Emergency Public Meeting to Save the Juan de Fuca Trail
by Wild Coast.ca
Warning: The Capital Regional District's Land Use Committee
is not listening to the people they're supposed to represent. If the committee
vote were held today, the proposal for a massive resort and 270 vacation homes
along the Juan de Fuca trail would PASS 4 to 1.
But our survey shows 92% of the
people living in the Juan de Fuca area don't support new resort development.
They're being ignored in favour of big resort developers and lots of empty
promises.
What we need is protection for Juan de Fuca Park and the
forestlands.
Tuesday, March 22, First Metropolitan Church,
932 Balmoral
at Quadra, 7-9 pm
We only have a couple months to turn this around. That's why
Forest Action Network, Dogwood Initiative, Wilderness Committee, Sea to Sea
Greenbelt Society, Protect Our Parks, and Jordan River Steering Committee have
joined together with local communities to form a super-group. Our goal: save
the Juan de Fuca trail and restore sanity to land-use planning on the south
Island.
This coming Tuesday, March 22, we're hosting an
emergency meeting in Victoria that's open to everyone. Panelists will answer
your questions about what this project means, how to stop it, and why it's
connected to other plans to open up rural lands to sprawling developments. Join
our panelists: former environment minister David Anderson, Royal Roads tourism
professor Brian White, and Deborah Curran, lawyer with the Environmental Law
Centre at UVic. All the CRD directors are invited. Meet like-minded people and
get the latest info about creating a new land-use vision on southern Vancouver
Island. Please pass it on!
Call
on the CRD to safeguard rural lands and promote smart growth, not stupid
sprawl. Tell the
members of Land Use Committee "A" what you think about a moratorium
on development.
Geoff Young, CRD Chair
Victoria Councillor
250.385.5711 (City Hall phone)
250.361.0220 (City Hall office)
Send Geoff a note: http://www.crd.bc.ca/_contact/?r=680
Graham Hill, Vice Chair
View Royal Mayor
250.479.6800 (City Hall phone)
Send Graham a note: http://www.crd.bc.ca/_contact/?r=515
Denise Blackwell, Committee A
Langford Councillor
250.478.7882 (City Hall phone)
250.478.6169 (home phone)
Send Denise a note: http://www.crd.bc.ca/_contact/?r=531
Janet Evans, Committee A
Sooke Mayor
250.642.1634 (City Hall phone)
250.415.6003 (Cell phone)
Send Janet a note: http://www.crd.bc.ca/_contact/?r=325
Mike Hicks, Committee A
Juan de Fuca Electoral Area Director
250.642.1500 extension 207 (CRD Office phone)
Send Janet a note: http://www.crd.bc.ca/_contact/?r=100
John Ranns, Committee A
Metchosin Mayor
250.474.3167 (City Hall phone)
Send John a note: http://www.crd.bc.ca/_contact/?r=427
David Saunders, Committee A
Colwood Mayor
250.478.5541 (City Hall Phone)
250.213.9407 (Cell phone)
Send David a note: http://www.crd.bc.ca/_contact/?r=206
What it will take to change their minds? Let's find out. The support from
people across the region is HUGE. To lend your time or resources, call Zoe on
the hotline at 250-813-3569 day or night. To get on the action team, drop in to
our Sunday meetups starting April 3, and stay tuned for more info.
Thank you!
Zoe Blunt
Vancouver Island Community Forest Action Network
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Hotline: 250-813-3569
Email: Zoe@WildCoast.ca
Web: www.WildCoast.ca
