A6-Sunday.News, February 24, 1980 editorial page Poisonous lunacy How. about animal bait containing the deadly poison sodium monofluoracetate (Compound 1080) lurking beside the trails on Seymour, Grouse and Hollyburn — even in Lighthouse Park or anywhere else on thie North Shore provided it's a mere kilometre from occupied premises? This is now legal. The Fish and Wildlife Branch — prodded by Kamloops cattlemen whose cows and calves are being killed by marauding wolf packs — has specified some 60 wildlife management units in B.C. where Compound 1080 may be used for the _ “reactive control” of predator wolves and coyotes. One of the units includes the entire North Shore, described as being among the “historic predator-livestock interaction areas.” True, we have the occasional little coyote problem. But the Wildlife Branch's picture of North and West Vancouver as cattle- raising country ravaged by wolf packs is as ludicrous as it is dangerous. Just a few drops of Compound 1080 can kill an adult human. It’s readily absorbed through the skin and there's no known an- tidote. The mere possibility of it ever being used only half a mile or so from our homes and in our backyard mountain playgrounds smacks of bureaucratic lunacy. The Wildlife people should be told, loud and clear, that the North Shore neither needs nor will tolerate Compound 1080. Bylaw for the dogs West Vancouver famous “poop-n’- scoop” bylaw has, apparently, gone to the dogs. In the four years since it was drafted only one criminal has been brought to justice for failing to clean up after his Fido went and did it again in a public place. Vancouver City (which has rashly followed West Van's example) reports similar problems in making its clean-up edict stick. When a law is not only unenforceable but also widely regarded as a joke, it's high time to think again — before respect for the law in general starts to suffer. sunday news north shore news NEWS - ADVERTISING 980-0511 1139 Lonsdale Ave . 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By DR. WALTER BLOCK A book just released by the Vancouver-based Fraser Institute reveals that zoning legislation impedes urban progress in Canada — and in the United States as well. Writing in the new Fraser Institute book, Zoning: Its Costs and Relevance for the 1980s, co-authors Michael A. Goldberg and Peter T. Horwood charge that ‘The windfall profits it was in- tended to control have been instead guaranteed as a result of the quasi-monopoly bestowed on parcels capable of being used at higher uses, while holding surrounding and competing parcels at lower uses.” Dr. Goldberg is Visiting Scholar (1979/80) at Har- vard University and Professor, Urban Land Economics Division, University of British Columbia; Mr. Horwood is a Vancouver planning con- sultant. Among the other findings of the two Canadian economists: e Zoning has not stemmed the tide of declining “TREASON!” loyal West Van lady when we told her of the fresh cried the mutterings about western separatism on this side of the great east-west divide created by last Monday's election. Maybe Queen Victoria felt the same (though didn’t say it) as she watched her Canadian Colonials preparing to set up house on their own at Charlottetown in 1864. Time marches on Youll need new battenes for your pocket calculator to work out your winnings from the latest offemng by the North Shore Community Credit Union — their “Maximizer” savings ac- count which, says Cliff Monteith, voce of — the NSCCU. made financial history when it started last month The credit umons Plonecred dauly decade ago, the interest half yearly Now, the “Maximizer” is the first savings account in Canada to compound daily interest’ dally meaning you carn interest on interestevery 24 hours lo work interest a compounding your out your compared to profit over & year, daily interest Compounded semi annually takes something like 1 100 separate cake ulations henee the need fresh battenes Our went flat afler figuring the thing out for a two week period for but “No, we will not pass the salt.” property values. * Zoning has not promoted neighborhood stability. e Zoning has not minimized the negative effects of supposedly incompatible land uses, such as single family housing and factories. e Zoning is a rigid control, and is likely to fracture during times of change in consumer tastes, neigh- borhood demographic structure, urban growth, and transportation and building technologies. © The maintenance of single family neighborhoods by zoning statutes is also questionable: by keeping land and buildings in the same use over time, zoning can promote neighborhood decay and speed the demise of the single