menu. | Question of projected. visits raised ‘BY. 1AN NOBLE: News Reporter - KATHARINE Steig of the - ’ Friends of Cypress preser- ‘vation group wants to .. know, what's in'a number. Specifically: the number is 15,000. It’s: contained in a > “request from BC Parks to West ‘Mancouver for. sewage and water hook-up to Cypress Park “to serve'that number of people - per, day. “The. request is. for - i approximately. “4,300 . more daily park visitors than the ximum outlined in a report cepted by the provincial gov- ‘ernment in September 1995, cc While “BC Parks. culls. the ; increased: figure ‘a buffer, Steig asks why 15,000 day users were “cited in-the request and what “that will mean for the park. - How “big ) a development “are we looking at?” she asked. ““How big'a day-use ski area "will we have in the park? -CanOxy CANADIANOXY Chemicals Litd. has won a round in its fight against . pollution, charges. Os prize is the return of extensive internal operating “records seized by federal environmental officials fast : year, Environment Canada, “however, can still keep the bits: of dead fish and plant ‘ monitoring records seized. “22In ca’ decision released Friday in B.C.- Supreme Nesting place “WEST Vancouver resident Diana Charlton held off on firing up the barbecue upon discovering a nest fuli of four baby robins in a hanging basket outside her Marine Drive home. Smoked robin was not on the “It is a surprise to me we are talking about that many.” said Steig, who has closely fol- . lowed the Cypress Park suga. In 1984, the B.C. govern- ment sold the ski operations in Cypress Park to Cypress Bow! Recreations ‘Ltd. (CBR) and granted a park-use permit fora controlled recreation area. CBR holds a 50-year park- use permit for a ski Gill in the heart of the park. The park is the most, visited in B.C. with 1.2 million visitors a: year, 300,000 of which are skiers. --Both’,CBR and BC Parks have pending civil suits against each other as a result of the ambiguity of their existing: agreements, A report by a Cypress Bowl planning com- mission in 1995 recommended that the ski area be allowed to further develop within its per- mit area new Hifts, parking lots, base area and food service on Strachan Mountain. The province adopted the report and has used it as the “basis for a master plan for the park. Negotiations between CBR and BC Parks continue. Bob Daiziel, in his third day as director of provincial opera- tions for BC Parks, said he hopes an agreement on a mas- ter plan for the park, an updat- ed park-use permit and a devel- opment plan for the ski hill can be finalized by October. He called the extra 4,300 people contained in the water and sewage request a buffer to indicate to West Vancouver the “absolute maximum volumes” required when reviewing the application. The final design capacity may be refined based on the conclusion of negotia- tions with CBR. “I can make a definitive statement we do not intend to allow ski hill expansion beyond the capacity recommended by Williams,” said Dalziel. Commissioner Bryan Williams” report puts. full expansion at 10,690, with 6,230 of those skiers. Dalziel said preliminary estimates show the water and sewage hook-up can be built for the $2. million set aside by Victoria. Steig adds she has other concems about park develop- ment, whether the number is 10,000 or. 15,000 visitors a day. She points to 50 acres of park old-growth that she said may be lost to the ski-aida, the ‘NEWS photo Pau! McGrath introduction of snowmaking to the discussion and the i impact a water and sewer extension will _ have on West Vancouver's moratorium on building above the 1,20G-foot line. Dalziel agrees there is old- growth in‘an area slated for ski wails under Williams’ Tecom- mendations. But how much of that will be felled to make way for ski nins won't be known until detailed site layouts are complete, he said. Dalziel added CBR has asked for snowthaking capaci- ty. Eivironmental and engi- neering feasibility studies must be done before a decision is made, he said. West Vancouver staff is currently preparing a report to” council outlining the BC Parks water and sewer | pplication and its feasibility, said commu- nity ‘planner Eric Levesque. However, he's| not sure when ~ the report will go to council. BC Parks ‘has asked for approval: to proceed with the design phase before the end of July, Steig willimake a presen- tation to council Monday night. Cypress | Bowl represen- iatives could not be reached for comment. | | i search warrants quashed Court, Mr. Justice Jon Sigurdson quashed two search warrants exccuted on CanOxy’s ch!or-alkali_ pro- cessing plant in North Jancouver in March 1995. The dead fish affair traces back to Oct. 13,1994, when a power outage at CanOxy's facility caused a shutdown of the plant's systems. A valve in the sea-water system failed, which released a chlorine compound dangerous to fish. Sigurdson = ruled — that because the documents seized were sought as proof that. the discharge could have been prevented, and because this could hurt CanOxy’s defence of due diligence, the search| warrants afe invalid. On June 15, 1995, CanOxy Wis charged with one viola- tion of the Fisheries Act and one violation ‘of the Waste Management Act. 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