compose a second draft of the
plan.

“Tm listening, r m not talking,”
Ald. Wayne Watkins told the Jan. 8
council meeting.

Whether agricultural land will

we be designated as future urban

development in a second draft is
not known. In the first draft, 198
acres of ALR land is identified for
future urban development.

“Bill Ashwell, chairman of the
Association for the Protection of
Rural Central Saanich, pressured
council members to individually

= state a position on the commis-

_ sion’s stance. FE
“The community is” -alarmed

#% that council is not responding to its
@ concern for the ALR, * Ashwell

said during question period.
“We keep getting a feeling of

ae support for the ALR for council.

Could we hear from each individ-
ual council member?” Ashwell
asked.

Mayor Ron Cullis said council
hadn’t met to discuss the land
commission’s comments and said
they shouldn’t be made a central

@ssue in the community plan

review process.

Ald. Gary Valiquette said he
supports the letter from the com-
mission “in its entirety.”

Ald. Arlene Box wouldn’t say
whether she supports the letter’s

recommendations.

“Apthis time we have to look at
all the information before us and

‘I’m listening, I’m not
___ talking’
-Ald. Wayne Watkins

continue on discussing it,” Box

said.

Ald. Wayne Hunter voiced his
respect for the land commission’s
authority but said a process | ~+ *
be followed.

“The letter is addressed to Tom
Becker (of UMA. Engineering
Ltd.’s planning department) and
Becker will come back to us
together with the results of all
meetings held in the community.”

Hunter said mountains of corre-
spondence has been received from
the public and council is working
its way through it.

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“Tm reading so many letters I
can’t believe it,” Hunters aid. “I
just about know everyone in Cen-
tral Saanich now and I appreciate
that.” :

Ald. Jack Mar said, “I have to
review the whole situation before
coming to a decision.”

He’s concerned about soil capa-
bility studies, and said “a lot of
vegetable and small fruit farms are
not viable.”

Mayor Ron Cullis said council
will take about two weeks to
Teview new material but wouldn’t
say when a second draft plan
could be expected.

“There are hundreds of docu-
ments to go through to arrive at a
second draft,’ Cullis said.

The review’s timetable is behind
schedule. But the timetable isn’t
important and the review isn’t

Trafficking
charges

A 26-year-old Sidney man faces

a string of drug-related charges ,

after police caught him allegedly

trying to sell cannabis and hashish §

in a local hotel parking lot.
Sidney RCMP arrested Gareth }
Edward James of Weiler Avenue j
about 8:20 p.m. Jan. 8. James
faces charges of trafficking in a
narcotic, possession for the pur-

pose of trafficking, possession of a }
Narcotic and possession of §

hashish, police said.

- He was held overnight in police
cells and was expected to appear
in a Victoria provincial court last
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mayor said.

A comparison of the second
draft official community plan and
the one reviewed in 1984 is
expected in the second draft.

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