• :.. , ....... ,., ....... ~-/.~. - . : : 'lie, .._,"--"~_ ,,~'~.. ~ .~ ~,/,.- .... F'ar'].iam~nt Building~ /' i Vi ~tot"i ~ B.C. u m VSV 1X4 OT NCU TFN ent m ,~ vVlkqkiViil NORTHERNBC~ WINTERGAMES m The provincial government joins the J w s Nisga'a land settlement negotiations... >r OFFICIAL ' but the big news is that the negotiations ._ _ SPONSOR are.going to become public--- page A3 q I WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1990 . ?,r~" Vol. 6, Issue No. 42 z, Phone 635-7840 Fax 635-7269 | I There goes the neig'hbourhood TERRACE m An irate group of the northeast corner of the Thomas about 20 bench area and North St. Dairy Ave. intersection. Terrace residents approached Ter- The problem is what the new race city council Monday night, landowner, Roba Holdings, appears but with no easy answers at hand to be doing with his newly they were promised a meeting acquired 80-acre plot of land w instead. The Planning and Public clear-cut logging. Residents, armed Works Committee •will host this with• a couple of letters and a meeting at noon on Wednesday, p~tition with 48 signatures, told Oct. 24 and among the invited council they were frustrated and guests will be concerned residents, angry because they haven't been environment and forestry repre- able to find out what Roba's inten- sentatives, and the new owner of tions are for the land or what they an 80-acre parcel of land located can do to stop the logging if those entirely within the city limits on continued on page A,?. Debt fixer in works for Shames The Ministry of Municipal Council's representative to the next ,:.,. Affairs has told the Kitimat-Stikine regional district meeting on Oct. Regioual District that the Shames 27 will offer a new deal. No pay- ...~ :,. Mountain Ski Corporation's share menUs of any kind for two years conversion idea can't be done. (interest would be charged, how- Minister hyaU Hanson confirmed ever), interest payments only for that in Terrace Sept. 25, but he the next three years, and then a 10- added there might be a way year repayment schedule that through a carefully-worded refer- would see the Shames regional endure. district debenture paid off in the That, however, could take a year 2005. In effect, this means considerable length of time, and Shames would owe nothing to the time is one thing that Shames regional district until the TIDA Mountain does not have. A loan was paid off. $502,000 federal-provincialTourist Mayor Jack Taistra describes the Industry Development Assistance proposal as a "very generous" offer Loan was approved some time ago, but adds that it is probably a com- but this necessary funding is on promise on both sides. And , . .,+:', • hold pending a single event -- the besides, "It's a very good eco- retirement, in some way, of a nomic project for Terrace." All $313,650 debenture held by the city aldermen, with the exception •. :~ " .,~ ~i~:~' Regional District of I~timat- of Me Takhar, who was not at the Stlklne. meeting, agreed tO the proposal That was the reason for the share t,,, ~ Monday night. conversion proposal in the first There are still a few hurdles, place. If that proposal had gone however. Kitimat city council •through it would have satisfied the ~, g~ . ..~ ~,. looked at the proposal in.camera one remaining condition for the on Oct. 9 but reserved a decision TIDA loan. It would have placed • ~-i until their Oct. 22 meeting pending them at the top of the collection more information from Shames list if Shames Mountain were to Mountain. If Kitimat does approve run into financial difficulty. the same proposal, the idea still This fellsr-bunchsr went to work down the hill from Pat and Sue Casey's home off Woodland Terrace city council has approved has to be approved by the regional Park Dr. last week. It was an indication that things aren~ going to be the same for long in the rural a Committee of the Whole re- district, and that probably won't neighbourhood. commendation, though, and finan- happen until their next meeting on ii ii i i cial help may be on the way. Oct. 27. .::,A2 Terrace Review-- Wednesday, October 17, 1990 . ........ '~. f? ....... + Neighbourhood: -.-,m~" ....i~,-~+..,,:,.