A8 - Wednesday, November 16, 1983 - North Shore News

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W. Van's big
election issue

Dear Editor:

lt has been suggested by
some people that this year
has no main election issue for
West Vancouver’s alder-
manic candidates to take up.
However, if the views ex-
pressed by many individual
residents of Ambleside and
representatives of the various
community associations is
anything to go by, then
something really big has in-
deed the majority worried.
This is the future of
Ambleside Park and adjoin-
ing Ambleside village water-
front lands. Over the years, a
considerable sum of tax-
payers’ money has been ex-
pended to purchase privately
owned waterfront properties,
and to enhance the
Ambleside Park facilities. At
the present time, the
Municipality has just agreed
to purchase the thirteenth of
Ambleside houses still in use,
leaving nineteen remaining to
be acquired under the 1975
acquisition policy. Further,
over 26 acres of Ambleside
Park has now been returned
to the Squamish Indian
Band.

lt is quite possible that the
Squamish Indian Band will
wish to realise the true value
of these lands by promoting
some large building project,
such as apartments and com-
mercial developments.

Ambleside by the Sea Water-
front’ programme review
1983, discussion paper put
out to the community
associauions for comment, is
very decidedly biased
towards developments along
Ambleside’s waterfront
lands.

The Ambleside Ratepayers
Association takes issue on the
trend by the elected govern-
ments at all three levels. This
seems to be a course to follow
the expediency of foregoing
some of the most exciting and
beautiful of parklands in the
lower mainland, and
negating on achieving the full
potential to provide more of
this parkland for a growing
North Shore community.
This is in spite of the fact that
these areas are amongst the
most used of public lands in
the municipality.

A short term bonanza
seems likely for the owners of
these lands, and for
developers with big ambi-
uons: make no mistake about
it, they know it!

The candidates can and

Allow no up-zoning of waterfront

Dear Editor:

As a property owner in
Ambleside | object strongly
to any up-zoning of water-
front property between 17th
and 18th on Argyle Ave. We
do not need any more apts.
on waterfront land. The re-
Maining property owners
should not reap huge profits
with apartment development.

This is the last natural
beach front in West Van-
couver. We should purchase
this land for park use so that
future generations will thank
us for having had the
foresight. It is more impor-
tant than ever now that the
cut-off lands at Ambleside
have been returned to the
Squamish [Indian Band.

Make Lower
Lonsdale
the ‘focus’

Dear Editor:

it’s election time again in
the City of North Vancouver,
and the council to be elected
will face the challenge of
guiding the redevelopment of
the lower Lonsdale area. My
late father, Derek, as Chair-

It is a betrayal of past
municipal policy if these pro-
perties are allowed to up-
zone their land for apartment
use.

I believe the municipality

should buy the properties,
when owners wish to sell at
fair market value as now zon-

ed, so that such properties

VOTE FOR

STRONG
REPRESENTATION

could be reserved for park
use.

Joanne Webb
West Vancouver

On West Vancouver School Board

RE-ELECT

man of the Lonsdale Quay
Development Corporation,
had hopes that Lower

must state clearly where they
stand on these very important
issues. Your vote NOW will

decide the fate of these Lonsdale could become an
precious lands for future ¢€X¢iting and attractive focus
generations. for the whole North Shore. |

have the same hopes and am
E.H. McKay, President personally pleased to see

Ambleside Ratepayers

Equally, the Municipality’s Association such as former alderman
John Braithwate, seeking
election again to City
council.

Rob Inman
North Vancouver

for SCHOOL BOARD

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