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Fight over Delta’s Southlands has raged for years
Land debate is nothing new O nce again, the Southlands in 1981 in a controversial move property in Delta is that changed the way exclusions the subject of a public were handled by the province. hearing. Exclusion became less political, The debate over this large piece and the emotional nature of the of property in South Delta has debates over farmland gradually been going on for more than eased. 40 years and has led to some However, for whatever reason, significant changes in the this large parcel of land Frank Bucholtz way farmland exclusion continues to bring out a and regional-planning lot of emotion. Perhaps matters are handled. it is because its exclusion Yet, for this property – was controversial in once better known as the 1981. Many Tsawwassen Spetifore property, for residents do not want the family that farmed more development in it for years – little has their quiet enclave, changed. although many business A portion of the owners in the area original Spetifore land would welcome some along the foreshore has more customers. become parkland, but Plans for a shopping the bulk of it remains mall on Tsawwassen surrounded by urban First Nation land would development. obviously make more sense with While I cannot claim to have more residents in the area. been present at the very start of A suggestion at the public this debate, I was covering the hearings this week that the land Greater Vancouver Regional be sold to the TFN if it isn’t District meetings in the early rezoned this time should cause 1980s when the debate on this opponents to think twice. If it echoed from the walls of the became part of TFN lands, the Burnaby council chambers, local council and local residents which at that time hosted GVRD would have no say in how it (now Metro Vancouver) board would be developed. meetings. It is ironic that the current At that time, there was overt proponent of developing the hostility from Delta’s then-mayor, land is Century Group, owned Ernie Burnett, over regional by the Hodgins family. George politicians taking part in a debate Hodgins was involved in much about land use in Delta. He felt of the original development of that debate belonged within Tsawwassen, which took off Delta – a viewpoint eventually after the opening of the George adopted by the provincial Massey Tunnel in 1959. government, which took away From my study of the proposed most (but not all) regional use of the land, it appears that powers over land use. the majority will be left in a The Spetifore land was natural state, either as parkland originally within the Agricultural or farmland. Housing and Land Reserve but was removed commercial development would
be built on the edges of the property, on both the eastern and western halves. There is some urban development on the east side in the Boundary Bay area, and it is understandable that residents there would object to a large number (950 have been proposed) of new homes nearby. From a planning perspective, the best area for the bulk of new homes would be on the west side, adjacent to the more developed part of Tsawwassen and shopping and commercial areas. Delta council will likely be handling this proposal with a 10-foot pole. A decision in 1989, after the longest public hearing in Canada, to allow rezoning of the property brought about an almost-total turfing of council at the next election, and the rezoning was promptly overturned. That election in 1990 drew a 55 per cent turnout at the polls, which is almost certainly a modern-day record for turnout in a larger Metro Vancouver municipality. Given that the province plans to replace the Massey tunnel with a new bridge, and that there will be intensive development on TFN lands, it seems reasonable to allow development on a portion of the Southlands property. However, the emotional appeals of opponents of the project may well convince council to again deny this application. If so, it will be interesting to see what steps developer Sean Hodgins will take next. Frank Bucholtz writes Thursdays for the Peace Arch News. He is the editor of the Langley Times.
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