NEWS photo Tom Surley IT WAS standing room only when residents in the Seymour Heights area packed the gymnasium at Plymouth Elementary Schoot last week for a North Vancouver District Council public meeting on the rezoning ap- plications by the district and Tri Power Homes Ltd. RIVERSIDE TERRACE District park pian comes under fire NORTH VANCOUVER District Council came under fire last week over plans for the location of a 51-lot single fami- ly residential subdivision and open park space in an area that has been plagued by flooding and seepage. Area residents have referred to the proposed park space as ‘‘the natural sump for the Seymour basin.”’ Rezoning necessary to accom- modate the development in the area, bounded by Carnation Street to the north, Berkley Road to the east, and Riverside Drive to the west along Seymour River, was the second item on the agenda at last week’s packed public hearing at Plymouth Elementary School. The developer, Tri Power Homes (TPH), and the district want to move the park, initially slated for the upper northeast cor- ner of the’ property, to the lower southwest corner near Riverside Drive. ‘‘The jocation of the park was never ingrained in granite,’ said TPH president Dieter Glups. Residents are calling for the tetention of more trees, less development and more park space. “My essential concern, is not about the type of housing going in, but whether or not it will stay there,”’ said Blair Wilson, a 20- year Riverside resident. ‘As for the park in a ravine, I think I’m Wednesday, cloudy with rain. Thursday peas of i rain Highs near 6° C. Auto. Business... Classified Ads Doug Collins. Comics Editorial Page Bob Hunter... Lifestyles Maitbox oneewe TV Listings... .: What's Going On.... By MICHAEL BECKER Mews Reporter going to have to shorten one leg to be able to play tennis there. It’s a cliff.”’ Wilson said the latest Tri-Power bid was the fifth proposal for the site and that the current proposal was almost identical to a plan pro- posed J2 years ago that didn’t go ahead. Ron Doyle, district soil consul- tant, told the hearing that the area slated for development is set well back behind a stable 30 degree slope. “The banks will be left virtually undisturbed,’* Doyle said. “Development at the top could help to alleviate this seepage and make the banks more stable.”’ Glups has tentatively set a walk through the area with surveyors and residents in two wecks time and will meet with the Seymour Heights Residents Association for an information meeting to address some of the residents’ concerns be- fore the hearing resumes March 4. 3 - Wednesday, January 28, 1987 - North Shore News McCARTNEY WOODS PROPOSAL NV residents oppose district development OVER 500 DISGRUNTLED Seymour Heights area residents jammed the Plymouth Elementary School gym recently to unanimously voice their opposition to North Vancouver District’s latest plans to develop McCartney Woods. By MICHA District council called the public hearing to discuss planned rezoning of portions of the development area. The bulk of the rezoning proposals wanted by the district involve increasing zoning densities to accom- modate a transition zone between the predominately detached single family residential Blueridge neighborhood west of McCartney Woods area and higher density development including 12-unit per acre condominiums eastward. Municipal planner Kai Kreuchen identified a stag- nant one per cent per annum population growth rate, a maturing population, and decreasing household sizes in the district as signs of market demand for a broader variety of housing options. ‘People want less commitment to traditional hous- ing and we need to provide a broader range,” said Kreuchen. ‘‘People’s needs are changing drastically.” The McCartney neighborhood, bounded by Hyan- nis Drive, Tompkins Crescent, Dunrobin, Medwin Place, Walpole, Emerson Way, and Trillium Piace, is a part of the 30-year phased development agenda set out in the Seymour Community Plan. The plan ultimately envisions a population of 50,000 living in a 36 square kilometre area extending from Lynn Creek to Indian Arm and from Burrard Inlet to the lower slopes of Mount Seymour, District has been building 450 dwelling units per year in the Seymour area over the past three years. Eight hundred people are forecast to live in the McCartney Woods development. Heart Fund plans celebration IZZARD HONORED ONE YEAR ago West Van- couver artist Daniel Izzard became the oldest heart transplant patient in Canada. This month, in his honor, the B.C. Heart Foundation has orga- nized a special party called A Celebration of the Gift of Life. lzzard’s wife Denese said the party will also honor all those who have donated organs and people - who plan to do so. AWARENESS “The party should make people aware of the value of donating their organs,”’ she said. ‘‘There’s a _ great need in Canada to have more donors. Sixty per cent of all organs received in Canada come from the U.S.” The party, to be held at the B.C. Complex Jan. 31, will kick-off the Foundation’s 1987 Heart Fund Drive which, this year, intends to raise $4 million for heart research and education. SPECIAL GUESTS The party will start at 8 p.m. with wine and hors-d’oeuvres serv- ed on the Discovery Tree Floor; followed by the introduction of special guests and presentations at 8:45 p.m. in the Discovery Theatre. Invited guests will include repre- sentatives of the federal and pro- vincial governments as well as Vancouver City Hall. Also, in a special ceremony to honor the Organ Donor Society of Pennsylvania, the governor of that state, or his representative, will be on hand to accept a paint- ing from the Izzards. It was from Pennsylvania that Izzard received his new heart. THANKS GIVEN Denese Izzard said the gift is their way of. saying thanks to the family who donated Dan’s new heart, and also to honor the 3% million people in Pennsylvania who have agreed to donate their organs. “tt really says something that 3% million people really value the gift of life and made this commit- ment,”’ she said. MUSICAL TRIBUTE At the climax of the party, Genie award-winning composer Michael Conway Baker will salute Izzard and his art, with the premiere of a musical tribute writ- ten especially for the evening to celebrate the gift of life. Tickets for the party are $25 per person. A_ limited supply is available and may be purchased through the B.C. Heart Founda- tion at 736-4404. Addressing council on behalf of the Seymour Heights Residents Association, spokesman Neil McDonald said residents support controlled develop- ment, but are opposec to the current proposals on ac- cess and zoning. Hyannis and Emerson have been targeted as the two key access routes into the new area. McDonald charged Hyannis doesn’t méet the district’s major road classification standards and is choked by heavy on-street parking by residents unable to navigate 45 degree sloped driveways during winter months. Emergency vehicle access to the area also ranked high on the residents’ litany of grievances. ‘‘We were shocked 10 discover the ambulance which serves the neighborhood is based at the south end of the Second Narrows Bridge. Fire department response time to the Hyannis area is already in the extreme upper (time) end of acceptable response,’’ said McDonald. The spokesman called for a north-south feeder road connecting to Mount Seymour Parkway and a cul de sac for Emerson to alleviate traffic pressure on Blueridge. Zoning points of contention centred on parcels one and two of the new development. Parcel one, owned by the district, is to be rezoned from single family to garden apartment residential. But area residents want detached housing. “Council is in a sensitive position here,’” McDonald said. ‘They fulfill the role of policy maker, landown- er and decision maker. It’s a little like being the ac- cused, judge, and jury in court.” Parcel two, jointly owned by the federal Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation and proviicial Ministry of Lands, Parks, and Housing, is sleted for rezoning from single family to garden apartment condominiums. McDonald said the government partnership ad- vocates maintenance of purely single family zoning. The public hearing was reconvened to Wed., March 4, 7 este Lad., was non-union . But ABS © prisident: Ed- ‘Van. “Hf: the boll NEWS photo Miko Wakefield DENESE AND Danie! Izzard will be the centre of attention at the B.C. Heart Foundation’s A Celebration of the Gift of Life party on Saturday at the B.C. Complex. Izzard is Canada’s oldest heart transplant patient. He received his new heart one year ago.