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By lan Noble
ews Reporter

sTLAKAYA Developments has
sked for a three-month exten-
ion to a controversial agree-
ent allowing the company to
e district land to access con-
Struction on Tsleil Waututh
Burrard Band) land.

§ On Aug. 18, Takaya Developments
Requested an extension to Dec. 31, 1996
from Sept. 30 be forwarded to council as

Boon as possible for the use of a district
pight- -of-way at the end of Roche Point
rive,

The end-of-September date. had been
letermined when the agreement was
ruck in January.

Ina_ letter to district lands manager
ion Sigston, Takaya senior project man-
ger Harry Wong said preliminary

i pproval from various authorities, includ-

Ang the Department of Fisheries and
ceans, Was not received until June 24,

stead of the anticipated April 30.

“Extra time was taken for the (dis-
tict) engineering department and our
Zonsultants to exchange information to
Rasure that the construction of all ser-
ices and roads met! ‘district standards,”

mie said in the letter.

Currently, the Dollarton access road is

ing x cleared, Wong said.

In the future, the road will likely lead
o more than 500 residential units. A
realistic date for moving construction
Mraffic to the Dollarton road is now mid-
ecember, Wong said.

Chris Kwan, the chairman of the.
oche Point:.Community Association,
aid she knew an extension would proba-
ly be requested.

“I: personally don’t see a problem as

gas they try as hard as they can to get

done and minimize the effect on the

sidential area, which I think they are
Mloing,”. she said.

Kwan added she still has to talk to

+ members of the community associ-

tion: If they oppose the extension, Kwan

aid se will represent that point of view.

“Personally, I don’t think that will

Happen, but who knows?”

For the most part, Kwan said, truckers
ave: been adhering. to the restrictions,
including a 40-kilometre per hour speed
iit. '
He association fought. hard for a
Hollarton connector last year when the
and requested access to future develop-
ents solely from Roche Point Drive.
Meanwhile, Michael. Cross is upset by

ashe ongoing construction and

he-dust'it kicks up into his
ome «at the: Legends, a

NEWS photo Brad Ledwidge |

MICHAEL. Cross says construction road dirt causes his computer keys

to stick at his Roche Point home.

Takaya development at the end of Roche
Point Road.

Cross moved into his home in ‘August
1995 because the development promised
peace. Instead, his home has become a
dust bow! as the read. was cut through
the trees outside Cross’s condo tu allow
construction vebicles access for residen-
tial development.

However, the situation may soon
improve. Wong said the. construction
company will start watering the. access
road twice a day today.

The plan is for construction traffic to
uise a road to the left of the current access

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road by the end of September, he said.
That road is further away from Cross’s
condo.

“Most people on the south side of the
Legend are furious on a daily basis,”
Cross said, “To me, they just don’t give a
damn.”

Cross’s third-tloor condo is about 25
metres from the road. With this sum-
mer’s warm weather, his condo’s been ia
the billowing-dirt zone as trucks go by.

“If they think I'm going to sit here all
day with my windows closed: they’re
crazy,” said the owner of a home- based
graphic design business.

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