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James Island Road resident pressure council

~ Residents of James Island Road .
won't get their day in court to
prevent the use of a parking lot
near their homes as a Staging area
for the development of James
Island. ~

Central Saanich had the munici-

' pality’s lawyer do an examination

for discovery and decided not to
pursue the legal action further,
municipal clerk George Sawada
said.

An agreement between Central
Saanich and the lot’s owner,
Pacific Parkland Properties Inc.,
has been signed which restricts the
amount of parking on the lot.

“It’s unlikely that if we were to
pursue this legally we would have
much success,” Sawada said:

Central Saanich police, recently.
indicated. that.Parkland Pacific
hasn’t breached a long- -standing
agreement. not to fill the lot with.
more than 30° ‘vehicles, he said.

James Island Road residents told

council Feb. 10 that the peace and
tranquility of their neighborhood
has been shattered by the move-
ments of large commercial vehi-
cles that use the parking lot.
- “It seems like a truck route or a
truck ferry has been unloaded
sometimes,” T. Gordon Aberdeen
said.

And residents fear the problem

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will get worse when the proposed
development of James Island
Swings into high gear, said Am
Van Iersel of the Peninsula Envir-

‘onmental Protection Society.

“Our case is going to get worse
and worse as more and more
parking takes place,” he said.

“Why would the municipality
be scared off by Pacific Parkland
in that it would cost the municipal-
ity to defend its bylaws?”

A non-conforming clause to a

zoning bylaw is being abused by —

Pacific Parkland, he said.

Van lersel said the developer has
continued to park commercial
vehicles on its small lot at the end
of James Island Road even though
the clause lapsed some time ago.

However, Ald. Arlene Box said
the non- -conforming use of the lot

said that the lot would be the back
door to James Island,” Van Iersal
said.

Councils’s planning and zoning
committee decided to set up a
meeting between the municipal-
ity ’s lawyer and concerned James
Island Road residents to consider
possible solutions to the problem.

doesn’t preclude ‘the parking” of ff

= commercial - vehicles

Residents also’ fear a stretch of
road: near the lot will become
clogged with parked cars belong-
ing to residents of James Island
when the development is com-
pleted.

They said Pacific Parkland must
find another staging area for move-
ment to and from the island so as
not to disrupt their lives even
more.

“(Pacific Parkland) has always

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