Seymour school supp

Friction over
road access
to NVD site

By Jan Noble
News Reporter

A church congregation
trying to get a school
built on its Seymour
lands was buoyed by a
North Vancouver
District council deci-
sion Feb. 24.

But others didn't like the
way the decision was
reached, ;

Council gave third reading
to a rezoning bylaw that
would allow the construction
of what will eventuaily be a
Grade 1 to 7 school ar the St.

Pius X Parish at the corner of

Mount Seymour Road and
Mount Seymour Parkway.
“We're thrilled,” said
parish building committee
members Stephen O’Neill.
“The bit of extra work (coun-
cil) asked us to do is not a
delay to the project at ali.”

‘ The rezoning bylaw had
been controversial due to traf-
fic concerns. Neighbors on
bordering Brockton Crescent
wanted a new exit built from
the 1.5-hectare (3.8-acre) site
to Mount Seymour Road.
They worried that the 196
extra vehicles expected on
Brockton Crescent when the
school. reaches capacity in
approximately five — years
would arrive at times the
street was already busy.

In addition, residents said
it was not appropriate to
dump 200 cars on to
Brockton at a point where the
street curves and another
street feeds to Brockton.

An exit to Mount Seymour
Road required a swap of land
between the province and the
district. Provincial approval
for the swap had been antici-
pated, but council took steps
that indicate the swap may
not be needed.

Council passed a motion
supulating that vehicies will
only be allowed to enter from
Mount Seymour Road and
exit to Brockton Crescent.

That doesn’t sit well with
Brockton Crescent resident
Deanne Mandell. She said
council’s position does not
add ess the safety concerns

ained by the ‘acighbors.
Mandell added) parents will
still use Brockton to drop
children off at the school be
cause she suspects there will
be vehicle lineups to get into
the parish =ooff =~ Mount
Seymour Road.

Also, she said cotneil’s
decision for the one-way traf-
fic flow exiting to Brockton
was made out of the public
eye at a private session by
council.

“We didn’t get to see what
they talked about because it
was a done deal by the time
they came our,” she said.
“We'll go back to council
with this if we see it’s not
working but it’s very discour-
aging.”

Coun. Ernie Crist agreed a
consensus was reached on the
one-way proposal behind

closed doors by councillors.
But he added councillors
spoke on the issue in public
and the decisien and vote
were made in public.

“There’s no hanky panky
going on. Irs nota decision
that was made behind the
backs of the public,” he said.

Coun. Lisa Muri was the
only councillor to vote against
the proposal,

O'Neill called the new
traffic pattern a sninor change
and the group hopes to de
back in front of council in a
few weeks fo get final
approval tor the rezoning.

“There’s no hanky-
panky going on.

Its not a decision that
was made behind the
backs of the public.”
— Coun. Ernie Crist

ONeill added the parish
hopes to get 2 building permit
tor the end of March and be

ng the site in April.

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