Dear Raditory f 4
Pwould The to call your, ‘atten:
tion to the final’ ‘approval, ata re.

cent North. Vancouver District:

Council. meeting, of | Seafirst
“Development's application: tor build
jeight townhouses. off “Fre: ‘ame

“Road. Atthe same time t; would”

“like to. tell other homeowners in
i the. District. of. Sarfh” Vancouver
” exactly what they. can expect from °
“the so-called’ ‘die process’ _ of
public. hearings, “especially when?!
the. views-of ‘the people who’ liye
here come jn conflict with those, of
absentee developers: ba
“AS your: paper reported, there
was'strong opposition voiced at the
public hearing of Feb.-15)\Over 50
area residents took thet ouble to
show up, and at leas! * dozen
“voiced concerns about uaffic, the
already impossible parking situa
tion, noise created by such high
population’ density, « and. much
_ more.- Council seemed to indicate
"these Coricerns Would be taken into”
account. The,developer countered»:

“then: for. that apeason it ‘should be
_done now. ,

Arthe following meeting several
aldermen notably “Clark and

“Rogerd. | \ Stated that ‘they’ “would

‘vote fo teroning! ‘only: if itjdid ng
changes, “the ehieacter Jot We.
acighbor hood, and only if there

“wag? not significant opposit tion”

fiom focal: residents,

Both these conditions had surely .

eon met, in this: matter! Never-

theless, when the ‘vote came -up, |

these sameelected officials stcod

Sup Jand’ contradicted’: their own,

statements ‘of. any cmoments:

carlier, ve nig HOw: the “questions:

for! ‘tint apptoval, Once again, ik

same aldermen, Clark) Rogers,-
Dykema n and Segal, dutifully’ -

/ passed the measure.

_ At the worst? we havean active ©
real estate Jobby operating. here. At .

est, some: very. flawed, thinkin

ds’ clear fo me that) as: vorer:

no particular’ ‘special interest ather
than the quality of our hives,: our

responsibility to ourselves and. our”
‘families. is to, vote these realtor-

aldeimen.out af office at the: nest
election. - Lek,
Greg Foster, North Vancouver

able. logic... put, : forward by the:

developer. Thar, Lalong “with
“Dykeman and-Seé t

pass the rezonin

Tf the concerned presence ‘of 50
residents:and the’ ‘woicing of strong

al, they voted 10.)

¢ ‘opposition particularly over parks

rcighed by an argument
that. essentially says,: ‘we almost

“made. fhis mistake before, so for!’

that ,reason.: we should “make. it!

withthe rationale that, since these. , “now), then J suggest that we:havea

_ two residential fots: would have.

been. zoned) ifor “ee before,

serious problem on districk council.

‘GUARANTEE YOU WILL: LOSE. THE WEIGHT. :

ou ‘desire in’on year. or or. the

/Ata Jater date the issue came up’,

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