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Suburban Newspar

_ September 8, 1985 News 985-2131 Classified 986-6222

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THE LOWER Capilano Residents Association is
rallying to save its neighborhood.

‘ Association members
complain, control. of their
area. has-.fallen into the
hands of. developers.

-They’ also. contend the.
North | Vancouver ”: District
planning department is their

o charges

By ROSS ME

: worst enemy.

‘ What was once a quiet
backwater neighborhood ad-
jacent to rushing Marine

THE B.C. Ministry of Environment will not be
laying charges against the North Vancouver com-
pany that spifled a highly toxic chemical soup into

Lynn Creek.

Ken Fraser, environmen-
tal enforcement coordinator
for the ministry, says as far
as the ministry’s investiga-
tion into the spill is concern-
ed, “the file is closed. We

{MOTHY RENSHAW

have no plans for any legal .

action because, though we
have a very good idea where

Drive and Capilano Road is
threatened by developers
seeking to take advantage of
the area’s central! location by
building high profit con-
dominiums, apartments or
townhouses.

The residents complain
district staff, pressured by
developers and their own

the spill originated, we do
not have enough evidence to
lay any charges.’’

The spill was discovered
July 9 when a team of fed-
eral Fisheries and Wildlife
personnel, in the course of
moving salmon from a sec-
tion of the North Vancouver
creek being worked on by
North Van

District crews,

‘Season

for

PAGE 31

planning priorities, are pro-
moting unwanted change
without listening to what
residents want.

PRESSURE FOR CHANGE
But district planner Kai

Kreuchen says the pressure
for change on the area north

. NEWS photo Stuart Davis °°: 8°

laid in toxic

stumbled upon the chemical
flushing directly into ihe

-creek from a 21-inch storm,

sewer pipe. ©
FISH DIED

Though no fish were
discovered in creek waters
below the spill and fish
subsequently tested in a

of Marine Drive and east of
Capilano Road is coming
from within the
neighborhood not from
without.

“A lot of pressure has
come internally,”
said. ‘‘People are selling and
others are splitting the lots
and building.

“The residents want to

‘forestall that, but we feel it’s

a natural evolution. We say
let’s take advantage of it.”

While the residents’ group
is against increasing the den-
sity, it would like to see im-
provements. But their im-
provements include tighter
control of through traffic,
construction of playgrounds,
preservation of boulevards
and design control over new
buildings.

“What we want sums up
to a neighborhood,”’ said
resident Jerome Irwin.

DESTABILIZATION

The residents contend
planners and developers are
*“destablizing the
neighborhood,"’ by allowing

‘residences to become rental

accommodation, an inter-

er:qu :
“passes one of his job’ flyers,’

Kreuchen .

mediate step before
developers gobble up houses,
replacing them- with con-
dominiums, apartments or
townhouses.

Multi-family houses,
‘‘Vancouver specials,"’ are
being constructed on sub-
divided lots. Ard even after
complaints are registered,
building inspectors do little
to impede developers, say
residents.

One resident complains a
developer was so brash he
constructed a house with two
front doors.

While District council has
already decided to employ a
consultant to study the area,
the residents association is
taking their concerns to
council.

They have -requested - to
Present an audio-visual to
council at September 16’s
regular meeting. They will
also be present at the
September 9 meeting when
council decides on a consul-
tant for their study.

After years of reacting to
crisis situations the group
says it will keep. up the
Pressure to protect its
neighborhood. .

advertising available jobs

across Canada, toa client. entering Canada. Employ: y
ment. Officials from’. Canada Employment: ‘asked’. - f
Feay to leave the vestibule.in front. of the premises,
and. when he did not,: :théy* called police. See story,~

page! ‘three.

solution of the highly acid
spill chemical died within 10

minute., ministry investiga--

tions have failed to establish
whether any fish were killed
in the spill.

“As far as we’re concern-
ed no fish were killed,’’
Fraser says.

The source of the spill has

been narrowed down to one.

of three electroplating
businesses. located along
Charlotte Road in ..North
Vancouver.
According to Fraser,
however, ascertaining
beyond a‘ reasonable doubt
exactly which of the
businesses was responsible
See No