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Surrey council teeter-totters
Developer threatens sanctuary
It's unlikely that the splendiferous plans Bold International Realty Enterprises has for a marina on Surrey's Mud Bay will conform to any of three development schemes the Greater Vancouver Regional District proposed to the provincial government in a Boundary Bay development statement.
The GVRD as well as the provincial government must assent before Surrey council, which first rescinded and then reaffirmed its approval in principle of the developer's plans, can give its own final approval.
Regional district land planner Rick Hankin suggests that in all three regional schemes — arrived at through a joint study between the regional district and the municipalities of Surrey, Delta and White Rock—Mud Bay and vicinity is visualized as a conservation sanctuary.
"It is so outstanding an estuary for waterfowl, migratory fish and other marine life," he commented. "The Nicomekl and Serpentine rivers have lots more potential than is realized ... I can't see the present proposal fitting into the three schemes."
In 1970 a development proposal that would have reclaimed 3,000
acres of crown foreshore to accommodate 70,000 people was rejected by the government. The regional district at that time went on record favoring retention of the whole of Boundary Bay, including Mud Bay, for recreational purposes.
The 1972 policy statement — which was submitted to the provincial government but so far has brought no reply — also proposed the setting up of a Boundary Bay Commission by the government in co-operation with the three municipalities and the regional district.
"The intent was that the commission would ascertain what kind of scheme would be most acceptable, and then a specific 10-year plan would be drawn up for the improvement of access, recreational facilities, and ensuring protection of the area's natural attributes," Hankin explained.
Bold International has its eye on Lot 495, a 145-acres tract of marsh and tidal water north of the Nicomekl River, where it would like to build a marina, tennis courts, overnight camping facilities, yacht club, a restaurant-hotel and have maybe even a customs post at the site.
Conservationists claim the project would be disaster. The director of environmental studies at Douglas College, Dr. Barry Leach, is chief spokesman. He says Bold International's development would put an end to the area as prime fish and wildlife reserve.
Even advocates of the development concede it would effectively ruin the area's ecology. But, they say, people have priority over wild nature.
The three alternate schemes set out in the 1972 policy statement varied from heavy emphasis on conservation and minimal emphasis on recreational development, to the opposite. "It was not black and white," Hankin pointed out. "But you could consider a a resort hotel as recreational use only at its extreme limit."
The regional district's official plan shows the Mud Bay area as a "limited use reserve area" and an amendment to this would be required before Surrey could re-zone it to include a hotel or other commercial use — the type of development Bold International has in mind.
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FINNING
Surrey's Aid. Jim Karpoff, one of the four aldermen who have voted against development of the site, says Bold International will likely apply to have the area re-zoned and then bring formal proposals to the advisory planning commission and council.
On October 15 aldermen voted five to four in favor of rescinding the previous week's decision to kill the development proposal, with Mayor Bill Vander Zaim breaking the tie.
Aid. Karpoff predicts that he and at least three other aldermen will continue to fight the development proposal.
Leading municipal opponent of Bold International's proposals, Surrey alderman Jim Karpoff, says the next move is Bold's.
Application for rezoning will have to be placed before the municipal planning department — "and then we hope to be able to shoot them down," Karpoff told The Fisherman.
He doesn't think the application will come before November 17, date of the municipal election in which the Mud Bay controversy has become quite an issue, particularly in the south Surrey peninsula. '
Aldermen Karpoff, Ron Ross, Don Ross and Bob Wenman all have voted against the proposals. Of them Karpoff says only he and Ron Ross are "diametrically opposed" to Bold. Don Ross has voted both ways so far and Wen-man is "sort of saying he is in favor of a marina but maybe not in that location."
Karpoff, Ron Ross and Don Ross are seeking reelection November 17.
Karpoff's opposition is twofold. The type of development Bold is proposing will "irrevocably" .damage the area's salt marshes and will have a devastating effect on bird and marine life. The proposals call for dredging hundreds of thousands of yards of fill, he says. "There's just no way you can tell me that isn't going to disturb the ecology: it's not as if they're going to do minor construction."
Secondly, Bold's application has been handled improperly, he feels.
"It was brought directly to council when it should have gone first to the planning department and the advisory planning commission who could have evaluated it and made their recommendations to council."
He ascribes the unorthodox procedure to fear of opposition to the proposals by planning bodies.
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