News Tots A PLAY AREA PASTURE eee EXISTING HOUSES PASTURE PLAN DEPICTS ena Little League multi-diamond facility on leased airport land. Liffle League will begin fundraising with a goal of $50,000 for the project. See story Page AI6. Port expansion waiting for environmental impact study by Girard Hengen The Review Provincial officials who have to grant a license before the Port Sidney Marina can expand are waiting on other agencies to deci- de if they will conduct environ- mental impact studies of the pro- posed expansion. The Ministry of Lands and Parks has to issue a license of occupation to the Town of Sidney before development can begin. After receiving a license, the Town would then lease the area to Granville West Capital Corp., the Port developer. The Town applied for a license in late 1990. But first, the area had to be rezoned. The controversial expansion proposal received rezoning last fall after a narrow 4-3 vote of council members. The issue divided the communi- ty into supporting and opposing camps, and was the subject of two spirited public hearings on the rezoning application. Max Nock, manager of land administrator with the ministry, said in an interview that the gov- ernment has received a new devel- opment plan for the marina which has been changed from a previous- ly submitted plan. The proposal reduces the expan- sion area from 3.5 hectares to 2.9 hectares, he said. It eliminates about eight fingers from the origi- nal, and moves the main dock and dredged channel slightly to the east away from upland properties. The plan has been referred to a ~ number of agencies, which have to decide whether to study the envir- onmental impact of the project. “We're waiting to hear back from those groups,” said Nock. They include the Coast Guard, federal department of fisheries and oceans, provincial environment ministry and others. Nock said replies are expected shortly. If a study is deemed necessary, the Lands and Parks Ministry would likely wait until it was completed before making a decision on a license. He said a study could call for changes in the proposed plan, changes which a developer may not be prepared to make. Meanwhile, upland property owners have vowed to fight the rezoning, challenging it in the courts if necessary. They may decide to claim that - their riparian rights have been infringed, or challenge the legality of the rezoning bylaws approved by council. Three-lane to cosi more Provincial Highways Ministry officials say the Town of Sidney will have to pay the full shot if Beacon Avenue is reduced to three lanes. In a letter to council Monday, district technician R.E. Webb said the ministry has some concerns about the plan, recommended in a Town-commissioned study by Graeme and Murray Consulting. The study said the concept, with a centre turn lane and two through lanes (plus two parking lanes), is adequate for 20 years for the Town’s section of Beacon, from First Street to Fifth. The province has jurisdiction over Beacon from Fifth to the Pat Bay Highway. Webb, in the letter, wrote: “The ministry continues to have prob- lems supporting a reduction in capacity on Beacon Avenue.” The Graeme and Murray report might be based on flawed traffic figures, he suggests. And, he writes, “If the munici- pality wished to implement this project then the ministry should have to spend no capital money to construct three lanes, or to con- struct four Janes in the future.” Council agreed with a staff rec- ommendation to hold off making a decision until the completion of the OCP review. CENTRAL SAANICH CULTURAL CENTRE in the ee of Brentwood Activity Rooms Available for Rent Call 652-4444 for info. 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