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May 19, 1989 News 985-2131 Classified 986-6222 Distribution 936-1337

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7THE ° _JRTH Shore's two best high school rugby teams battled it out on the field at Kinsmen Stadium Tuesday afternoon as Argyle Secondary and West Vancouver Secondary
competed for top spot in the Seniors Boys’ rugby finals. West Van won the game 12-7 and will go on to the Vancouver District Championships today (Friday). The team will later

compete in the B.C. championships. Above, an Argyle player (in green) passes off to teammate Jack Wendt.

CITY COUNCIL LIMITS HIGHRISES TO BETWEEN 12 AND 18 STOREYS

in Centra

THE 20-YEAR tradition of unlimited building heights in
Central Lonsdale came crashing down Monday night as
North Vancouver City Council adopted a consultant’s rec-
ommendations to resirict building heights to between 12 and
18 storeys along Lonsdale and the Victoria Park areca.

The Aitken Wreglesworth report
updated the 1967 zoning height
and view regulations to limit build-
ing heights to 96 feet along Central
Lonsdale Avenue, to 144 feet

Contributing

along Central Lonsdaie between
the east and west 100 blocks, and

to 120 feet in the Victoria Park
area.
Ald. Stella Jo Dean said the
height restrictions reflected com-
munity feeling about highrise de-
velopment in Central Lonsdale.

“We haven't had an outcry
from people in the Victoria Park
area about highrises there,’’ she
said.

Bui decisions regarding height
restrictions in Lower Lonsdale were

deferred until city staff could make
further reports on zoning alter-
natives available to council.
Council members remain divided
on the direction they might take on
zoning once the reports are filed.
Ald. Rod Clark said the city
must recognize that development is
going to happen, and that build-
igs, such as the 28-storey tower
on the old St. Alice Hotel site,
should be ‘‘balanced’’ with a

iding heights capped

| Lonsdale area

“sprinkling’’ of other highrise
towers.

“I believe that_in the Lower
Lonsdale area we would be foolish
to turn our backs on_highrises
simply because they are highrises,’’
said Clark. ‘‘This is the city of
North Vancouver, not somewhere
out in the boonlands.’”

Clark warned against a six-

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