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Sewer suit financed by home sale

Paulson prepares
for extended
litigation

by Valorie Lennox —

The Review

A man who blames the Town of
Sidney for sewage flooding his
basement plans to take the munici-
pality to the Supreme Court of
Canada if necessary — and is
selling his home to finance the

Servicing
constrainis

ground
airport growth

by Valorie Lennox
The Review

Limited sewer service and water
supply keep Victoria International
Airport from world-class status,
officials there say.

Airport representatives are
meeting with the Capital Regional
District this week to discuss the
problem, which holds back such
additions to the airport as a hotel.

Time Air, Air B.C and British
Aerospace are among: companies

" interested in seeing an upgraded

Victoria airport, said Des
Easthom, acting airport manager.
Several airport hotel proposals

- have been made, Easthom told
~ North Saanich planning, zoning

and parks committee Jan. 22. A
hotel is in the airport’s land-use
plan but can only proceed after
services are improved.

“T don’t think it will be too far
off,” said Easthom, who is also
manager of commercial develop-
ment and airport services.

The airport contributed to the
Sidney sewer system and, as
requested by North Saanich, has a
five-acre site set aside for a sewage
treatment plant, Easthom said.

The airport plans expansion of
the main terminal building, which
is expected to reach capacity by
1994.

The present terminal was
designed for one million passen-

“gers a year. The airport now han-
dles 750,000 passengers annually.

A planned second storey to the
present terminal will increase
capacity by 500,000 passengers
annually, Easthom said.

The number of aircraft is
expected to double by the year
2000.

As traffic increases, present road
access to the airport will need
upgrading, Easthom said. He
hopes the upgrade of the Pat Bay
Highway planned by the provincial
government will result in better
airport access.

Future possibilities for the air-
port include development as a
maintenance centre for large car-
tiers and also as a centre for small
executive jets.

The national department of def-
ence plans a $2.5 million expan-
sion of its existing hangar,
Easthom said. The helicopter

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lawsuit.
Mike Paulson of 9577 Epco

Drive filed a writ against the
municipality Jan. 18. On the
weekend he listed his home of 10
years with real estate agents.

“Pl be able to afford to fight
them (the municipality) now,”
Paulson said.

Sidney denies responsibility for
the Dec. 3 sewer backup, which
dumped an estimated 800 gallons
of sewage into the basement of the

house. :
Paulson estimates the sewage

did $8,000 damage. The damage,
added to a recent $25,000 home
renovation, puts the family too far
in debt, Paulson said.

“T’m not prepared to go into
debt that far. I can’t afford it,”
Paulson said.

His equity in the home will
cover the renovations, cost of
repairs and allow money for legal
fees.

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He expects to rent a home for
himself, his wife and their three
children.

Two recent court decisions have
held municipalities responsible for
damage caused by broken munici-
pal water and sewer lines.

A June 15 B.C. Court of Appeal
ruling held the City of Vancouver
liable for damage to a sewing
supply store caused by a broken
municipal water line.

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Appeal ups
Allen jail
sentence fo
seven years

for manslaughier

A man convicted of manslaugh-
ter in the killing of Sidney taxi
driver Kenneth Scott will serve
seven years in jail, the B.C. Court
of Appeal ruled Thursday.

Public outrage and petitions
posted in local businesses fol-

lowed the four-year jail sentence 52
given to Michael Allen after the =~

23-year-old Duncan man was ~
found guilty of manslaughter Oct. -

3.

Crown counsel Dirk Ryneveld
appealed the sentence.

The three-member appeal court
agreed unanimously to increase
Allen’s sentence.

Said Justice Richard Anderson:
“The sentence must be such as to
deter others from taking part in

~ such dastardly crimes. Society will

not tolerate these types of crimes.”

Allen is the only adult charged
in the stabbing death of the 66-
year-old taxi driver. Scott’s body
was found in his taxi, parked in
Central Saanich, in the early
moming Oct. 12, 1988.

Three juveniles charged in the
killing will be tried in youth court
June 18. A Crown counsel appeal
to raise the three to adult court
failed in the B.C. Court of Appeal.

Ryneveld is now considering an
appeal to the Supreme Court of
Canada.

Inlet is ‘first proposal’

Parks service
plans assessment

by Keith Norbury
The Cowichan News-Leader

Saanich Inlet is the first site
proposed for a national park
reserve in the Georgia Strait
region, says a Canadian Parks
Service spokesman.

The proposal — from the Saa-
nich Inlet Protection Society,
based in Central Saanich —
comes before the park service has
even begun to assess candidates

for a park in the area, said Barry
Olsen, program manager for South
Moresby/Gwaa Ilaanas.

“The (federal) cabinet has
approved the objective of having a
national marine park and a
national park in every national
region we have identified in Can-
ada,” Olsen said.

Saanich Inlet lies within the
Strait of Georgia, or Marine
Region 5. The region encompasses
tidal waters stretching from Camp-
bell River almost to Juan de Fuca
Strait.

The upland region of Georgia
Strait, known as the Strait of
Georgia Lowlands, includes all the

Gulf Islands, the Sunshine Coast,
the east coast of Vancouver Island,
and the Fraser River estuary. It is
from that area that the parks
service would evaluate candidates
for an upland national park.

The Saanich Inlet Protection
Society is exploring the possibility
of obtaining national marine park
reserve status for the inlet seaward
of the high-tide mark. A park
reserve is an interim step, pending
settlement of native land claims,
given to an area prior to conferring
national park designation.

“Tt’s not an end in itself,’ Olsen

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