Miultiplie-use policy
should be applied
to Eagie Harbour

OPEN LETTER TO WEST
VANCOUVER COUNCIL

Thank you for bringing the ap-
plication for a waterlot sublease by
the Eagle Harbour Yacht Club
(EHYC) to the attention of the
public.

My wife and I would like to reg-
ister our opposition to such a
lease. For your consideration I ex-
tend the following argument:

© The purpose given in the ap-
Plication is to maintain existing
buoy facilities. Since. the EHYC
managed to maintain the buoys
outside their property so far, they
should certainly be able to con-
tinue to do so without ownership.

® Blocks A and B were granted
to the Eagle Harbour Marina and
subsequently changed ownership to
the EHYC. The creeping expan-
sion into the rest of the bay was
reportedly permitted by the West
Vancouver Parks and Recreation
Commission.

The reason given to the North
Shore News was “‘to deter water
skiers from recreating within Eagle
Harbour.’’? What a red herring if
there ever was one. In the 26 years
we've lived here, we have never
seen a waterskier in the harbor.

© A sublease would bring with it
the right of protecting one’s prop-
erty, e.g. extension of the
breakwater and docks. This, of
course, would allow more boats,
and that is really at the heart of this
application. If the club wants to
accommodate an expanding
membership, they will have to look

for property somewhere else. Here
they reached the tolerable limit.

® The EHYC put in a massive
breakwater for increased protec-
tion which without any doubt
decreased the natural tidal flushing
of the bay. An extension of the
breakwater and higher docking
density could only worsen the situ-
ation.

Nobody wants to go back to
beach closures again. (The
polluting effects of the expansion
in Fisherman’s Cove can readily be
seen by the stagnant water in the
added mooring area.)

© Many swimmers, young and
ald, enjoy swimming out to the
breakwater, including myself. The
north-south orientation of the
boats moored to buoys present no
problem, but extended docks cer-
tainly will.

© Last, but not Jeast, a stroll on
the beach at any time of the year
still allows a view to open water.
The granting of the sublease would
allow thhe EHYC to increase boat
density and facilities, thus denying
the public the pleasure of looking
out to sea.

The B.C. Forest Service estab-
lished decades ago a multiple-use
policy for our forests to
everybody's satisfaction. Would it
not make sense to apply the same
principle to multiple considera-
tions, in this case to Eagle Har-
bour?

The ERYC has already the
lion’s share of the bay. Please
leave the rest for the perpetual en-

Hunter’s logic
is ‘convoluted’

Dear Editor:

Bob Hunter’s convoluted logic
in his cclumn concerning Via Rail
cuts is the sort of irresponsible
reporting that should not be
allowed to pass without comment.

Using figures from an organiza-
tion called Transport 2000, Mr.
Hunter informs us thai the cuts
will lead to an additional 108,522
barrels of gasoline being burned
each year. From this rather dubi-
ous statistic, he makes the incredi-
ble assertion that, as a result, the
oil companies will be “‘spared”’ $30
to 50 million in taxes and ‘‘That’s
money that does not go to gov-
ernment to be spent on social ser-
vices or even servicing our debt.”

What rubbish. Most people real-
ize that companies pay tax on
profits. That is, tax is calculated
on the difference between the
company’s revenues and a com-
pany’s costs. If a company doesn’t
make any profit, it doesn’t pay any

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tax.
So, if the oil companies produce
and profitably sell an extra 108,522
barrels of gasoline, they will ob-
viously pay more tax, not $30 to 50
million less as Mr. Hunter pro-
claims.

Mr. Hunter also states the oil
companies ‘‘...will be able to write
off as much as 50 per cent of the
cost of bringing all that extra crude
on line.’’

I would hope that the companies
can ‘‘write-off’? 100 per cent of
their costs. Not many companies
could stay in business if they paid
tax, not only on their profits, but
on 50 per cent of their costs as
well,

Some readers complained about
Doug Collins’column. At least he
got his facts sight and he knew
what he was talking about. It is
unfortunate the same cannot be
said of Mr. Hunter.

W.F. Avery
West Vancouver

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