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A NORTH Vancouver Recreation Commission proposal (o
build a six-court. indoor tennis facility ‘‘on property adja-

cent (o Bridgeman Park’? was roundly critici

ed Monday

night at North Vancouver District Council.

Two area residents “appeared
before council's operational ser-
vices standing committee to 5
the suggestion.

“You are just scratching the
surface on the amount of opposi-
tion to this,’’ Brian Brown warned.

And Pat Neufeld asked why the
park area on East Keith Road
adjacent to the North Shore
Winter Club was under considera-
tion at all.

“I's not ‘adjacent’ to the park.
Jt sits right in the park. There'll

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be nothing left of the park. Ab-
solutely nothing,’’ said Neufeld.

But, according to the recreation
comunission report, ‘The site is
actually south of the park area
and is mostly cleared and com-
pacted as a parks department soil
preparation area.

“The rectangle which forms the

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facility has some room to move
within the site available to place
the facility closer ta the winter
club to allow for parking or to
preserve trees."’

But Neufeld disagreed.

“Tt just won't take the building
and the parking. There’ll be a
driveway and the river left,’’ she
said.

District director of engineering
services John Bremner told the
committee that staff “have not
Jooked at this in any detail from a
parks perspective.”’

He said the simple task of lay-
ing out the proposed building grid
and assessing such things as tree
loss and potential creek impact
had yet to be done.

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“We may well conclude from
that (thar) it simply will not fit.
More than likely we may feel that
it won't. We are in the middie of
a process started by the rec com-
mission,”’ said) Bremner, which
prompted Coun. Joan Gadsby to
ask why the issue was on the
agenda.

The commission had recom-
mended approval in principle of
the site ‘‘subject to the favorable
review of impact studies’? at its
Oct. 14 meeting.

But director of recreation Gary
Young also pointed out in a letter
to council that the recreation
commission’s report “should be
seen as a preliminary document
intended to encourage discussion

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Capilane All-Blacks, edged the Oldboys 9-6 under beautiful sunny skies. See story

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Bridgeman Park

and further direction from coun-
cil.”

A recreation conmission feasi-
bility study in September 1992 into
suitable sites for the public indoor
tennis facility suggested Murdo
Frazer Park in the district and
Mickey McDougall recreation
centre in the city.

The commission then included
$850,000 in its provisional 1993
capital budget to construct the fa-
cility on the understanding that
the building would pay its own
operating expenses and repay its
capital costs over 10 years.

But when the winter club pres-
ented an informal offer to place a

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