_ Make land from water A2 - Wednesday, June 22, 1983 - North Shore News strictly personal by Bob Hunter AS IT SEE IT, there is a terrific solution to the Greater Vancouver Problem. The probiem, of course, is the fact that the city and its neighboring areas, like the North Shore, are caught between the mountaims, the deep blue sea, the Blaine border .and frozen agricultural land. That’s why there’s all this fuss about increasing density in the urban region. That doesn't mean, as you might have suspected, that civic planners want to make everyone stupider, although that’s liable to be one of the HOLLY BURN Country Club officials will find out Mon- day whether or not they can blow $400,000 on a bubble. The club has asked West Vancouver council to amend the club’s land use contract so that it can erect a bubble over four tennis courts on its property. ; ; But council adjourned its public hearing into the pro- posed bubble for staff reports. “I'm disappointed,” said Tom Baillie, club president. He had hoped to have the go-ahead to announce at Tuesday's annual general meeting. “We have done our best to answer neighbours’ concerns and to allay the fears of the British Properties Home Owners Association. I'm still side-effects. The argument goes that, since it can't expand, the city will either have to go up— a zillion highrises standing shoulder-to-shoulder — or else homes will have to become smaller and more closely packed. - Now, ever since the mid- 50s, when the first studies were done of the behavior of rats in overcrowded cages, it has been common knowledge that beyond a certain point, increased den- Club deflated over bu optimistic that this can be resolved,” he said. He told council Monday that in order to remain finan- cially healthy, the club need- ed greater indoor tennis facilities. Over 90 per cent of the membership approved the plan, he said. And the plan- ners descnbed how they would screen the structure with trees and use special opaque material so that the bubble did not glow at night. But objectors like Wilham Foley of Chartwell Cresent, were concerned that the structure would be = an eyesore and depreciate the value of local homes. “They call it a temporary structure but it could be in our backyard for an in definite tame,” be said. sity means imcreased crime, mental problems and actual physica! illness. Despite this, the heavy thinkers like architect Ar- thur Erickson complain that there aren't enough people living here. The city is too small. Accordingly, he'd like to see clusters of West Ends sprouting all over the isthmus upon which the downtown area is planted. Others hope that as the ALRT system gets going, mini-cities will pop up around the various stations. At the same time, as anyone can see, RVs are And Enc Anderson, also of Chartwell Crescent, com- plained that the site had been chosen for economic reasons without regard for becoming more popular as places of residence than ever. Trailer parks are doing a flourishing business. Despite the balkiness of residents in older neighborhoods, “thin” houses are driving a wedge between the relatively palatial mansions of an earlier era. There are dark predictions that by the year 2000, the size of an average home will have dropped by about a quarter of its current floor- plan. Within a decade (which, as we get older, we learm isn’t a very long time at all) some crucial decisions will have to be made about the future of our cosy little ur- ban complex by the sea. In Vancouver itself, the planning department is talk- ing about doubling the rate at which housing is produc- ed, partially by rezoning more areas for apartments ble hol environment impact. “This is not acceptable,” he said. Alderman also asked the club to respond to neighbors’ complaints that it has allow- WV apartment dwellers elderly HEADS of West ments, households in Vancouver = apart- townhouses) and duplexes tend to be mature age. of a The mean age of the head SHERWIN WilWaMs of the household among apartment tenants is 63, shghtly higher thao that of apartment owners at 61 and eight years older than that of townhouse and = duplex owners at 55. 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The water in English Bay certainly isn't any deeper than the tideflats which were reclaimed by the Dutch from the North Sea. In_ fact, Enghsh Bay is about the most shallow inlet to be found anywhere along the coast. A man-made island in the middle of English Bay could ed trees on its property to grow too tall, view of the city. “This is something that perhaps we can deal with at the same time as this amend- ment,” suggested Alderman Diane Hutchinson. obstructing only (C5 fora 200g box of HOSTESS POTATO CHIPS where?? ...8ee page A11 . Py OPENED eee 3 Sen NO nonesuch DAYS O easily provide the required additional housing. It could be the size of the downtown core and Stanley Park com- bined while still leaving plen- ty of room for sailing, wind- surfing and parking freighters. You could set up another PNE out there, marinas, markets, maybe even move the aquarium. How about a giant statue facing out to Georgia Strait? W.A.C. 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