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OCP comparison possible

Amendments to Central Saa-
nich’s official community plan
were finalized Wednesday by Cen-
tral Saanich’s planning and zoning
committee.

Committee chairman Ald. Clar-
ence Bolt said: “We've taken the
OCP itself and noted the deletions
and additions so you can pick up
on the proposed amendments
within the text itself.”

Committee members made
minor changes Wednesday in a
session intended “to have council
respond to the consolidated ver-
sion,” Bolt said. The consolidated
version 1s available for residents’
perusal, Bolt said.

“People can see exactly what is
changed and what isn’t.”

Council May 6 decided that the
official community plan docu-
ment, as amended, will go to the
pubic information stage and,
further, that an amending bylaw be
prepared.

The proposed amendments were
the subject of extended discussion
by council members over past
months. During discussion April

22 at least one alderman was ~

getting frustrated.

“Here again we appear to be
going around the mulberry bush,”
said Ald. Arlene Box.

“We've gone through this so
many times I’ve got blue ink on
my red ink on my pencil and we
seem to be going back to the
beginning again,” Box said.

The committee was discussing
changes in wording proposed by
council’s advisory planning com-
mission.

Many of the over six pages of
changes related to clearer word
usage. “It looks imposing but a lot
of the changes are just minor little
points,” Bolt said.

-Box also had a concern about
the time the district 1s spending to
complete its official community
plan review, suggesting the review
could be completed just in time to
Start another.

“We've been planning for two

years now and it could-be three _

years,” Box said. The Local Arca
Plan process will begin in earnest
this spring.

But committee approved a rec-
ommendation that the next OCP

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review will begin five years from
the date of this review’s comple-
tion.

Two local area plans, one cach
for Saanichton-Kealing and Bren-
twood Bay, should begin in June
following an expected public
mecting, then a public hearing,
into the OCP amendments.

Reviews of draft local area plans
will likely be available in July and
August and bylaw public hearings
would follow in September,
municipal clerk George Sawada
said.

Equipment stolen

An Eli-brand concrete laser
transit was stolen from a company
van parked inside a garage in
Brentwood Bay between April 1
and May 1, Central Saanich police
said.

The transit is yellow in color,
valued at $5,000 and looks similar
to a Surveyor ’s transit, police said.

Those with information about
this crime or any other crime are
asked to call CrimeStoppers at
386-8477 or Central Saanich
police:

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Helicopter hearing set .E

A public hearing into expansion
of helicopter operations at Depart-
ment of National Defense property
at the Victoria Airport will be held
May 22 in the Nell Horth room of
the Sidney-North Saanich Library
on Resthaven Drive in Sidney.

The department plans to double
the number of helicopters using
the airport to 12 from six, intro-
ducing a new shipbome aircraft to
the area.

The new aircraft will require
new and expanded hangar space,
maintenance facilities, increased
administration, improved fuel stor-
age and a helicopter jetty in Pat

Bay.

Although the new helicopters
are larger than the Sea King heli-
copter, a preliminary report by,
environmental research associates
LGL Limited suggests improved
design makes the helicopters qui-
eter.

A copy of the LGL report is
available at North Saanich and
Central Saanich municipal halls
and at the Sidney-North Saanich
Library for perusal.

Department of National Defence
staff and consultants will be avail-
able to answer questions from 7
until 9 p.m.

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