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1AM < , _ t Sunday, April 03, 2016 8:43 PM 'Kathleen Haines'; Fabris, Katy; Wells, Ian; , -~ Mayor Hall, Lyn; Councillor Everitt, Frank; Councillor Frizzell, Garth; Councillor Koehler, Albert; Councillor Krause, Murry; Councillor McConnachie, Terri; Councillor Merrick, Jillian; Councillor Scott, Susan; Councillor Skakun, Brian 6161 Otway Road, App #CP100110/RZ100500

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With Respect to All Council Members

Below is a repeat of what I said to Council Members back last November. I have also attached below Kathleen Haines email to each of you.

I can't add too much more than what I said before, but Kathleen Haines - as in her email below - has put more of it in perspective with a history of the Otway Rezoning and turned down by council for good reasons. Now about 16 years later we are fighting this again. I beg of Council to deny any further rezoning from Agriculture into Industrial, as I fee l if you approve this that one day you would regret your decision. As I said before, we have a beautiful River Valley, and to destroy it by adding more Industry than what we already have, and still put up with, would be a big shame.

Yes, although it has improved some, we continue to put up with a lot of gravel remova l noise and of course the continual horrible backup beepers.

To add to this, which I know if this is passed by Council, additional construction will go on as the Rezoning application is right up to Cran brook Hill Rd. - not just a small piece of land. Also remember building a berm does not stop any noise from traveling and echoing along the river valley.

I am not able to attend the public meeting scheduled for Apri l 11-16. I personally suffer horribly from increased noise due in part to a nerve illness, which of course I know is not a rezoning issue, but to continue to live in a beautiful peaceful neighborhood is a plus.

As I said before, I beg of Council to give a close review of why previous Council Members rejected any new Industrial Rezoning on Otway.

Thank You for reading this and I hope and pray that with all that is before you, you will make the right decision. Respectfully Tony Romeyn

Written and sent to Council Members Nov. 2015

"have lived on Riverview Rd. roughly across from the Helicopter pad for nearly 35 years. We choose the property for its amazing scenery and peacefulness. The Nechako River Va lley on the North side has hundreds of homes running from Riverview Rd to Bench Dr., Toombs Dr., North Nechako Rd. and Morning Place. THIS NORTH NECHAKO RIVER & VALLEY should be protected at all cost.

When I view what Rolling Mix is doing to Cran brook Hill, slowly carving out all the gravel and making the view

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look horrible and very damaging.

For many - many years we had to put up with horrible Asphalt Smoke which affected our neighborhood and

our health. The noise was often very bad, even well into the night. One night some years ago, as I was woken by a lot of noise and recorded the sound. The following day after we advised the media, many of our neighbors went t o picket Pitman Asphalt, closing t he driveway fo r a while so trucks could not enter and leave. It took a number of years for some corrections to be made by Pitman, and some things have improved. Although I can see heavy equipment and hear daily noise from backup beepers wit h heavy equipment even now. (Please Please remove the loud BEEPERS and I know there are alternatives)

PLEASE, City Counci l and all others Involved, do not add more Industry, light or heavy to our Nechako River

Valley, Basin" Sincerely Tony Romeyn

Kathleen Haines email re: Written comment request: The rezoning and Official Community Plan amendment for 6161 Otway Road (Application No. CP100110/RZ100500).

Dear Honourable Mayor Lyn Hall and Members of City Council,

The history of this piece of land should be considered when you vote on this application. Please read the attachments to this email.

Previously, applications for soi l removal designations on this property were defeated at 3rd reading when residents convinced city council that soil removal would be extremely disruptive to the neighbourhood. One one occasion City Council members were given a standing ovation by our neighbourhood for defeating a soil removal application. (see attached Citizen article)

Subsequent to this defeat The Official Community Plan came up for review and residents packed North Nechako School to let the City Planner know that the designations 'Light Industrial' and 'Rural Resource' should

be removed from this property. The light industrial designation was then removed from the Official Community Plan because it was deemed to be not compatible with our neighbourhood.

Now there is an attempt to reinstate the 'light industrial' designation on this property. The opposition of residents is understandable. The long history of opposition to industrial development and the need to protect our river valley and aquifer points to the need for a reevaluation of the zoning in this area and a move to parks and other non damaging uses.

THANK YOU, Sincerely, Kathleen Haines phone: -1;

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GRAVEL PROPOSAL 1992

Residents win battle Residents of Riverview Drive

and Bench Drive along the r o11h side of the Nechako River won their case Monday to prevent BCR Propenies from removing gravel directly across the river.

Prince George cil. council - ddt1-..ud an appllcaiion for a soil

removal designation after listening to concerns of a number of resi­dents a1 a public hearing.

The bylaw would have desig­rwed a I 3.4-hcctarc site along the Cranbrook Hill escarpment parcillcl to Otway Rood f O! soil removal as needed in the fururc for devclop­menL

BCR Properties. which owns the land. would have~ obligated to post a $2,SOO bond to ensure the restoration of areas where gravel was rcmo\'td and apply for per• mits as needed. R~ts opposed the move due

to concerns about damage to the escarpment and river valley, noise. pollution. loss of privacy and nsks IO health.

