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Funding for park doesn't end fight, activist
declares |
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People: |
Sandborn, Debra |
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Author(s): |
Jeff Bell |
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Section: |
News |
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Publication title: |
Times - Colonist. Victoria, B.C.: Apr 26,
1994. pg. 1 |
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Full Text (308 words) |
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(Copyright Times Colonist (Victoria) 1994) by Jeff Bell
- Times-Colonist staff Government funding for a park at Glencoe Cove is
delightful but the fight isn't over yet, says Friends of Glencoe Cove
spokeswoman Debra Sandborn. The New
Democrat government announced last week that it will purchase 3.31 hectares
of waterfront for parkland at the cove. However,
Sandborn said there are lingering concerns over zoning and land-use issues.
She is urging area residents to attend a public hearing on those items at
7:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Garth Homer Centre auditorium. Sandborn
pointed out the parkland purchase is contingent on municipal approval of
rezoning and subdivision plans. "That means the public process is still
going on, so we need the people who have worked so hard on this to come out
and show their support for the remaining issues," she said. She said
Stanrick Group, the developers of 16.4 hectares around Glencoe Cove, seems
responsive to public concerns. But several things that still need to be
"fine-tuned," she said. For example,
care must be taken in protecting views and sensitive natural areas, she said. "We
would like to see development managed in an environmentally sensitive way and
see covenants set up so that things are set down in black and white. The $4
million in waterfront bought at Glencoe Cove will be part of a three-pronged
addition to the government's Commonwealth Nature Legacy. Saanich will put up
$750,000, with the balance from provincial coffers. In addition,
two other pieces of Saanich property - 13 and 1.5 hectares near Panama Hill
and Haro Woods respectively - will be preserved through land-transfer
agreements between Saanich and the province. Sandborn said
the Glencoe purchase "represents an excellent opportunity for a
greenway. "If you
start at Glencoe Cove, other than climbing over a few rocks at Cormorant
Point, you can walk the shoreline all the way to Sidney." |