Al0 - Wednesday, December 2, 1981 - North Shore News

Ellsworth
Dickson

New stiffer penalties have come down for
driving offences. Persons convicted of
drinking-driving, hit-and-run, or dangerous
driving will receive an automatic six-month
suspension. If you drive with a suspended
sentence you will go to jail for at least seven
days. If you speed 30 kilometers over the
limit, you can get a fine of $2,000 and lose
your licence.

Today’s question is:
“What do you think of the new
_ Stifter driving penalties?’

Paul Hollingshead
- North Vancouver
I'm certainly in favor of
stiffer penalties. I don't
know if they will work.
_ More and more I see very
aggressive and unsafe
driving. Something has to
be done.

Stephen Kuperschmidt
Vancouver

I like the new stiffer
penalties and I am sure
they will be a deterrent. I
have lived in. cities all
across Canada and I think
B.C. drivers are the
worst. It is time
something is done.

Jim Gadsden
Ladysmith, B.C.

Right now, there are
too many drunk and bad
drivers on the road, and if
this ts what it takes, I’m in
favor of the — stiffer
penalties.

Laura Basso
North Vancouver

I think it might help. I
sce bad drivers all the
time and I'm glad steps
arc being taken to get
them off the road

Linda Banso
North Vancouver

I behteve these stiffer
penalties will work I
think a lot of people wall
become safer drivers out
of fear

HIGH-DENSITY hou-
sing which may be
destroying the
character of single
family residence areas
without full public
aproval has some North
Vancouver City
aldermen worried. ©

So worried that Aldermen
Ralph Hall and Stella Jo
Dean turned thumbs down
on a rezoning application for
a triplex even though it
conforms to the Community
Plan.

The application for
rezoning a lot at 320 West
13th Street from duplex to

triplex housing was passed

by council, however, with
Aldermen Frank Marcino,
Elko Kroon, Bill Sorenson
and Mayor Jack Loucks
voting in favor.

But Dean, Hall and
Sorenson want to have the
community plan reviewed.

“I'm appalled at what is
happening to the City of
North Vancouver,” Dean
told council.

“Is this where we really
want to go? We are asking
for social problems.”

Sorenson voted for the
development on the basis it
was too far along to stop but

worried openly that the
public hearing process
connected with rezoning

applications has become a
“rubber-stamp process” .

“If we have designated
zoning which is met in the
plans, there’s not too much
council can do,” continued
Sorenson.

“The public hearing is
becoming a fait accompli.”

A public hearing is given
after a development project
has gone through City staff
screening to see if it meets
the requirements of the
community plan, and if it
would be a good develop-
ment.

In the public hearing for
the rezoning bid for 320
West 13th Street, neighbors
complained that’ the
development would take
away their view and have an
adverse affect on the
lifestyle of the
predominantly single family
home area.

But the triplex
development proposed for
the area does conform to the
Community plan, a_ plan
which Alderman Frank
Marcino reminded council it
took over 12 years to
produce, and which is meant
to act as a guide to the City's
development.

“We can't turn down a
development because i
block's somebody's
Marcino complained.

“This one (development)
has gone through all the
hoops.” he said. “It fits the
community plan at a4
when there is 4
shortage of housing

“Now | know what they
mean by red tape.” he ad
ded

Mayor Jack Loucks
reminded Sorenson that one
recent projyect) which staff
had aaid satisfied

view.”

time
desperate

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Call Classified
986-6222

development criteria but
they weren't happy with had
brought a different com-
plaint from the alderman.
“You complained then
that the project had met the
criteria so it should be ac-
cepted,” Loucks told him.

“If we're going to be
honest with our citizens we
have to let them know what

By AVIS HOPKINS

- community plan,

N. VAN REZONING PASSES BUT...

the score is.”
Alderman Gary Payne
voted against the rezoning
on the grounds. the
townhouse project as it was
designed converted too
easily to a six-unit complex.
“I have no disagreement
with the ‘community plan ”
he said.

“My concern is this--if a
triplex is allowed in the
then a
triplex is all that should be

built. There’s already a four-
plex in the guise of a duplex
to the east of the lot.”

Hall told council he
“didn’t buy” the argument
that if the proposal satisfied
the requirements of the
community plan, it should
be passed by council.

. “I believe in the. public
hearing process,” he said.
“And after the public
hearing, there are several
things I'm not happy with.”

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