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A7 - Sunday, June 12, 1983 - North Shore News

WV. council could
learn from Hong Kong

Dear Editor:

In the past few months
there seems to have been a
considerable increase in the
amount of coverage devoted
to the Pacific world. You are
to be congratulated. It is
vital to Western Canada’s
future that we become more
aware of the trans-Pacific
scene.

I have just returned from
my second month-long visit
to Asia so far this year. I
would like to share a few
thoughts with your readers.

First, we in Canada have
gone too far in the direction
of banning street vendor
stalls, non-conforming uses
affecting retail trade and
services, etc. I would not
want to see us move in the
opposite direction to the
extent found in Asia, but I
suggest that a compromise
would enable a large number
of our unemployed to start

little businesses which
simply could not begin under
our present excessive

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Second, I am = more
convinced than ever before
that our low density urban
sprawl is wasteful of
resources — particularly
blacktop. We have suburbs
sprawling over farmland in
Langley and Delta which
need never have been put
there. A string of medium-
rise clusters along the North
Shore mountains could have
saved all that wasted far-
miland and provided the
population base for an ef-
ficient compact rapid transit

system. I wish the entire
West Vancouver. city
council would visit Hong
Kong and note that the
Peak, at 2000 feet, has
clusters of well designed
apartment homes

surrounded by open space
and reached by cable tram.
(While they do not have to
contend with snow, they
manage to contend with
even more problematic

torrential downpours during

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typhoons). It is ridiculous
that we stop all development
at an arbitrary 1200 feet, but
then encourage it to sprawl
120 miles to Hope and
beyond.

Third, we would do
ourselves a service if we
were to permit more im-
migration of the industrious
people of Hong Kong. A
special program should be
authorized in the light of the
impending changes in that
jurisdiction. I would suggest
a specific mechanism: easier
access for Hong Kong
business-persons and trades-
persons on the condition
they settle for the first three
years in Canada in New
Westminster. I predict that
presently-depressed downt-
own New Westminster
would be working to full
capacity within three months
of the implementation of
such a program.

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