Dr. Donald Bond, a 13-year resi­dent of Nechako Bench, said lhcrc are 24 gravel sites in the area.

"We have in gravel what Saudi Arabia has in oil. Once this land is

Local news

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Prince. GoarJ,e's new Of'fml :O.muauy PIIII 11'011°1 be afTci:11 i:w a& lcmtuor.hcl l WO wocb.

Pnncc Oeot1c aty council pc>SI•

- 1/wd ,adj .. of .. - · ,. bylaw Monday ror more infor• MDC>II on st\·ual an:as of the up,, - pllft. The OCP ii dc<ipod IS a new vision (or 1afMt us • &ht :ity dunng the nut 10 )'UR.

II $(t$ ow rt.,ldtntial and ln­lunaJ desiga.auon,. «>nes and ~lh ~UMl5 a.s -..ell a5 dcalina .... floodplul, • ..., - and "-ns or laod dc"'kipmcnL

~::m:,:s n~ °',/: <O r«~c:,u llalf a dooeG ,poke IUl II the lftCCUDI The. fflOSl debltt CWff (roaa rui­

"21ts hvtt11 on the IOlh bank ul

given up to gravel mining, it's gone forever." Bond told council.

Residen LS asked council to at least delay its decision pending the results of a re.,iew of the city's Official Community Plan if it ~idn •t want to defeat dl:e applica­tion.

Instead. council dcfealed lhinl reading of the application- unani­mously in a bid IO prou:ct river valleys, escarpmCQU and green bc't areas.

Mca: while, there wa, no public opposition to two other public hearings involving rezoning by­laws.

Council appnwed litird reading of an application by Kim Forrest to rewne a site on Wainwright Stteet to multiple from single.­family zoning to allow construe• Lion of a dtrccplex dwelling.

Third and final mading w• ap­proved for rezoning of a lot on Cuddie Crescent ro two-family from urban residential zoning 10 accommodale a duple1t.

Although applicant Lee Se.t­smith has no development plans, he believes the rewning will make the lot m<n markeiablc.

1993 "fllc. Prir.:c Geot1t Ch.facn •

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Gravel pit bid denied, again, by couiifil Resident~ of North Nechako Road

will sleep better knowing the city won't allow a Soil Removal Are.t at a Sandberg Road propeny across the river.

There was loud protest among those living in the area about the possibility of a gr,ivcl pit opcr.1tion, the noisu from which tlk!y claim will take from their quality of life.

About 25 people attended a public hearing on the matter bt:forc City Coun­cil on Monday night and four peopl,!

propcsal :md four people made presenta• lions regarding the application from Denis Hebert, who also owns the contro­versial Evergn:en Mobile Home Park.

One of the presenters, Dr. Donald Bond. gave ;111 "audio-visual" rendition of wh~t it ~, like to live near a gr-.ivel pit operation.

'"The noise can disturb our sleep our rest and our work," said Dr. Bond as he dumped .i small bucket of gravel into a metal 1..>ontaincr to imitate the sound he

gave presentations to cow1<.:il. Then: were would h,;ar at 5 a.m. "We vie~ the pro· 213 signatures on a petition against the p,,,.,l a, a threat to the well-being llf our

homes and families. The gravel mines are in our backyards. Who would recom• mend pulling a gravel mine 350 meters from a subdivision?"

City Council unam.mougly rejected the Soil Removal .\rea, which M,. Bond de<;erihes a.~ a "cuph,:mic,m for so-.ivcl mining.''

The 3.8 hectare: llil'u., . ..,.,t<.!d along OtWll} Road at U1c end o •11lberg Road. wa, ,cccntly purchased , BCR Propc11h Lid. BCR applied to 1wvc the property d,·signatcd as a soil removal area in 1992 but•~ was voted down.

1992 Prince George City Council

._ _____ His Worship Mayor John Backhouse 4783 Meadow Road 11:' ~ 1,,..,/1.

l#'ol!Ht----3 Aldeanan Don Bassetmann 195 McDennid Drive _.r-' / "1.f<")(, <" • ~

Aldennan Monica Becott ~ ~ ,f- , 411 Patricia Blvd. -j

v/4ldennan Rino Fornari 1791 Fifth Avenue -ft' ~will<~"'-'~ : ,. ..

9590 Clrllcotin Road ~ ,,. Alderman Robert ~

--~..i• Cra..l.Qf-oo.

r Aldeanan Colin Kinsley . . 3789 Fairburn Place f.

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by DON SQIAFfllR Qtlzen-11

North N«halco Rood rc,idcnts SoYe Prince George city council an OVdtlon Monday night o!n,r council reje<:n,d • proposal to expand gravel operations II0'05S the mor from their homes.

