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classroom. (Terry Peters photo)

Residents reject housing scheme for site
‘Glimmer of hope

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By PAT RICH

- The provincial’ govern-
ment will consider using only

part of the North Vancouver .

Secondary School site for a
courthouse complex. ;

And City council -will be
trying to find any way it can
to save the remainder of the
site and retain the gym-
nasium, playing fields and
tennis courts.

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But time is running out as
the British Columbia
Building Corporation’s

option to buy the whole site
from the school board, with
all buildings levelled, runs
out July 31.

These were the main
conclusions of a public
meeting held Wednesday
night to discuss the future of
the NVSS site.

About 40 local residents
met with representatives of
BCBC, the NV_ School
Board, and members of City
council, and voiced almost
unanimous support for
attempting to save some of
the buildings on the site.

Members of BCBC gave a
presentation in which they
outlined their proposed
plans for the site.

Residents were told a two
storey courthouse complex
consisting of four cour-
trooms, accomodations for
judges, offices, and parking
are planned.

The complex with parking
would take up 2.85 acres,
according to the proposed
plan, leaving an area of
about 1.5 acres upon which
BCBC said housing is
planned to be built.

Numerous members of the

public said they were op-

to any housing on the

site, and building the houses

would necessitate rezoning
the area.

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People are not objecting
to the courthouse, they are
objecting to the use of the
other land,’ said Mrs Webb,
a local resident.

In answer to questions
concerning. the rezoning, Ed
Robinson, the vice-president
of BCBC, said the cor-
poration would be willing to
buy the site even if they
could not get part of the land
rezoned for housing.

Yes we would. buy the
property,” he said. ‘Exer-
cising our option (to buy the
land) is independent of our
applying to council for
rezoning.”

The meeting then moved

on to the issue of the

levelling of all the buildings
on the site.

City council had already
passed a motion before the
meeting, to try and retain
the gymnasium, tennis
courts and playing fields.

‘Would you consider
buying less of the
provided we can work out
the parking you need and the

space you require,’
Alderman Gary Payne asked
Robinson?

*Yes,’ Robinson replied.

City council was
questioned as to whether
they would be willing to buy

the remaining land and
preserve the recreational
facilities,

‘Having counted the votes
of council members present,
it appears City council
would work hard to see if
they could get the funds for
it," Mayor Jack Loucks said.

The next step in the
process will be for BCBC
representatives and City
council to meet and sec if
things can be worked out in
terms of city by-laws.

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In order to build the
courthouse on a smaller site,

the City would have to work.

out exemptions for the
complex so some parking
could be located elsewhere
on a shared basis, and other
by-law regulations would
have to be relaxed.

‘There are going to be
more meetings and decisions
are going to have to be
made,’ Loucks said.

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At this stage they called in
_RCMP bomb disposal ex-
* perts who dismantled the
contraption at West Van-
couver Police headquarters.

Police say the incendiary
device was built out of
model rocket engines, radio
parts and a switch and had |
been designed to explode ; z
‘from it its own heat.

. Detectives involved were
Ron Denney, who led the
investigation along with John

Looije; and Constable David
Weaving.

The bomb device was
discovered at about 11:45
a.m. and by 4 p.m. a juvenile
had been taken into custody.

He was later charged with
possessing an explosive

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appeared in juvenile court in
West Vancouver,-- Wed-
nesday. 7

Police maintain. it is the
same youth who -was
responsible -for the:
firebombing attacks on:
Gleneagles. School earlie
this year.

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For those offences he was

hours of community’ work”
and make restitution of $600
damage.

Police allege the youth
was spotted by a Woodward's
security officer who saw him
acting suspiciously and-
suspected he might be a
shoplifter. The security ©
officer is reported to have .
seen him place the package -
in the store and then leave.

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Police hunt for grabber

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It is the fourth such attack
reported to the RCMP sincé
‘April and ‘the assaults have
occurred about every three .
weeks.

One of the assaults took
place at the roof car parking
level. In each case the
women have resisted and the
grabber has fled immediately
after the incident.

Police are on the lookout
for a man aged 25-28, 5 ft. 5

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in. to 5 ft. 7 in. tall, who has
blond hair in a style over his
ears. Thursday he was
wearing a long sleeved tan.
shirt and matching pants.

A police spokesman said
of Thursday’s assault: “It
would appear similar to.ones

that have happened there
before.. He touched her
breasts, which is similar to
the other incidents.

“All have been at Capilano
Mali. and they're all very
similar:“All happened in the _
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