10 - Sunday, September 27, 1987 - North Shore News

DEVELOPMENT SERVICES
WY alderman questions
GVRD planning scheme

LONG-TERM regional planning for Greater Vancouver
may be a necessity, according to GVRD manager Mike

O'Connor, but West

Vancouver

Ald. David Finlay is

doubtful whether his district will benefit from this costly

service.

The Greater Vancouver Regional
District (GVRD) wants to take on
the permanent role of development
services, Which it has performed
for focal municipalities on a con-
tractual basis for the past few
years,

“The contracting role gets you
thinking on a monthly and daily
basis — rather than on the long
term,’’ explained O’Connor in his
Sept. 14° presentation to West
Vancouver District Council.

O'Connor said the Greater Van-
couver municipalities require more
continuity in development plann-
ing than can be provided within
the contract system.

“If we don't we're going to
make some serious mistakes,"
O'Connor said.

Hs MAUREEN CURTIS
Contriburas Writer

commute across municipal
borders, i makes a preat deal of
difference how things are coordi-
nated."*

The regional planning that took

place before 1983 was wbolished
by the provincial vovernment as a
result of complaints of interference
in municipal mauers,

But the GVRD would not take
on a regulatory function this cime
through its development services,

“Tthink this is a necessary func:
tion if the municipal’ is to take a
leading role in the establishinent of
pnorities, and have the ability to
participate in the ongoing vision of
what is going to happen to this
area,’ Nicholls told the News.

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Finlay...“°Once we're into it we
can’t get aut.”

“We have some tremendous
choices to make in the next few
years, such as $1.5 billion to $2
billion to spend on transportation
improvements. We don't have a
plan to decide which project
should be done first,’ he added.

The G¥RD proposes to make
developinent services — which in-
clude data processing, transporta-
tion planning, regional develop-
ment strategies and mini studies
for individual municipalities — a
permanent function.

“There won't be a change in the
work we're doing, but rather a
change in focus. This is
housekeeping, really,’’ O’Connor
said.

But Finlay was concerned about
the potential cost and permanency
of the new system.

The GVRD's development ser-
vices currently cose West Van-
couver about $35,000 a year, and
the GVRD is not planning to in-
crease its (approx. $900,000)
budget. But the GVRD would have
the potential ability to levy up to
$125,000 from the district, based
on population.

“Once we're into it we can't get
out,’’ Finlay stated.

Finlay doubted whether West
Vancouver would gain much out
of participation in the GVRD
planning group.

But Mayor Don Lanskail
countered: ‘‘} don't agree. We
cannot think in isolationist terms.
Some 80 per cent of our residents
work elsewhere in the Lower
Mainland.”'

Director of
Nicholls added:

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