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November 2, 1980

Tel. 985-2131 Classified 986-6222

RESIDENTS
PROTEST

NV fire

training

centre:

‘not on
our block’

By SUSAN CARDINAL-
Tempers flared at a By NOEL WRIGHT and BILL BELL
‘public... information A crucial public hearing before West Van-

meeting Thursday over couver council Monday night may decide once
a nhew fire and for all whether.the: municipality is to have any
centre “planned for~a further highrise apartments. .

three . acre ~ site - bor. At issue is the application 33-suite apartment building
dering the east side o of Esteem Investments. at 1972 Bellevue Avenue in
Lynn Creek in N bes Limited to build a 17-storey, West Van's existing highrise

Vancouver.

About forty local residents
attended to voice complaints
about the choice of location
and the increased traffic
noise they allege would
result from having the centre
in the area.

Local resident cith
Spofforth said the trict
plan to extend the use of the
proposed facility to the West
Vancouver Fire Department
to cut costs would add even
more traffic.

“Right now, I think the
traffic is too heavy. I really
don't want to see it increasc,
he said, “especially because
of all the little children
crossing streets to go to the

Lynnmore' Elementary
School.”
Mayor Don Bell, who

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SUNDAY:
Cloud and showers,
rematning ansettled.

MONDAY:
Little change.

“WRECKER’S ON THE WAY...” Crane operators called in
to clear up the mess Thursday evening cool their heels while
waiting to get going. The derailment -- reason for which was
unknown -- took place when three cars jumped the track

HEARING ON ‘DOWN-ZONING

apartment zone.

Council is proposing a
zoning bylaw amendment
which would effectively
“down-zone” remaining
pockets of land in the area
from highrise to low-density
multiple housing with a

maximum, height of three

photo)

storeys.

The council proposal —
which is in conformity with
the new Community Plan
and the Eikos design report
adopted last -year — would
mean, in practice, an end to
further residential highrise
building in West Van.

around 9:30 p.m. about 100 yards west of the B.C. Rail
passenger station at the foot of Pemberton. (lan Smith

The application by:Esteem

Investments first. came

before council last July and
was rejected by the council's
policy and planning com-
mittee.

At a later council meeting

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