Aldergrove Star
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
contributor: Langmann, Rudy
issued: 2022-09-22
issued: 1978-03-15
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note: legislative Library Parliament Bldg. Victoria, B.C. Jan?9 FRASER INDUSTRIAL CENTRE Residents favor project ALDERGROVE - Twenty-eight families living in the County Line - Jackman Road area north of here have signed a petition filed this week with Langley district council. The petitoners have put their names to a document which calls for Gloucester Properties being "...permitted and encouraged to proceed immediately with (their) Fraser Industrial Centre." Some of the individual comments made on the petition read as follows: "We are all for this development if il is done properly and will help the community." "Wc arc in favor of this development, providing there is some definite word within a short period of time, as we are in the process of building our home and do not wish to carry on with it if wc arc unable to live in it." "We are willing to sell if the price is within reason and we can settle elsewhere on equivalent property without loss." "Would like to see project cither approved or vetoed quickly, so we can get on with doing our own thing." "Wc are all the way for the project." "We would like to see some jobs." "This is our chance to get sewer, water, jobs." "We need water, jobs and recreation." "As long as they (developers) maintain the initial plan for light industrial development." "We are very much in favor of this development. We would like to hear of an immediate start to the project for many reasons, one of which is there has been a terrible rash of vandalism in this neighbourhood lately and this development would create the tax base to hire enough police to protect us." The twenty-eight families all live within a one-mile radius of the planned development, a few within the boundaries of the actual proposed industrial site. Gloucester's application is pre sently before the B.C. Land Commission. It has been approved in principle by Langley district council and the Central Fraser Valley regional district. The project's future fate might have been determine…
note: Title changes in chronological order: Aldergrove Herald (1957-10-16 to 1958-02-20), Aldergrove News (1958-02-27 to 1964-04-30), Central Fraser Valley Echo (1964-05-06 to 1964-12-23), Central Fraser Valley Star (1967-01-17 to 1969-02-05), and Aldergrove Star (1969-02-12 to 1991-12-31). Presented to the Alder Grove Heritage Society by Kurt Langmann and Family, July 1, 2021.
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Aldergrove (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0420723
language: English
lat: 49.0851
long: -122.4707
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Aldergrove : Central Fraser Valley Star Publishing Ltd.
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source: Original Format: Alder Grove Heritage Society
type: Text