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Homeowners misinformed about group home

Dear Editor:

The controversy over
establishing a group home at
953 Gladstone shows what
can happen when an
arrogant bureaucracy and
misinformation combine to
arouse homeowners. con-
cerned with the livability of
their communities and the
welfare of their own
families.

Rumours were widely
circulated that the children
involved are young offenders

District must decide what it wants

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Dear Editor:

Being as the council of the
day felt they had such
authority vested in them as
to commission a _ report
which would expose a
segment of the community
ie. BEAK REPORT, this
council would at the outset
be committed to act on its
findings and not simply
because the findings were
more unnerving than they
were prepared for, fail to
address the findings in any
positive way as residents of
the North Shore must live
with these findings.

Bearing in mind that the
original locating of Hooker
Chemical Co. in its present
location was done under
protest by local residents at
that time and the council of
that time allowed a
dangerous industry to locate
in this location, the
following councils, more
particularly the majority of
the present council allowed
further residential
development in very sen-
Sitive areas.

Obviously its time council
decided once and for ail
which they want. High
profile dangerous industry or
environmentally safe in-
dustry in keeping with
quality residential en-
vironments instead of the
haphazard mix that council
appears to lean towards.

I never even knew they
manufactured chlorine at
Hooker Chemicals Co.
Incidentally, if there was a
spill no one has any control

(this statement was included
in the petition that was
circulated), and that
children from Vancouver
were being imposed on our
District.

The residents of this area
were alarmed, fearing that
these children may be
destructive, that their own
children would be adversely
affected, that the neigh-
bourhood would deteriorate,
and that property values
would decline.

over prevailing winds or the
area a chiorine cloud could
cover. One of the most
disconcerting aspects of a
spill is there is no escape for
most residents of Seymour
or Maplewood as Hooker
sits right at the exit.

It is stated in Beak, the
chance of a chlorine spill
and a resulting cloud is
small, but nevertheless the
residents are taking an in-
voluntary risk and it must be .
viewed with concern.

To quote Mr. Walkiey of
the CHEMICAL HAZARD
ALERT COMMITTEE,
“Perhaps Hooker is in the
wrong place at the wrong
time.” J have a right to peace
of mind and a right to feel
safe in my own home.

S.L. McKay
North Vancouver

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The facts, as they were
revealed to District Council,
are that most of the children
are from the North Shore,
they are not young of-
fenders, they are children
whose parents, for one
reason or another, have not
been able to take care of
them, and that we already
have one such group home
in Lynn Valley that has not
had any negative effects on
the community.
thermore, only five children,

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aged 6 to 16, are involved.
What does stand out is
that the Ministry of Human
Resources had no business
going ahead with such a
project without consulting
District Council or the
residents of this area. If the
whole matter had been
thoroughly explained right
from the beginning, all this

trouble may have been
avoided.
My position is that I

strongly believe that we have

a responsibility to our
children that we should not
evade or try and sluff off to
some other municipality. |
must also guite frankly say
that I do not agree with
those who want a guarantee
that none of these children
have “ever been before the
courts for reasons of
delinquency.”

Let’s not forget that
almost every street in our
District has some children
who have got into trouble

and many of them come

from
homes.”
However, I do believe that
no such group homes should
be established without the
consent of the residents of
the neighbourhood or
without the consent of our
District Council. These are
elementary democratic

perfectly “good

rights that must be observed.
Ernie Crist
Alderman

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