family neigh- borhood. * Contrary to its intended purpose as a mitigator of speculative activity, zoning (and the anticipation of changes in zoning that goes with it) promotes speculation and non-resident ownership. ©The externalities that zoning has been designed to sunday brunch by Noel Wright even that was beginning to look promising. WAIKIKI MON AMOUR: News travel columnist Barbara McCreadie's recent bashing of the Diamond Head island (“On The Beach With Towel To Towel Tourists”, Feb. 6) has brought enraged Waikiki- lovers out in force. Alice Murphy of North Van is typical of the small army of Barbara-bashers who have written of phoned in their protests. Just back from her sixth Waikiki vacation, Mrs. Murphy says: “My reason for writing this, my first letter to an editor. is that | know of people who have never visited Watkiki, who have been put off by Barbara McCreadie'’s negative at titude To you folks on the North Shore our opinion of Waikiki as “Walking in Paradise’) Waikiki ts sand, shops and people ~ Better not go down to the beach there for awhile Barbara Hop straight on the connecting plane for Maui and safety! sun And talking of reputations nearer home West Vans Park Royal Hotel aw fast becoming the “in” enjoying place tor pmres A couple of weeks ago it was Christians Hampson, winnc: of the News’ Flecthon Quiz contest contest whe chose the hostelry lor her free can dielight and wine evening out with hubby. Now. it's Joyce Kersey of North Van who's taking a family foursome there for the prize dinner she won in Capilano Mall's special Valentine Draw. If only PR manager Marto Corsi would set up a hamburger-and-coke bar, he might start getting the runners-up, too. HELP WANTED by Rev. Ed Wallace of St Stephens Church in West Van who's” seeking ac- commodaton in Tiddlycove for a Vancouver School of Theology student and his family Kindly souls) with ideas on how to assist are asked to call the) church office at 926-4381 The News is read tar beyond the boundaries of the North Shore, yudging by two recent letlers Karen The first from Bauer, English teacher at [Dr | BO Mac- Naughton High School in Moncton, N Bo Her class it seems. us studying “Crusoe of Lonesome Lake’. Leland Stowe'’s biography of Ralph Edwards who settled in the wilds of BC back in 19]) and among other things together with his daughter Trudy Edwards Turner helped save the white trumpeter swans from cx tnetion Karen is keen to Contach anyone who knew ameliorate have been shown to be minimal or non- existent. Confronting the charge that zoning is afl that stands between a viable urban environment and the spectre of chaos, Goldberg and Horwood point to “Exhibit A,” the city of Houston — which has never enacted such legislation in its entire history: “The very existence of a large North American city (an area in excess of five hundred square miles and a population of 1.6 million) which can function normally and continue to prow without zoning is a major piece of evidence against the traditional view that zoning supposedly protects against chaos.” Zoning and other land use controls are so much a part of North American life that even the most ardent “free enterpnsers” usually take for granted the sanctity of such controls to protect their residential environment. This book seeks to raise a number of questions about zoning, specifically about recent variants of land use controls. Edwards, a Canadian Award of Meritt winner, and his activities from 1959 onward (when Stowe’s biography ends). If you have memories of him, let’s hear from you. Then there's the letter from Cambridge, Ont. (formerly City of Galt, Town of Preston and Town of Hespeler) which is inviting all former residents to rally there June 28 to July 5S for a grand Homecoming Reunion. According to Mike Goldberg of the Hometoming Committee, it's going to be quite a bash. If you just happen to be an old Galtian, Prestonian or Hespeleran, write to Mike at P.O. Box 963, Cambridge, Ont. NIR 5X9. HITHER AND _ YON: Along Realtors’ Row Sadru Mitha has left Harold Waddell after nine years to join the Sussex firm ... North Van Lions past president Scou Mears is having a crack at being chosen Zone Chairman this year ... sull on the same beat, Ambleside Tiddlycove Lions secretary BO) Seronach and wife Enid have departed (o live in Vernon — and popular Dorts Harkness, who ran the corner store at) 27th near Lonsdale for some 30 years up to last Chnstmas, went home with flowers and a special scroll of appreciation trom oa Bag lunch honor Wed Com Hrown held in her nesday at) Boundary munity Scheool WRIGHT OR WRONG: The mecost thing about today is the thought of what can happen tomorrow