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Who says you can't fight city hall?

All over the North Shore citizens’ groups are

now fighting city hall (or municipal hail) on
development issues with an increasing number of
successes. Pierre Elliot Trudeau once called it
‘‘participatory democracy”’.

A better name

be plain, old-fashioned comrhonsense.

The latest example came
last-Wednesday when West

_ Vancouver council. in a close

tie vote,.turned thumos down
on a proposed condominium
apartment . development
sought by International Land
Corporation at 24th and
Bellevue.

Ceuncil’s rejection of the
scheme followed a_ lively
public meeting six weeks
earlier, at which local resi-

dents solidly opposed the

project on the grounds that it
would shut out a wide area of
waterfront view, cause in-
creased traffic congestion
and constitute a hazard for
emergency vehicles.

International Land is only
one of the numerous deve-
lopers taking their lumps in
West Vancouver at the
‘present time. .

CONFRONTATION STAGE

Last fall a proposed marina
-expansion at Fisherman's
Wharf also bit the dust as the
-result of an angry outcry
from its would-be neighbors
-- who saw in it nothing but
‘increased traffic, loss of view
-and impairment of existing
boating facilities for the
locals. - .

Currently in the confran-

tation stage are proposals for,

an‘eventual 3,000-unit hous-
ing development above the
‘Upper Levels Highway bet-
ween British Properties and
the Cypress Park access
road, and another mountain-
side rezoning scheme west of
Cypress Park Estates.

Strong resident protests
also seem to have induced
caution in council's approach
toa planned ‘*development"’
of wild and beauiiful Capi-
lano Canyon Park on the
castern edge of British

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council remains under con-
‘stant pressure by citizen
groups from Horseshoe Bay
to Cedardale to do something

Heevitaay cared Lene

about the _ traffic chaos

threatened by the $20 million.

expansion of Park Royal
South at the bottleneck
entrance to the municipality
along Marine Drive.

HIGH DENSITY REJECTED
‘North Vancouver commun-

ities. are no less vocal in
defence of their quality of

—dife.

Last’ fall citizen action
persuaded North Van District
council -- after months of
fence-sitting -- to reject a
high-density housing deve-
lopment proposed by Grouse
Mountain Resorts Ltd. at the
foot of the mountain.

Seymour residents have
made their voices heard loud
and clear in a comprehensive
two-year planning study for
the long- -term future of their
area.. The ~ Myrtle Park
neighborhood is still gamely
fighting what it considers to

be certain obnoxious features .
‘of the planned new Eastern

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In Deep Cove .a similar

fight over council’s decision

to zone part of the. village
core to residential (instead of
mixed residential and com-
mercial, as preferred by a
majority of the inhabitants) i is

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the moment is.being waged —

by the Ridgeway Ratepayers

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which would allegedly block

the waterfront view from as_

far north as Sixth Street, as
well as causing increased
noise and other forms of
pollution in the area.

COUNCIL INVADED

Monday night after Mon-
day night the highly vocal
Ridgeway group invades
North Van City council
chambers demanding cancel-
lation of the whole project --
to which council. absent-
mindedly gave the go-ahead
last fall. So heated has the
confrontation become that
the president: of. the. rate-
payers’ association was
thrown out of councii cham-
bers last week by an angrv
Mavor Tom Reid.

And so it goes on. Back in
West Vancouver: Dr. Bob

Long called me the-other day.
about yet another develop-.

ment now quietly getting

under way there at the foot of
18th Street, on about the last:

empty waterfront: site left
along West Van's. “highrise
allev’’. When completed, “i

will be a 12-storey, 30. suite

“apartment tower built by

Eccom Developments Ltd. of

_North Vancouver,

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