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p Cul brush, clear ditch
but keep grade the same,

by Valorie Lennox
The Review

North Saanich won’t meet all of

w residents’ safety demands for
* Dean Park Road — but will clear

undergrowth and clean up a ditch.

The existing 13 per cent grade,
however, can’t be changed, North
Saanich public works, transporta-
tion and environment committee
concluded Jan. 8.

Changes to reduce winter driv-
ing hazards on the road were
submitted to council in a petition
signed by 224 residents. The peti-
tion was initiated by Dean Park
resident Karl Lorenz Rudhardt,
who took the municipality to court
after an accident on the road last
z= March.
= Rudhardt said the steep road is
: the major access for the 600
residents of the subdivision and
must be given priority for snow

removal. Additional signs on Dean
Park Road would contravene pre-
sent policy, the engineer said.

Since Dean Park Road is the
main entrance to the upper section
of the subdivision for residents
and emergency vehicles, Zahynacz
opposed closing the road.

“As with all roads in the prov-
ince, there is an onus on drivers to
use caution with regard to road
conditions,” he added.

Zahynacz agreed with a petition
request to remove undergrowth on
the south side of the road, which
will allow the road to dry, reduce
the risk of ice and improve sits
ity.

The engineer doubted installa-
tion of sandboxes and shovels
along the road, as requested in the
petition, would help early com-
muters. A truck could spread sand
more effectively than one person

‘As with all roads in the province,
there is an onus on drivers to use
caution with regard to road
conditions’

He said the judge criticized the
municipal snow removal when the
case was heard in court.

Ald. Brian Dunic noted the case
against the municipality failed
because North Saanich does have
- a reasonable snow removal pro-

Municipal engineer Igor Zahyn-
acz said police alert municipal
staff to the need for snow removal
and sanding. The petition asked
the municipality to give Dean Park
Road a high priority for snow
~ removal and sanding; to add a sign
warming of possible ice to existing
road signs and to close the road if
driving conditions are unsafe.

Zahynacz noted the road, along
with East Saanich and McTavish,
® already has high priority for snow

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The petition also asked the
municipality to do an engineering
study into reducing the grade of
the road and to construct sidewalks
bordering the road.

Zahynacz said the present grade
of the road is within the maximum
residential grade of 15 per cent
although over the collector road
maximum grade of 12 per cent
imposed on all new roads in North
Saanich.

The road was built many years
ago as an access to John Dean Park
and met the standards of that time.
If the road grade was reduced, a

major excavation would be

required at the top of the hill west
of Nash Place. Also, trunk water
mains for the regional district and
the municipality would have to be

committee recommends

lowered, Zahynacz told the com-
mittee.
The cost to reduce the grade
would be high, he predicted.
There is a walkway designated
with a white line for part of Dean
Park Road, but the municipality

could consider a sidewalk in rela-

tion to other sidewalk priorities in
North Saanich, the engineer sug-
gested.

Ald. Brian Dunic suggested the
committee recommend unde-
rbrush be cleared, as requested by
petitioners, and staff report on the
cost of a sidewalk. -

The committee also received a
letter from Leslie Noon, who said
many accidents have occurred at
the corner of Nash Place and Dean
Park Road. When visibility is poor,

the road appears to tum up Nash |

Place, he said.

Dean Park resident Doug Reid
told council the roadside drain is
blocked, increasing the chance of
water collecting on the road and
freezing into ice.

Dunic recommended staff clear
the drainage ditch and also asked
staff to report on the cost of
erecting lighting and reflectors to
mark the road curve at Nash Place.

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