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members. spoke ‘against the’:
proposal, backing solid op-
position of ‘area™'residents.
Because two-thirds of council
would have to approve plans
covering the proposal, that
aspect of the plan appears to
be dead,

The heart of the matter is
contained in the Marine
Drive Corridor Study, one.in
a series of community plans
being developed.

The corridor, study, ‘cur-|
rently, before council for con-
sideration, calls for the con-
servation designation to be
applied. to the Pemberton
Heights bank area to preserve
it as much as possible in its
present condition.

While such a proposal, if
adopted by council, would
not interfere with property
development at current zon-
ings, it would prohibit zoning
changes that would increase
residential density.

It would effectively freeze
residential development at
the current level of 12,000
square foot lots.

While Ald. John Ball,
Joan Gadsby and Mike Lakes
argued against it, Mayor
Marilyn Baker backed the
report’s proposal, disputing
arguments that the designa-
tion would limit property
owner rights and lower pro-
perty values.

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TOO ) MUCH ATTENTION is paid by the media to
opponents of the government’s restraint program
who claim to represent ‘“‘the average person’’ but,
in fact, are primarily interested in confrontation, a
top B.C. mandarin charged Thursday.

Addressing a capacity hun-
cheon meeting of the North
Vancouver Chamber of
Commerce, Deputy Labor
Minister Isobel Kelly defend-
ed the government's new
human rights legislation as
strengthening genuine human

rights in B.C.

The weakness of the
former system, based on a
human rights commission,
was its slowness, she said.

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The ‘system ‘became bogged’
down in ‘‘unsubstantial’”
complaints, so that cases’
from 1978 and 1979 were still’
on the books unresolved.

The new Human Rights
Bill 27 would be. more effec-
tive, Kelly declared, because.
it made grounds for discrim-.
ination more specific. As a.
result, the new Human
Rights council would.be able
to act quickly and fairly in.
solving problems.