‘Newsstand Price 25¢ August 23, 1981

Eviction

of trailers
leaves six
homeless

s’ group sl

THE VOICE OF NORTH AND WEST VANCOUVER

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FACING EVICTION from their mobile home park in North Vancouver, tenants Clatre Caveld and Richard Gould (right) discuss
their predicament with Greg Richmond of the North Shore Tenant's Association, the group that is
lobbying on the tenant's behalf. (Ellsworth Dickson photo)

Rentalsman’s ruling overturned

By PAT RICH

Six mobile
owners with
else to go” have lost
thelr fight against
eviction from a mobile
home park in North
Vancouver which = is
being removed to make
way for a motel ex-

home
“nowhere

pansion.
And a spokesman for the
North Shore ants

Association saad the decision
1s a “major adverse ruling for
tenants across the province”
The Supreme Court) of
Bnush Columbia recently
found the Rentalsman ‘crred
in law” when he said the
motel owner did not have
the power to terminate the
tenants’
spring
Now only an appeal by the
Renatalsman’s office can stop
a final eviction date being set
for the (tenants, some of

agreements this

whom are senior citizens

The dispute arose at the
beginning of this year when
the owners of the Ranch
Motel at 1633 Capilano Road
decided to expand the
motel

Included io the plans for
cA paAnston iS a hine unit
mobile home park behind
the motel on land owned by

the motel

A planning and project
management firm was hired
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with eld

By TERRY LAVENDER

The = provincial
government owes
North Vancouver City
and District almost
$2 million each, and
the municipalities may
have to take drastic
measures to cope with

the financial  short-
coming, warn
treasurers for both

local governments.

Those measures might
include stopping payment to
the North Vancouver School
Board of tax money
collected for the board by
the municipalities. say ( ty
Treasurer Dave Moulding
and Distnet Director of
Financial Servicer. Mel
Palmer

The two governments owe
the school board around $18
milhon still, said Len Berg.
school board = secretary-

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