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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