http://www.bclocalnews.com/
Notable quote:
“The Dogwood Initiative army are at home eating peanut butter and jelly sandwiches until school starts in the fall,” said Hicks. “The e-mails have stopped since school has been out. I imagine they are trying to delay this until the election in November (and a new land use committee), then the Dogwood can come out and chase me around.”
Mike Hicks: Vancouver Island's most childish politician |
Mike Hicks' cell phone number is 250-216-5802 (feel free to sling insults - he started it!) and his e-mail address is directorjdf@crd.bc.ca
Geoff Young and Graham Hill, chair and vice-chair of the Capital Regional District, met with Ida Chong, the community development minister. They were asking again that the province allow the whole board to vote on zoning decisions like in the rural resource lands between Sooke and Port Renfrew.
Ida said no, refusing again to right the wrong that was done to the park and to regional planning decisions when the province released that land for development three years ago. (More notes from Geoff Young's interview below).
The next meeting of the CRD baord is THIS WEDNESDAY JUNE 29. We will know Friday if the resort vote is on the agenda or if it needs more staff review.
Here's one more idiotic quote from Mr. Hicks:
This is his argument for approving a massive development of over 260 private homes - protect the area from development by developing it! Stop others from destroying the natural beauty by destroying the natural beauty! Because current zoning allows 7 homes and/or logging on the property, we should instead protect the land by allowing MORE development and MORE logging?Exposing the Juan de Fuca Trail to development may, in an ironic way, preserve the uniqueness and beauty of the trail. That’s the opinion of Juan de Fuca Electoral Area regional director Mike Hicks. He says denying the re-zoning would leave the trail and park exposed to the present zoning and inevitable development.He states, “present zoning woud allow a clear cut fom the highway to the park boundary and opportunity for gravel extraction. It would also allow for each of the seven separate lots to have a dwelling built within 15 metres of the park boundary, outbuildings seven metres from the park boundary, and a collection of sawmills, boats, trailers, trucks, dogs and everything great and part of rural living.”
Mike Hicks is certainly not being very respectful of those who are opposed to this development.
ReplyDeleteNo he most certainly is not!
ReplyDeleteWe've been playing nice, but Mike Hicks wants to play hardball. Well, we can do that too