NORTH VANCOUVER
City’s housing demolition
moratorium was rendered
less restrictive June 25 fol-
lowing a 5-2 city council
vote to amend the
municipality’s Rental Hous-
ing Protection bylaw.

By PAME
Contributing

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NORTH VANCOUVER
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The byfaw, passed last
November, requires council ap-
proval of most demolition per-
mits. But the new amendment will
allow demolition of buildings on
lots that have been zoned single-
family and duplex as of Nov. 13.

“It broadens staff's ability to
issue demolition permits,”’ said ci-
ty assistant planning director
Richard White.

Permits to demolish on lots
with a designated 30-units-per-acre
maximum can now be _ issued
without council's approval, but
applications to demolish buildings
on more densely zoned Jots must
still be approved by council.

“The bylaw is unfair to certain
people who are not dig devel-
opers,”? said Mayor Jack Loucks
in supporting the amendment.

Loucks said the original concern
addressed by the bylaw was over
the demolition of apartment

blocks: ‘‘We are hurting some
people we never intended to
hurt.”

But Ald. Bill Bell said, “I’m
not sure if the moratorium should
continue or not, and here we are
making further amendments that

THE LOCAL Iranian-Canedian community is operating an earthquake
relief centre at 1790 Marine Drive in North Vancouver. Volunteers are
collecting supplies to aid victims of the catastrophic earthquake which
hit northern Iran earlier this month. The North Shore group is also col-
lecting money to buy tents to help house the estimated 500,000 left

homeless in Iran after the quake.

water it down.””

Bell said that because a re-
quested staff report was never
produced he didn't have all the
relevant information on which to
base his decision.

He said he would refrain from
making any further ‘tad hoc’
decisions until the report is before
him.

But Ald. Stella Jo Dean said a
staff report did come to council,
recommending no extension of the
moratorium.

She said she voted against the
initial bylaw and the extension.
The moratorium, she said, is
“Scounterproductive’’? because
some developers are still allowed
demolitions, but must go through
the longer process of coming be-
fore council.

Dean referred to those builders
whose projects have been approv-
ed during the moratorium and

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NV City council eases up on
housing demolition moratorium

AMENDED BYLAW WILL ‘CORRECT INEQUITY’

would be exempt from the
amended bylaw.

“These are not big developers
coming before us,’’ she said, ‘‘and
delays are costly.’”

Ald. Rod Clark said, ‘The
amended bylaw will partly correct
the inequity which is in the mar-
ketplace as a result of the
moratorium. The inequity will not
be completely rectified until that
bylaw is out.”’

“It’s bad legislation,’’ he said,
adding that he would support the
amendment for the same reason
that Bell was against it: because it
‘‘waters down’’ the original
bylaw.

But Ald. John Braithwaite said
the only ‘‘bad legislation’’ was to
amend the bylaw, which should
have originally been for a year
rather than six months,

“We have a bylaw and we
should stick with it,’’ he said.

Responding to Braithwaite’s
suggestion that the moratorium
should have been for a year, Ald.
Barbara Sharp said that she had
proposed a six-month moratorium
because the extended period
srguidn't have passed this coun-
cil.”

“The housing crisis is decreas-
ing,’’? she added, and with it the
need for the original ‘‘conten-
tious’’ bylaw.

“It’s not poor legislation to
amend bylaws as changes occur in
the community,’’ Sharp said.

The amendment, which was
passed with Aldermen Braithwaite
and Bell opposed, had an im-
mediate effect.

Council deleted from its agenda
an application to demolish build-
ings at 232 and 238 West 17th St.
when Bell pointed out that it was
automatically approved under the
amended bylaw.

Locals seek support for
iranian quake victims

THE LOCAL Iranian community is asking North Shore cit-
izens to open their hearts and support the relief effort
under way to assist the victims of the devastating June 2}

earthquake in northern Iran.

The quake killed an estimated
70,000 people and left a further
300,000 homeless.

Iranian expatriates are operating
a quake relief centre at 1790
Marine Dr. in North Vancouver.

Volunteers have thus far receiv-
ed cash, clothing, medication,
bandages, first-aid kits, blankets
and other items. Goods collected
will be airlifted to Iran.

The relief centre was set up on
Saturday after an Iranian
businessman donated space for the
operation.