More th,m 40 ttSidenu of variow neighborhoods located between North Nechako Road and the Nechoko River ftlled the gallery nt dty council chambers to hear coun­cil's deliberation, about • proj)OS'1! by landowner Denis Hc:ben to excract gravel from a 3.8-ht>eture ~reel of land recently purchos,d behind Otway Rood.

The group Bled out of the rountil meedng all smiles .orter the ununl-

mou.s ~jcc11on of the propos~I. \.vhich would have allowt!!d Ht.- hcn to upand the oper;1tlons of u11 utuu tion operation th11t is con• sumtly undt"r firt> from l't'!ll· dents M.ross the ri\'1:r.

ell to oppose these proposals. It's a nl..-<l''-"J,Yt•vll.

I 71gre.:: ,,1th tht• mayor; Kond \-tid, "'PcOJl\l! IHh-.t tht" rJgtn 1u ;apply (for thf• t'ltl nctfon J>ermlH)." Mayor CoHu Kmsl,.y and Conn. Cliff Dezell both defended the? right of 1hc: owm•,,, tu ('f)'l)l hd11tt ccw1 di nntl ask to c:xp~md their ht:Jtn~ (..:

Or. Donald Bond, whose entertaining prescntntion against the proposal included demonstrnrions or backup beepers, SJod hitting th1.• bccJ of an "ntpt)' dumptruck .ind the effoct of the river valley walls on noise Jtenc-r:ucd

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acroJs 1he uvcr from hi.s bomt'. was p1en~ with the outcome.

"I'm very happy," U\luJ s:,,d, odding that while It's :innuyti11r H> hr.vtt rn con'M" 1,•pc.ut:dlt bdorc c,,un

.hou1,ht C,1el. I Wi'l:.h Wt hndn't don<' 1h.u t wi.J1 """ l.adn't .ipp10\t:1I thnt.' \.'hrther u J ,:, 31-wcl pit or .1 hdi• , op1.1·r n~•rntion ur wnntl'\·cr," l.X:1ell 'kllJ. ·:,unh'l.11\t~'> councils hnh· m.nl,•

decisions that Wf.re bod on the face of th~m or tun,ed out to be bod.

'"Thtt otht>t Issue lhnt annoys peo­pk In a nri,thborhood 11 thJt they hr1,1l: to k, ep roming back. becuusc ft h ltgal for these people to make npphauions And again, I don't th.ink you want nny fnrm of government to 1ny to nnyon~. mdMdunl or business, I don·, wJut to hear from you nny n1ore. p>u c..:m't rome back."

"I'm .1 J>Toponent of d,welopment. but 1uttnlnoblt: development," Klnslty .. ,d ·rm no< sure, this oppll­~;itron would qunli(y fol thuL"

Sc,,cr.it rc~ldenu spoke nga1n11 th.: np1d1carlon, coc:h dung noise, potentlJ I di,mngce to vit:wscape: and bl~1ory 1n ,up,pott of their oppo3,rion.

Letter to BCR requesting a park on lot 1531 in 1992

N=rth Nechak= B ench Residents, R.R. #4, Site 28, Comp. 34,

November 16, 1992

B.c . Rail Real Estate, P . 0 . Box 8 77 0 , Vancouver, B.C. V6B 4X6

Prince George, B.C. V2N 2J2

Attention: Hr. Brad Cooper, Manager of Property Development and Municipal Relations

Dear Sir:

I am writing with respect to your property District Lot 1531, situate in the City of Prince George, in the Nechako Bench area.

In February of 1992, after listening to the concerns of residents living in the North Nechako area, the Prince George City Council unanimously d efeated B.C.R. Properties' application for a s oil removal designation. The people in the North Nechako area saw this as a step forward in an attempt to protect river valleys, escarpments, view sites and greenbelt areas.

North Nechako Area residents have a long history of opposing gravel removal permits. To put an end to this constant battle we are asking B.C.R. properties to donate the land to the City to be used as a park for recreational purposes (hiking and cross-country skiing). (The lease of Okanagan Helicopters would remain in piace). This is a beautiful piece of property, bordering on the Nechako River. Such a donation would help preserve our river valley and would be very much appreciated by area residents and all others who are concerned with maintaining the natural beauty of our City.

12 - n.e PrinceOeo!aeC,uun - Wcdncsdoy, Mardi, , 1992 The one we lost: A portion of the greenbelt area was denuded last month.

City council Boxscore

-The Question ......... ........ - - .,._., -- - ~ -· ... ., .... Aj>po!nl city c:ltf1< Jonmtr Fomtt u relutnlng olllcer lo, o civic ~ IO bo held May 2 (H.Wns/Martin - tamed) Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Absent AflpmVe lhlrcl ,.acing of • soll ....., ... byllw IO exlrlld gra..i l,om • Ille on Sancl>efg Road. (Bocon/Mar11n - carTled) Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Absent ~ _,,, ,.acing ol a bylaw to rezone the comer of Fillh A........,.lbo, 8oulovorcl ro conwnen:ial (Basurmal'M(Jnsley - canted) Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Absent