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wet and slippery track at Empire Stadium
heralded the beginning of just one of many races which took place
Thursday at the 21st annual North Shore track and field meet. Wet

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weather did little to dampen the spirits of the secondary school athletes

who took part in the meet. For more pictures see pages B2 and B3. (Terry
Peters photo)

‘Highway robbery’ W. Van council told

By AMANDA KING

Nervous mountainside cabin owners accusing
West Vancouver council of expropriation and
“highway robbery” turned a quiet public hearing
last Monday night into an intense debate.

The argument was over a
bylaw amendment affecting
land above the 1200 ft level
in’ West Proposing a
rezoning of all land currently
in Community Use Zone f to
Commuantnty Use Zone 7.

Van.

This would effectively
increase the two-acre
minimum site size to. five

acres, which means, in the

long run. fewer cabins above
1200 ft

Cabin owners tmphed that
such a move
eventually to

would lead
the muni
capafity expropnating their
land for pubhe use

“This is highway robbery,
a way of grabbing land

without paying for it,” Irene
Michaud told council. “You
can't just take people's land
and make it public. We own
iw”

Mrs Michaud added that
cabin owners “don't destroy
the mountain

However. council
members denied any in
tention of overriding cabin
owners’ rights

“The bylaw amendment

will, in effect, say. if you

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Court to rule

on municipal
powers

By PAT RICH

A North Vancouver
lawyer has challenged
the right of evéry
municipality in British
Columbia to take
somebody to court over
failure to pay for a dog
licence.

This surprise move came
at the beginning of the trial
of Doris Orr, of 248 West
26th Street, on three counts

of breaking the North
Vancouver City dog bylaws,
and caused Judge J.B.

Paradis to adjourn the trial
so written arguments could
be presented.

Orr and her lawyer, Jerry
Green, appeared in North
Vancouver Provincial Court
on Wednesday.

Orr is charged with;
unlawfully keeping more
than three dogs without a
kennel licence: keeping a
dog without a valid licence:

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weather

SUNDAY:
Mainly sunny
and warmer.

MONDAY:
Continuing fine.