~ + / Continued from page A1 intentions aren't considered to be logging within municipal boun- beneficial to their neighbourhood. daries, other than the clean-up, and Is it going to be a subdivision -- the city can't stop a land owner one was turned down on the same from clearing his land. The only property only last spring --or solution was a meeting of all perhaps the site of the new correc- parties involved to sort the situ- tions centre, or left as an eyesore... ation out. , a stump farm. Apparently no one One problem,, hdwever, is that knows. Some residents believe Roba has told some residents in Roba is simply going to "log and the area that it will only lake two run", leaving behind soil erosion, weeks to log the 80 acres. He changes in winds and weather began on Oct. 11 and it is there- patterns and reduced property fore safe to assume the clearing Numerous loads of small-diameter logs have been passing through Terrace in recent weeks. They values. will be complete on Oct. 25... one coming from logging operations in the Rosswood area, destined for the Northwood sawmill in The delegation was told, how- dayafter the meeting, It's just Houston. That timber was cut by the same oper=or now working on District Lot 978 in Terrace. ever, •that the Ministry of Forests possible, say some residents, that doesn't have anything to do with Roba may already have left town. Subdivision prospects sketchy for logged area by Michael Kelly off the lot, leaving trees in the area there is nothing in the municipal with the previous plan included of the creek intact. They'll go back with that kind of thing," he added. bylaws to prevent or regulate log- difficult access to the north side of TERRACE ---People living in and pile and burn the slash next Asked if another • subdivision ging activities on private land. the creek for fire protection and the densely forested Spring Creek spring or summer, he said. proposal would meet the same fate, Hallsor concluded by saying that the cost of road maintenance. area awoke one morning last week When asked about his intentiom Hallsor said that wouldn't neces- he was in the process of writing a "They said the lot owners would sarily bathe case. "It+ would to the roar of machinery and the for land after it is dear-cut, letter to Roba advising them that crunch of falling trees. A large guarantee road maintenance, but depend on what they want to do. Armwsmith said, "We'll probably under municipal bylaws they are vacant lot in the centre of the rural we didn't want to get involved They haven't talked to me." chop it up and sell it. I've heard not allowed to do anything that residential area had become the m m lots of interestin it." He confirmed would impede a waterway, affect stage for a logging show. that Roba intends to subdivide it, the water quality for downstream Roy and Ingrid Whittington, Pat although he hasn't developed a users, or build a bridge across the and Sue Casey and other owners proposal. "We've been feeling out creek without a permit. ARE YOU A of property adjacent to the 30- the city about water and roads, Don Cobum, Terrace zone hectare lot began seeking informa- working with Dick Evans." Evans forester for the Kalum District DIABETIC PATIENT? tion as a feller-buncher and a is a Terrace real estate agent. "We office of the B.C. Forest Service, loader continued to clear the area. haven't done much subdividing," said the ministry only requires that A group of about 40 of them met he said. the logger's timber mark be regis- at the Whittington home off After being advised of the com- Woodland Park Dr. in Terrace tered so the logs can be identified plaints from neighbouring property when transported or sold, and that North, a petition was drawn up, owners, Arrowsmith professed and• they went to a meeting of the dash left after logging do~n't surprise. "Everyone we talked to present a fire hazard. Terrace city council Monday night i, + was happy about it," he said, but This is not the first time a sub. seeking the city's position on the admitted that the company had division has been considered for ¢. situation. talked to only two residents. "It's the lot. Terrace surveyor Don The lot in question, District Lot the same old story, people bitch Highe took the idea to the city last 978, spans both banks of Spring and complain about progress. year, with the 10t divided into 10, Creek and has lain idle for decades Anyone who wants to buy it [the 2.5-hectare plots facing onto 'a while rural residential development property] can give us a call, and greenbelt around the creek. has grown up on its perimeter. then you willwant to we'll stop logging right away." "It wasn't a formal proposal," Ownership of the lot changed at City administrator Bob Hallsor Highe said. "I drew a sketch and know about... the end of August, and the new said Friday that his first contact sent it to the city administrator. He owners, Roba Holdings of Prince with the situation was when said, 'no' and gave several reason; Glucometer ® G.X.