8 - Wednesday, October 21, 1992 — North Shore News

Multicultural society schedules |
forum on constitutional accord

THE NORTH Shore
Multicultural Society will
present a community forum
on the Charlottetown con-
stitutional accord referen-
dum on Oct. 23 at 7 p.m. at
Carson Graham secondary
school, 2145 Jones Ave.,
North Vancouver.

Representatives on the Yes side
of the debate will include North
Vancouver-Lonsdale NDP MLA
David Schreck and former North
Vancouver District mayor Marilyn
Baker.

Speakers on the No side of the
issue will include Nationa! Action
Committee on the Status of
Women vice-president Shelagh
Day and Norman Morrison of the

CONSTITUTIONAL
QUESTION

Friends of B.C. Committee.

The forum’s moderator will be
North Vancouver City Coun.
John Braithwaite.

For more information,
983-6445.

call

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October 28, 1992

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Open House 5:00-7:00 pm

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ordered to remove
structure from creek

A NORTH Vancouver.

District resident's attempt
to improve and ‘‘beautify”’
his property has resulted in

a B.C. Supreme Court hear-’

ing and the possibility of
charges being filed against
him by the provincial
Ministry of Environment.

. By Martin Miilerchip
Contributing Writer

On Oct.:13, Mr. Justice R. R.
Holmes declared Joseph Molnar
of 3182 Paisley Rd. to be in vio-

lation of the district’s Watercourse

Bylaw.

The judge granted the district’s
application for a restraining order
preventing any further work on a
retaining wall that Molnar had
erected within Mackay Creek.

District. council then held an
Oct. 13 hearing and determined
that Molnar’s work constituted a
nuisance as defined by the
Municipal Act.

Council’s decision will require
Moinar to remove all his ‘‘im-
provements’? and return the
creekbed and slopes to their natu-
ra} state under the supervision of
the district by Oct. 23 or pay to
have the district do the work
itself.

Molnar’s troubles began in
April 1991 when, according to the

NORTH VANCOUVER
DISTRICT COUNCIL

federal Department of Fisheries
and Oceans (DFO), he ‘‘placed
some material in the stream in an
attempt to divert the flow away
from the eroding west bank’’ of
Mackay Creek, which runs
through his property.

After being told by DFO of-
ficials to remove the material,
Molnar made an April 20 applica-
tion to the Ministry of Environ-
ment to build bank stabilization
works within Mackay Creek.

The DFO described the plans

‘ forwarded with the application as

‘*totally inadequate,’’ and
Moinar’s application was subse-
quently turned down.

But Molnar continued to build
a cement stab barrier wall within
the creek, which resulted in -the
district receiving complaints earlier
this year.

A report to council from en-
vironmental protection officer Mel
Kotyk noted that district inspector
Bob Warwick was ordered off
Molnar’s property and told that
he would be charged with tres-
passing if he returned.

Kotyk said that further com-
plaints received on Sept. 19
resulted in a site inspection that
showed ‘‘a cement slab wall con-
structed into the creek blocking
approximately 30% to 40% of the

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