Aldergrove Star
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
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issued: 2024-05-03
issued: 1994-10-12
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note: m ! ■ FLIP-FLOP ON CREMATORIUM PERMIT !•■' - -_ Businessman to sue township ALDERGROVE -^"Township coxtncil narrowly voted in favor of a proposed crematorium here last week, in order to avoid a "lawsuit we probably couldn't win," but it appears they will be served with a summons anyway. Owners of businesses in Station Street Industrial Park were furious that after tlie proposal had been voted down twice at regular council meetings, it had been added to council's Oct. 3 agenda without prior notice, and subse- quently approved by a vote of four to two after coun. Muriel Arnason switched sides under threat of legal action. Businessman Donald Ramsay said if it takes a lawsuit to get council's attention, he'll gladly give them one. "If the permit was unacceptable to council before tlie threatened lawsuit, it should not become acceptable in order to avoid legal action." Ramsay said he has no objection to a funeral home, as proposed by Personal Alternative Funeral Services and parent company, Lawren£&J. Little Management Corp. It's solely the crematorium that Ramsay says is inappropriate in a service commercial C-3 zoning, and he believes that township staff erred when they told tlie company that crematoriums were acceptable in that zoning. On that basis, the company bought the land, designed the building and applied for the development permit, and when it was rejected twice the proponents promised to sue. Ramsay says the township has only compounded their troubles now that they've issued tlie development permit, and he adds that legal precedence is on his side. Ramsay has an ally in mayor John Scholtens, who had told The Star that he didn't believe that crematoriums fit into the C-3 zoning description, either. He said he'd rather have seen tlie application deferred while the township investigated options used elsewhere, sQ&Ji; as specifically allow ing crematoriums on cemetery premises. On the other side, coun. Steve Burton said there was a cfelfiato- rium in Vancouver ac…
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 Rudy Langmann, April 9, 2003.
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Aldergrove (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0442164
language: English
lat: 49.0851
long: -122.4707
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: [place of publication unknown] : [publisher not identified]
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source: Original Format: Alder Grove Heritage Society
type: Text