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No pub for
Canora Road

by Glenn Werkman
The Review

A referendum on building a 65-seat neighborhood pub on
Canora Road has failed, the applicant said Friday.

About 42 per cent of the respondents said they don’t want a
neighborhood pub built within a half-mile of their homes, Sean
McNeill said.

According to Liquor Control and Licensing Branch regulations a
60-per-cent majority of respondents must be in favor of the
neighborhood pub before it will be allowed to proceed.

Of a total of 1,076 votes cast, 649 people were opposed to the
pub and 427 were in favor.

McNeill said he was happy with the way his pub application was
handled by LCLB, the municipalities and airport management but
he isn’t sure people made an informed decision.

“T think the big problem is that people don’t understand what a
neighborhood pub is,” McNeill said. “People thought it would be
a big noisy place with a lot of traffic.”

The pub would seat 65 indoors and an additional 20 outdoors
during summer when a patio is open.

McNeill maintains that a pub with an aviation theme is a good
idea and he doesn’t want to give up on it. Applicants who have
been turned down at the referendum stage can reapply in two years,
he said.

But McNeill isn’t sure if he wants to go through the costly
process again. Rules regarding conducting referendums and
approving neighborhood pub applications have changed.

Now, municipalities have an option to hold a referendum or not.
“1 don’t think that’ll change anything but it might simplify
things,’ McNeill said.

He said that flyers circulated to residents may not have contained
completely accurate information, ‘“‘but I don’t know if it was
detrimental or not. I think people make up their own minds.”
Information McNeill circulated in support of the pub required
LCLB approval.

The proposed location of the pub was on Canora Road directly
across the street from Bowcott Place, on airport land that was to be
leased from Transport Canada.

A Weiler Road resident who helped circulate a Stop The Pub
flyer last year was glad to hear the news. But he said, “I don’t
know what kind of influence we had on the outcome.”

Dave Goulet said: “I’m happy for my children that we won't
have a pub down the road. It shows the democratic process works.”

Goulet said he protested the pub being built because of safety
considerations on Canora Road, with a lack of lighting and proper
street facilities.

Co-applicant Jack McNeill said a sign informing residents of the
referendum was ripped down twice, then once again after four-foot

steel posts were sunk to make the sign secure.

“The third time they threw it in the ditch,” McNeill said.
“Basically, it’s just a disappointment that more people didn’t
agree with us.

“But a referendum is a democratic process and if t ~y don't
want it we have to graciously back out,” McNeill said.

The strata council of the nearby Summergate Village didn’t take
a position on the proposed pub.

meReview

Constituency associations firmly

behind Vander Zalm’s leadership,
local president says after meeting

The provincial Socred constitu-
ency association is relieved Prem-
ier Bill Vander Zalm voiced his
intentions Jan. 17 and plans to
continue work as a united party,
firmly behind Bill Vander Zalm as
leader.

Saanich and the Islands associa-
tion president Mark Dickinson
said a whirl-wind weekend meet-
ing in Richmond between all 52
constituency association presi-
dents and the premier was produc-
tive.

“The management of the Social
Credit party soundly supports the
premier in his determination to
continue on leading the party,”
Dickinson said.

“I’m glad he came out with a
most emphatic decision that he

was Staying and now we can put to
bed the concern that he may be
going,” he said.

Dickinson said the provincial
association’s board came out of
meetings with a positive attitude to
work toward the next general elec-
tion, whenever that could be.

“We know which way the ship is
going and we're all on board,”
Dickinson said.

‘At the end of the meeting we
were all resolved to work very hard
to maintain a position of support to
the premier,” he said.

A difference of opinion is “good
and healthy’ for the party but
members should listen to debate
on an issue, then come to a
consensus about what decision is
best for the party, Dickinson said.

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