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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
ZONING AMENDMENT BYLAW (RESTAURANT USES) NO. 2014, 2012
Notice is hereby given in accordance with the Local Government Act RSBC, 1996, c.323 that the
Council of the Resort Municipality of Whistler will hold a Public Hearing to consider representations
regarding amendments to Whistler “Zoning and Parking Bylaw No. 303, 1983” (Zoning Bylaw) by
means of “Zoning Amendment Bylaw (Restaurant Uses) No. 2014, 2012” (the “proposed Bylaw”) in
the Franz Wilhelmsen Theatre at Maurice Young Millennium Place, 4335 Blackcomb Way, Whistler,
British Columbia commencing at 6:00 p.m., September 4, 2012.
AT THE HEARING the public will be allowed to make representations to Council or present written
submissions respecting matters contained in the proposed Bylaw and will be afforded a reasonable
opportunity to be heard.
SUBJECT LANDS: The lands, which are the subject of the proposed Bylaw, are located in all zones
that permit restaurant use within the Resort Municipality of Whistler.
PURPOSE OF “ZONING AMENDMENT BYLAW (Restaurant Uses) NO. 2014, 2012”: In general
terms, the purpose of the proposed Bylaw is to create a defi nition of “restaurant” in Zoning Bylaw
303, 1983 to exclude drive-in and drive-through restaurants, unless expressly provided otherwise.
AND FURTHER TAKE NOTICE that a copy of the aforementioned “Zoning Amendment Bylaw
(Restaurant Uses) No. 2014, 2012” and related documents which have been or will be considered
by the Council of the Resort Municipality of Whistler may be inspected at the Reception Desk of
Municipal Hall of the Resort Municipality of Whistler located at 4325 Blackcomb Way, Whistler,
British Columbia, between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., from Monday to Friday only, from
August 23, 2012 to September 4, 2012 (inclusive) (statutory holidays excluded).
Lonny Miller, Corporate Offi cer
The following Public Hearings will be held on September 4, 2012 starting at 6:00 p.m. in the
following order:
1. Zoning Amendment Bylaw (Function Junction – Indoor Recreation Uses) No. 2003, 2012;
2. Official Community Plan Amendment Bylaw (BC Transit Site) No. 2013, 2012 and
Zoning Amendment Bylaw (BC Transit Site) No. 2012, 2012;
3. Zoning Amendment Bylaw (Restaurant Uses) No. 2014, 2012.
this connection was extended to Edinburgh,
completing a Scottish Lowlands waterway
network. But in 1933 the vital, 11-lock link
that joined the two canals was cut by road
construction, leaving two separate routes, one
35 metres above the other. In the decades
that followed, both were largely abandoned
and forgotten.
Now, revived for pleasure boating
(along with much of Britain’s extensive,
18th and 19th century canal network), the
two have been reconnected with the world’s
only rotating boat lift: a vast, cog-covered
mechanical beast that scoops up boats and
water and sends them arcing through the air
on the mother of all ferris wheel rides.
The ride didn’t come cheap. The highway
project that originally severed the canal only
saved £16,000 by taking the shorter route
through the locks. The revival of the waterway,
completed in 2002, cost £84.5 million, of which
20 per cent was spent on the reconnection itself.
In the new alignment the final bit of
the upper canal, before it reaches the Falkirk
Wheel, soars over the valley on a series of
pylons, passing like a thread through the
concrete rings that top each support. Beyond
the last ring is the wheel. There is more than
a small element of science fiction in its design,
Clockwise from top left:
The futuristic Falkirk
Wheel takes pleasure
boats on a ferris wheellike
ride from the end of
one canal to another, 35
metres below. On the
Beach at North Berwick,
looking west; photo by
Graeme Pow (flickr.com/
photos/graeme_pow).
The 18th green at North
Berwick West Links;
photo c/o North Berwick
Golf Club. Nesting gannet
birds at Bass Rock, North
Berwick. Traditional
Italian restaurant in
North Berwick; photo by
Graeme MacLean (flickr.
com/photos/gee01). The
Falkirk Wheel from a
different angle.
and yet just beyond lie some traditional locks
with creaking wooden gates: the overall effect
is Klingon Empire meets Wind in the Willows.
To the onlooker, a ship entering the
wheel’s upper gondola seems ready to glide
straight on and plunge into the water below.
But it halts, and barriers rise behind it. There’s
a 20-second delay while 240 sensor checks are
carried out by computer, then the structure
begins, ponderously but magnificently, to
rotate. The speed is impressive, if not exactly
the “white-knuckle ride” promised in some
of the literature. More impressively still, the
system is so perfectly balanced that the energy
needed for a single rotation is no more than
that required to boil eight kettles.
Unlike with traditional locks, no water
is lost, since as much is carried up with each
rotation as travels down, and the journey
time is in minutes rather than the hours it
sometimes took to descend the original 11
locks, especially at peak season.
There’s no charge for taking a boat up or
down, but if you haven’t brought your own
vessel you can pay to take one of the frequent
cruises on offer at the visitor centre, which
sits at the base of the wheel and whose glass
wall offers panoramic views of this unique
engineering marvel at work. ■
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