Aldergrove Star
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
contributor: Langmann, Rudy
issued: 2022-09-22
issued: 1979-09-19
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note: in..,.■■__.. iFi npimiiDni in ! 11 wmrmmm^m.mm* OFFICIALS AGREE i lands scarce Calllln Is getting his goat al fair time. MURRAYVILLE - Councilmen and civil servants here agreed this week that Langley district has a very limited amount of land designated available for' industrial use. "We have a very limited amount of industrial lands,", said Aid. Elford Nundal, "And you know what it's like to try to get (additional) land removed from the agricultural land reserve." Nundal said Langley is "very lean" on service industrial land and that what is still available musn't be "dllluted". . ' According to Nundal it would amount to dilluting to allow a truck stop cafe in an industrial park. Municipal planner Gerry Sawicky echoed the alderman when he told council the plan- ning department had recommended against the restaurant in the northwest Langley industrial park because "Industrial lands (in Ungley) are limited, and it is imperative that industrial lands be used as designated." Sawicky spoke of "flexibility" in the appropriate municipal bylaw but added that to rezone an industrial lot for commercial use would also set a precedent and cause "a negative influence;" Councilors were split on the 'issue, with the mayor and aldermen Stan Fraser, Elford Nundal and Art Brooks opposed to the proposed restaurant at 96 Avenue and Telegraph Trail. ii Three other aldermen, Bill Blair, Jim Lee and Jock Lindsay being in favor. | Mayor George Driediger, who "has been against the Hilna Enterprises restaurant ever since - the proposal first came before council, said there isn't'enough room to turn a truck around inside the proposed parking lot. "The old song, 'Give me 40 acres, and I'll turn this rig around' is correct," he said. "Seventy-seven-and-a-half foot trucks just can't maneuver on that property." A spokesman for the owners, William R. Evans, agreed but said the truck driving clientele ..they were basing their livelihood on were more likely to drive B.C. Hydro service trucks and li…
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: 10.14288/1.0420768
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