10 ~ North Shore News — Wednesday. October 11, 2000

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Dear Editor:

: RD did solicit input

on recreational tall ~- Qet |
letter.

Ino response te Lorne
Milne’s detemse of the GVWD
recreational trail public input
process, P attended the public
meetings on le subject as he
peinted out and he should
remember that { specitically
taiscd siting concerns and
spoke about watching for and
protecning artificts frenn tite
old Lillooet Trail and the
Importance of our old west her-
itage. 1 pointed out at the ime
that the archacological report
was deficient in that it was onh
mandated to imentery native
historical artifacts though it did
mention there were other set
dement artifacts along the
rotite,

So the GVRD did give the
public oppornunitizs 10° speak
during the process but the
problem is that the GVBD did
not Jisten when it came to
implementation. As the GVRD
came across remnants of the
original corduroy | structures,
they buried it rather than going,
around it.

The importance of the orig:

~ inal trail corridor is because the

likely place tor carly seztlers te
tere w their garbage as along
the onty wagon road up the val
lev, One hundred) vears: Later
these items toyed on the side

of the trail become antitacts of

an earher age and have value to
the public now. The Cower
Sevmour Conservation Reserve
is owned by the public so what
better place to protect that his
tory,

Fecan sce why Mr Mane,
trom the Inline Skate Patrol, is
happy with the | planning
process since he received every:
thing he asked far, namely a
newly built. nine-kilomenre
long, six-metre wide, paved
roadway for use by inine

skaters and evelists along side -

the existing 10 kdometre fong,
sinometre wide, pwed roadway
that will have limited access
over the next few vears due to
CONSEFUCTION activities.

Pomade a presentation two

Years ago on behalf of SPEC

when the roadway proposal was
first brought forward and sug:
vested that a cheaper and less
impacting alternative was to
widen the existing pavement on
the present mainline road with
a bypass at Hydraulic Creek
rather than build a new one.

buried ot

Thus was nyeetedd dw the
politiggans who went cor the
MQED OpuOn of a new sepanite
roudway, After the GVRD
committed ttelf t0O0 a) second
paved readway we attended the
meenngs with Mr Milne and
agreed in principle with inuch
of what was said except] added
the warning about heritage fa
tures and was told by st aff that

they would wateh out tor her-

wtires fke remaants of

4 Tradl and souk
work “round them, When con
struction actually took phice
this August, | discovered: the
GVRD did net watch out for
these features but ended up
burving them. What is the

pointora public process if staff

donot follow through with

what they say?
Pinive ahvays been tally sup-
portive af inline skating and
ay facilities in the Lower
Seyineur Comervation
Reserve. Me. Milne probably
does not knew thar back in
J9YSS [submited a report te
the GVRD on behalf of the
URC Mountain Biking Club
advouting for the opening up

despite prom:

oer the Sevmiour Valley for
evelists and ves it has been a
great success. Palo wish for the
Mivcess out Tus new
evelingintine skating read burt
Pan net help bur be disap-
pointed about our heritage fost
in Gre process chat could have
been preserved |

Paul Hundal

West Vancouver

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