: News by Glenn Werkman The Review — Growth pressures facing the Town of Sidney should be dealt with through continuing public input to official community plan amendments and by hiring a town planner, retired planner and Sidney resident Rod Clack told a meeting of the Sidney Ratepayers Associa- tion last week. “1 don’t intend to be unduly critical of the present council because I have a great respect for those in elected office,” Clack told over 60 association members in Sanscha Hall Wednesday. “The problem rises when they think they can do it all by them- selves,” Clack said. “We may be facing that kind of situation where there is a reluctance to go out and listen.” Clack explained what an official community plan is and said that, once adopted, it is not contingent on council to carry it out but it is incumbent for a council not to go against it. The OCP can be revised and that process involves complete input from people in the commun- ity, he said. “My observation is that this is not being carried out too effective- ly,” Clack said. “Here is the threat and it is a gigantic one. “At the moment, Sidney with its OCP, anticipates that in the next 10 years we will develop with multi-family dwellings predomi- nantly. At the same time there will be only 40 single-family dwellings but at the end of the 10-year cycle we will have room for 440 multi- family dwellings left.” He made a comparison to North Saanich’s OCP, which calls for a deficiency of 300 single-family units at the end of its OCP projec- tion. “We can’t put a moratorium on growth but it is possible to revise the OCP — we can change it downwards,’ Clack said. “We can change the mix and reduce the pressure (of development) that way , but we need a dedicated council and a vocal public.” Clack said he doesn’t subscribe to the “inevitability scheol” but If you're NEW IN TOWN and don't know which way to turn, call the ~Welome Wigan. LTD: You'll be glad you did. hestesses at: (Sidney & North Saanich) Theresa Thom 656-7746 Claudia Parfitt 656-7898 (Brentwood & Central Saanich) Frances Suddaby 652-7767 Vicky Jackson 652-5689 (Baby Welcome) Fern Gifford 656-8932 Welcome Wagon Answering Service 479-3385 prefers that the Peninsula form a Peninsula preservation society to promote quality growth instead of quantity of growth. “We need to go to a specialist in urban design ... and move immedi- ately to review the OCP and deal with it on a basis of slow growth — recognizing the fact that on this part of the Peninsula there is a reservoir of marvelous talent, and this should be called upon. “It’s there for the taking but no one’s big enough to admit that someone knows it better than they do.” On the planned interchange for the Beacon Avenue-Pat Bay High- way, Clack wamed of a potential danger that more traffic will be coming into Sidney than the town can absorb. “The highways department did a good snow job on the local council,” Clack said, adding that he can’t blame the highways department because they are pro- fessionals who were just doing their job. “What we're talking about is a total discretion of needs,” Clack said. “That’s one more pressure to urbanize the density of Sidney.” Fielding questions from the audience, Clack opposed the option given to Jocal councils by the province to waive public hear- ings on rezoning applications if the application conforms to the official community plan. “Elect a council that unde- rstands the public has to be part of the planning process,” he said. One speaker complained that residents can’t defend themselves at the “fence level’ any longer. “We used to have a last course of defence. Since it’s been changed FRE FOR TWO WEEKS = NOW Try the newest in Contact Lenses sidney needs more inpuf, planner — Clack you can protest till you get blue in the face — we’ve lost that right— new if it’s in the OCP it’s game over.” Another member of the audi- ence asked: “What are the chanc- es of a retired planner running for mayor?” Another asked, “If a new mayor and council was elected, could we stop this interchange?”’ Clack responded it was possible if the new council made the issue a “crusade.” Various members of the audi- ence spoke of writing to local MLAs and the Highways Minister. The association then passed a motion to create a committee of three people to approach provin- cial authorities “regarding the unsuitability of the overpass.” Association member Chuck Harvey said: “I can tell you what’s going to happen right now. The minister will say it’s way too late, the decision’s been made it’s all been decided. “My personal opinion is if you want to make waves, do it through the media — I’m trying to save you time — Mr. Vander Zalm and his friends don’t like the media,” Harvey said. i As the meeting wrapped up, association president Jim Lang would not allow mayoralty candi- date and association member Arthur Gregg to make a campaign — speech, despite repeated attempts and although Gregg had one pre- pared. Instead, Gregg thanked Clack for his speech. “I think your speech is bang on. It’s only a pity that (Clack’s) speech will not be more widely reported than it will be.” — contact lenses y never clean .. . you just throw them away! Do you find cleaning and disinfecting your lenses bothersome or time consuming? Would you like the con- venlence of always having a Spare set of lenses on hand in case of loss or damage? 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