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zoning to control

housing sizes abandoned at
outset of NV public meeting

By Martin Millerchip
Contributing Writer

PROPOSED ZONING rep-
ulations to increase restric-
tions on the allowable size
and height of new single-
family homes built in estab-
Nished Worth Vancouver
District neighborhoods were
rejected by council members
and residents at a public
meeting held on Tuesday
night.

It was all over but the shouting
before it even started.

A crowd of over 150 North
Vancouver residents packed
district hall to debate the. issue,

- but the hearing was closed and the
“roposed bylaw. was killec! before

“ngle voice from the public was

wd.

Mayor Murray Dykeman_ in-
formed the crowd that ‘‘a poll"
of council had shown ho support
for the proposed bylaw and that

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there was no point in proceeding
with the hearing.

Instead he proposed a public
information meeting would take
its place,

Dykeman said council would be
debating a staff proposal at its
neat nteeting that would establish
meetings with community groups,
ratepayer associations, the
district’s advisory design panel
and advisory planning commission
to discuss the concept of neigh-
borhood zoning.

Almost all of the speakers cx-
pressed relief that council was not
proceeding with the bylaw,

But some in the gallery were
angry.

“Is this type of fiasco going to
rear its head next time? A lot of
people have had their time wasted
here tonight,’’ said Barry Jackson,

The proposed bylaw amend-

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Snow a ‘time bomb,
elder brother testifies

DAVID ALEXANDER Snow has been ‘‘a walking time
bomb all his life’? and his family has suffered much stress
in trying to cope with the crimes the 37-year-old Ontario
man has been convicted of, Snow’s older brother testified
Thursday in North Vancouver provincial court,

“{ would like to turn the clock
back. | would have liked to have
‘done things differently, He’s my
brother.

“t would have liked to have
talked to him. 1 would still like to
talk to him,’’ Victor Snow said
during a court hearing to deter-
mine whether David Snow should
be designated as a dangerous of-
fender.

He added that his brother’s
personal hygiene had also con-
cerned his family for the last 20
years.

“1 tried to encourage him to
find some stability in his life. He
could not hold down a job. He
basically laughed at me.

“t said ‘think about your per-
sonal behavior. The fact that you
don’t’ shave, the fact that you
don’t bathe." He said: ‘lam what
I am and I can’t. change,’ “said
Snow.

He added that he also tried to
encourage his brother to seek
psychiatric help but that his

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News Reporter

urother refused.

Victor Snow testified that he
was forced on about five or six
occasions to cover bad cheques
David Snow had written.

Snow said he was ‘‘repulsed’’
when he found a box of por-
nographic magazines and a box of
about 50 videos, most of which
were pornographic, belonging to
his brother,

“T said to him: ‘You're my
brother. I love you. T want to help
you and you have to start thinking
about tomorrow.

“He said: ‘tl live for today,
said Victor Snow, who is
employed as an executive with a
major Ontario corporation,

David Snow avoided eye contact
with his brother during his  testi-
mony and took notes of what was
being said.

See Snow hearing page 3.

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Tobacco road

THIRTEEN-YEAR-OLD Kaima Bazar was able to buy cigarettes from four of 11
Lonsdale Avenue stores on Monday. It is illegal to sell cigarettes to
youngsters under 16, but merchants currently face relatively minor conse-
quences for breaking the law. See page 8 for story.

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