“So far response has been OK,
but our expectation was much
higher. We are planning to raise
as much as possible to purchase a
large number of tents,, which is
one of the items badly needed in
Iran,” said Nasser Lotfi, a North
Vancouver consulting engineer
who is volunteering as a reticf
centre worker.

Lotfi said some North Shore
Iranian families have not heard
from relatives in Iran since the
quake.

“Some of them do live in those
regions and there is no way to
communicate with them,’’ he ad-
ded.

The disaster in tran has trig-
gered debate in some circles as to
whether the world community
should respond to the country’s

call for emergency relief given
Tran’s recent “inhumane” history.

Iran has asked for help from
any nation except Israel and South
Africa.

this and very urgently.”’

— West Vancouver resident

But said Moe Ahmadi, a
member of the committee coor-
dinating the quake relief centre,
‘*There are people here right now
who are against the regime. But
they are beating their heads in
order to raise funds for the vic-
tims. An earthquake or a disaster
which befails human beings has
got nothing to do with bloody
government, politics and regimes
and what not. Iraq was at war
with Iran for eight years. They
were one of the first ones to send
a plane load of supplies.”

Mohammad Dadbeh, a retired
lawyer living in West Vancouver,
points out that international aid

Local baby stars in movie

NIKKI GRAHAM is a born
star.

By EVELYN JACOB
News Reporter

The North Vancouver bouncing
baby will make her first appear-
ance on the silver screen when the
movie sequel, Look Who’s Taik-
ing Too, opens at theatres this
Christmas, ;

Baby Nikki, who tipped the
scales at 7 Ibs., II 0z., was chosen
from several other new-borns to
play the role of Mickey’s sister
Julie, the new on-screen baby of
stars Kirstie Ailey and John
Travolta.

And at just four days old, the

little tyke was anything but shy
under the bright lights at Lions
Gate Hospital’s. new maternity
ward, where camera crews for
Tri-Star Pictures were filming this
week.

“She handled it very well,’’
Nikki's mother, Renee Graham,
said from the hospital, where
crews were still filming Tuesday.
“She did everything on cue. She
cried when she was supposed to,
She did it (the birth) just like
she'd done it before."*

Graham and husband Rod
found out about Tri-Star’s search
for a dark-haired baby girl from a
hospital nurse.

“After my Cuesarian section,’
said Graham, ‘tpeople fram = the

movie came to the hospital, look-
ed at a few babies, and picked the
one they wanted.””

According to Brigitte Pro-
chaska, public relations officer for
Look Who’s Talking Too, direc-
tor Amy Heckerling ‘‘really liked
the look and face of this baby.”’

Although Graham did not
reveal how much the young starlet
would receive for her work, she
said, ‘it’s an awful lot. And I was
expecting to be paid just $5 an
hour,’ she laughed.

Co-producer Bob Gravy said he
is grateful to the haspital for
allowing Tri-Star to use the facili-
ty for the second time. Mickey,
Alfey’s baby in Look Who's Talk-
ing, was also born at LGH.

“I'd like to convey the com-
pany'’s thanks to the staff of
Lions Gate Hospital for being so
cooperative,”’ said Gray, «who lives
on the North Shore. ‘‘Maybe we'll
be back in a year’s time and do it
all again.”

Look Who's Talking, which
follows the adventures of accoun-
tant Alley and cabbie Travolta,
has enjoyed enormous success,
having grossed over $14] milion
in the North American market
alone.

Filming for Look Who's Talk-
ing Too, with Roseanne Barr as
the voice of Julie, will continue
in Vancouver unt) Aug. 17, after
which it moves to New York for
the final week on Aug. 24.

*fAs Iranian-Canadians we expect that the
government. of Canada pays more attention to

response in the aftermath of the
disaster has been immediate.

“And we really welcome it —
except the government of Canada.
Three hundred thousand
dollars...1 think the people of fran
expect more aid and assistance
from the government of Canada.
That’s very important,”’ he said.
“The job (here) is being done by
many, many good Iranians. As
Iranian-Canadians we expect that
the government of Canada pays

Son be Ahete WAN ae on en

Mohammad Dadbeh

more attention to this and very
urgently.’”

The earthquake relief centre will
be operating until July 5 at the
Marine Drive location from 8:30
a.m. to 9 p.m. daily. Afier July 5,
the relief centre will move to a
new address nearby.

For more information call the
relief centre at 980-6401.

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