THE STRONGEST opposi-
tion Monday to the final
draft of North Vancouver
City’s Official Community
Plan (OCP) involved pro-
posals for new develop-
ments that would increase
the building height and
density of two areas of the
city.

By Pamela Lang
Contributing Writer

A possible 12-storey seniors’
complex on the 100-block of West
2nd Street and another 13-storey
residential tower proposed for the
old library site at the 135 West
12th St. drew the most fire from a
crowded gallery at public hearings
to discuss the OCP update.

Impaired views and lower prop-
etty values were cited as reasons
to retain the building heights
outlined in the city’s recent view
study.

Several city residents complain-
ed that the study, which initiated
guidelines for building heights
throughout the city, is being ig-
nored when new buildings are ap-
proved.

Denis Smit asked council if the
new OCP would be treated the
same as the old OCP — with the
city changing it to allow residen-
tial towers in Lower Lonsdale at
heights greater than the guidelines
allowed.

“Any building, regardless of
height, is going to hurt someone’s
view,” said city resident Donald
Currie,

But he added that if the city
follows the guidelines adopted by
city council after the completion
of the view study the harm to
view corridors will be reduced.

Currie eucouraged council to
follow its own height and density
guidelines rather than adjusting
the OCP every time a building is
approved,

But central Lonsdale resident
Larry Marshall said residents in
his area were more concerned with
traffic problems.

According to the new OCP,
i7th, 19th and 23rd Streets will be
considered coliector roads, with
parts of 19th and 23rd being des-
ignated as minor arterial roads.

Based on OCP figures, collector
roads can expect up to 10,000
vehicles within a 24-hour period,
with twice that number on minor
arterial roads.

Marshall said the city engineer-
ing department’s goal appears to
be to improve traffic flow through
residential neighborhoods, yet res-
idents in those neighborhoods
want traffic through their
neighborhoods to be minimized.

The updated OCP also includes
several special study areas, in-
cluding:

@ the nighborhood surrounding
the proposed highway interchange
at Westview Drive:

@ the 6S-acre Fullerton Fill
on the city’s waterfront;

@ and part of the former Ver-
satile Pacific Shipyards’ site at the
foot of Lonsdale.

A representative of the Fuller-
ton Lumber Co. — owners of the
Fullerton Fill — supported the
special study status the site has
had since the 1980 OCP was
adopted and would retain through
the update.

The Port of Vancouver's option
to purchase the 65-acre site has
been extended to October, ex-
plained Deborah Overholt of the
Ladner Downs law firm.

But she said that without a
determination of the site’s future
owners, its best future use cannot
be determined.

Overholt added that if the port
purchases the site the sale would
not be finalized until the end of
1993.

site

The city adopted its first official
community plan in 1980.

In 1987. city council directed
staff co draft an OCP update.

The updated plan outlined for
the public at Monday night's
meeting included city facts and an
overview of what the city might
look like over the next five to 10
years.

The city’s population of 8,196
in 191! has grown to 38,436 in
1991, with a crowth rate that has

averaged approximately 2% an-
nually since 1980.

The new OCP suggests that the
city’s growth rate should not ex-
ceed 3% annually and that its
maximum population should be
approximately 45,000, a figure
that will be reached by the turn of
the century at the current growth
fate.

The city expects to continue to
promote Lower Lonsdale as the
fown centre and encourage the

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Sunday, June 21. 1992 — North Shore News ~ 13

Density and height concerns raised over OCP
Final draft of new Official Community Plan unveiled

redevelopment of central Lonsdale
with the growth of institutional
and business.

The plan calls for higher resi-
dential densities at Lonsdale with
transitional densities leading to the
single-family residential
neighborhoods to the east and
west of the main city street.

One of the primary changes be-
tween the two OCPs, as outlined
Monday by assistant director of
planning for development services

NORTH VANCOUVER
CITY COUNCIL

Richard White, is the way residen-
tial density will be calculated.

While the 1980 OCP uses a
units-per-acre limit, the 1992 up-
date would have density calculated
on the floor space ratio (the
amount of floor space a building
has in relation to the size of the
lot).

The city has been using floor
space ratio (FSR) as a rezoning
guideline for several years.

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