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TUESDAY January 6, 2015 • www.langleytimes.com
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Metro loses ‘Precious gift from God’ appeal to uphold growth limits in Langley
NEW YEAR’S BABY ‘THE BOSS’ IS FIRST CHILD FOR COUPLE
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COURT RULING NOT SEEN AS RISK TO REGION’S GROWTH STRATEGY JEF F N AGE L Bl ack Pre s s
Stock Farm owned by Peter Wall are “not suitable for agriculture” and the plans Metro Vancouver has were conditionally apagain lost in court to Langproved by the Agricultural ley Township in a legal fight Land Commission. over whether the The decision regional district’s means homes can rules to control urbe built there as ban sprawl trump proposed, creating the decisions of a larger univerthe municipality. sity district near The B.C. Court Highway 1, as well of Appeal rejectas on the 11-acre ed Metro’s appeal Hendricks properof its earlier failed ty further south attempt to quash GREG in Langley, where a Langley rezoning MO O R E Metro also lost on that allowed much appeal. smaller lot sizes But Metro board so 67 new homes could chair Greg Moore said the be built on farmland near regional district does not Trinity Western University. believe the defeat creates a All three judges in the apdangerous precedent that peal found no inconsistenunravels its new regional cy between Langley Towngrowth strategy or its fuship’s Official Community ture ability to restrain dePlan and its commitments velopment to protect farmunder Metro’s growth stratland. egy, rejecting Metro’s posi“We obviously wish it had tion that the rezoning was gone in a different direcan illegal amendment. tion,” Moore said. The ruling also notes the areas slated for develContinued Page 5 opment within the A.C.T.
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The “boss” snuggles up to mom Mandeep Sekhon at Langley Memorial Hospital. The seven pound, 13-ounce boy became the first baby of the New Year at LMH on Jan. 2
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When his hungry son started fussing, new dad Guriqbal Khehra smiled and said “OK, boss,” and handed him to mom, Mandeep Sekhon. “He is a precious gift from God,” she said, as her child snuggled close on the hospital bed. The seven pound, 13-ounce boy was born at Langley Memorial Hospital on Jan. 2. By arriving before his scheduled Jan. 7 due date, he became the first child of the New Year born in Langley. He is also the first child for the young couple, Cloverdale residents who both work as professional drivers, and the first grandchild on the father’s side of the family. His father and mother planned to select a name for their first child on Monday, but he already had a couple of nicknames as of Sunday. “Boss” is one, a name his father stressed was “only for one day” and the other, that will probably stick, is “lucky.” “This is lucky for us,” his dad said.
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