10 — Friday, September 27, 1996 - North Shore News

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allowed by council

By fan Noble
News Reporter

WEST Vancouver coun-
cil approved a contro-
versial garage Monday
night and gave owners
"permission to use a
“portion of 23rd Street
‘favored by pedestrians.

In doing so, councillors
sided with staff but went
against the wishes of the. vast
majority of speakers who
addressed council on the issue
during a public hearing.

Those opposed fear the
cars using 23rd south of
Bellevue will pose a hazard to
pedestrians, who enjoy a green
walkway that some consider
park,

However, councillors
noted that with the approval,
the area, which is now a road

allowance, could soon become
a park,

By granting the owners of
the non-conforming garage
use of the roadway, the owners
will allow the city to ‘close
23rd Street south of the drive-
way to traffic. Owners on the
east side of 23rd have already
agreed to the closure.

The road allowance has
been landscaped with park
benches and plants.

Staff said improvements to

the intersection of 23rd and =

Bellevue provide for a_ safe
pedestrian route across the
driveway,

Councillors rejected a plan
which would have seen a dri-
veway from 2302 Betlevue to

Bellevue, Staff recommended -

that the proposal be dropped
because landscaping = on
Bellevue would ‘be reduced
and vehicles would be forced
to back across a sidewalk.

$200,000 spent on process
By lan Noble
News Reporter

A long-awaited land-use study for the Versatiic
Shipyard’s waterfront site has been launched.

The study is a joint effort of North Vancouver City;
Coopers and Lybrand, the receivers for Shieldings Inc. (the
indirect owner of most of che Versatile site) and Vancouver
Port Corporation, which owns a large clink of real estate that
is mainly water south of the
Shieldings property.

The three partners have
chosen the consulting team
of Coriolis Consulting Corp.
and Hotson Rakker
Architects to conduct the
$200,000 study.

Jay Wollenberg, president
of Vancouver-based Coriclis,
expects the study to be a
complicated exercise.

The three sponsors and
the public all must be satis-
fied by the final outcome, he
said, While one stakeholder looks for public access, another
will want the plan to accommodate urban development and
another will be looking for the retention of heritage values.

“There will be lots of expectations,” he said. “The trick
will be to meet most of those.”

He said consultants will put together a detailed inventory
of the site’s physical capabilities.

At the same time, consultants will determine what can be
profitably run on the premises. Engineering work on how to
service the 16.88-hectare (42.2-acre) site east of Lonsdale also
needs to be done.

In addition, there’s the environmental issue of soil conta-
mination, Wollenberg explained that there’s a lot of junk left
over from the site’s shipbuilding days, which began in 1906.

Shipbuilding, he said, involves sandblasting, which pro-
duces grit and that grit contains heavy metals.

“The bottom line is the opportunities and the constraints
on the site,” said Wollenberg.

In March, when the city’s finance committee was consider-
ing North Vancouver's $70,000 study contribution, Lower
Lonsdale businesses and citizens’ groups told the News they

“There will be
lots of expecta-
tions. The trick
will be te meet
most of those.”

- Coriolis presinent
Jay Wellenbarg

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