YF) BR @ Mortgage Financing & Consulting / Sy 652-5171 NRS Peninsula Properties Audited Circulation 12,968 A Victoria Weeklies Publication Wednesday October 9,1991 40¢ Inside BUSINESS A25 CALENDAR A21 CLASSIFIEDS A30 COMMUNITY A119 GARDENING All OPINION AZ SPORTS A27 OUTDOORS A10 BEYER GRENBY HAMPSON LANG AZT A25 A10 All TOP OF THE PILE A7 SMELLY TSEYHUM Diesel spill in Tseynum Harbour is deemed Too small for Coast Guard Page A5 DRUNKEN DRIVERS A man is jailed for three weeks on an impaired driving charge Page A12 PILOTS REUNION Wartime pilots retum To Patricia Bay for a reunion Gaffer many years Page Al9 EARLY SEASON SOCCER The Stelly’s Stingers thumph against arch rivals in early soccer Page A27 BUSTING THE BOOSTERS Siore detectives make it more Gifficult for Greater Victoria shoplifters in G never-ending job Page BI AWARD-WINNING PAPERS Reporters pick up awards inthe BEYCNA competition Page B3 Review office hours The Review office, at 97'26-First St. in Sidney, is open from 9 am. until-S p.m. Monday through Friday. Mail to Box 2070, Sidney, B.C. V8L 3S5 Second class mail registration number 0128. Changes and approval for OCP despite protest by Glenn Werkman The Review More changes to Central Saa- nich’s official community plan were made at the bylaw stage Monday and several alderman cal- led for its retum to committee for discussion, despite a public hear- ing held Sept. 19. But in the end, council gave final reading to the community plan bylaw with a 4-3 majority. Ald. Arlene Box was the most vocal opponent of the communi- ty’s blueprint for the future, cal- ling it inconsistent and amateurish. “Tt should go back to commit- tee. There are a number of items that are consistent,’ Box said. “We should not end up with a document that some cannot sup- port. (A document) where the wording is particularly amateur- ish.”” Council Monday approved two amendments to the official com- munity plan, known as bylaw 1024. The first was a statement about the effect the golden nemat- ode quarantine has had on the municipality and said: “Council Supports the effort to have the quarantine lifted.” The second amendment stated that “the Brentwood Bay Local Area Plan will include policies for the Tod Inlet area.” Box felt that made the OCP inconsistent because the OCP designates the Tod Inlet area as tural (from residential) and the plan states that only lands with residential designation will be considered in the local area plan process. “We have clearly stated that rural areas would not be consid- ered for development,” Box said. “We’ ve spent going on three years on this. It was a big election issue. Let’s be serious about this so it’s better than the one it supposedly replaces.” Mayor Ted Jones said: “It is not a foregone conclusion that (the Tod Inlet area) will be residential. For all intensive purposes it is a tural piece of land.” Box also said that if the Tod Inlet area was to be considered as a development permit area it must be identified in the official com- munity plan as a Comprehensive Development Area, according to UMA Engineering planner Tom Becker. Council later agreed that if Tod Inlet gets to the development per- mit stage an amendment to the OCP could be done at that time. Box said that 27 people (of 13,000 in the municipality) stood up at the public hearng “and none said they were professional plan- ners.” A motion to table the bylaw until the next planning and zoning Continued on Page A2 Port decision Tuesday, says mayor affer stormy hearing by Girard Hengen The Review Sidney council is expected to decide the fate of the proposed expansion of the Port Sidney Marina next week. The decision will be made with the knowledge that a group of foreshore property owners is com- mitted to taking legal steps to “stall or stop”’ the expansion. Mayor Marie Rosko told a pub- lic hearing Monday that council will likely decide whether to approve rezoning bylaws allowing for Port expansion at a regular council meeting next Tuesday. About 250 people ventured to Sanscha Hall for the second hear- ing on the issue. A first spirited, lively public meeting was held in mid-June, and the second was no different. Arguments raised by boisterous proponents and opponents of expansion in June were repeated again in front of council, who officially were sitting as a commit-. tee of the whole for the hearing. However, another twist to the debate was added by lawyer Ken Stevenson, who said he was put- ting council on notice he repre- sents about 10 property owners living adjacent to the Port and expansion area who are prepared “to use all legal means within our grasp to stall or stop the expan- sion.” This includes possibly going to court to ensure riparian rights are protected. Stevenson said it could also mean challenging the legality of zoning bylaws on the grounds the Town was committed to attaining a lease from the provincial govern- ment for the area of expansion, to be assigned to Port Sidney Marina, before the public hearings took place. : Stevenson said if that is the case, the hearing “can only be called a facade.” The second meeting was deemed necessary by town council after elected officials said they gathered information on the pro- ject in July, after the first hearing. Town staff said rezoning bylaws could be declared invalid in court because new information wasn’t heard at a public forum. Continued on Page Al4 Protester heckled by crowd at first all-candidates forum by Valorie Lennox The Review The candidates weren’t heckled — but a placard-toting, anti- abortion protester was shouted down by the audience at an Oct. 1 all-candidates forum in Sanscha Hall. Anti-abortionist Gordon Watson asked each candidate how much each party would spend on the killing of unborn children if elected to government. “T'd like a ballpark figure, in round millions,” Watson said. “I don’t think that question warrants an answer,’ Liberal can- didate Clive Tanner replied, to a resounding round of applause from the audience. The forum, sponsored by the Sidney Ratepayers Association, drew an estimated 500 people. Four of the candidates did respond to Watson’s question. New Democrat Elsie MecMurphy said women have the right to make their own choices. Family coalition candidate Tho- mas Aussenegg said his party would not spend any money on abortions. Continued on Page A17