Versatile plans perturbing

Dear Editor:

Is anybody interested in
seeing what impact buildings
that are proposed in the city’s
plans for the Versatile lands
would have? Then go and take
a look at the 20-storey build-
ing on the south side of East
Second Street at St. Georges
Avenue.

According to the city’s
plans up to four buildings of
that size could be allowed in
one block along Esplanade
between St. Georges and
Lonsdale.

Further south on the lands
an additional three to four 16-
to 20-storey buildings could
be built.

View corridors have been
mentioned. Sounds great.
That is if you are in line with
the corridors. But at almost
any angle the buildings would
appear to form a solid view
blocking wall.

Even seen from as high up
as East Keith Road, the build-
ing at East Second Street
blocks out everything behind
it.

The wend in North
Vancouver seems to be to
build highrises at the water-
froat. Is this right? I don’t
think so.

The most important prin-
ciple should be to put higher
buildings on top of the hills

Mountainous
memory loss?

Dear Sir:

An open letter to Derrick Humphreys re: Feb 16 “Stop

Cypress Bowl Proposal” letter.

- Trecall as a child feeling bewildered when witnessing my
gtandfather demonstrating powers of selective hearing and con-
venient memory loss when it was of benefit to him.

It was puzzling that a man of such stature could succumb to

a

apparent senility at whim and then revert back to “operating on
pistons” when it best suited him. He was also a wonderful

story-teller, with each telling the tale was just slightly different

but much better.

I also recall a time when Derrick Humphreys, at that time

mayor of West Vancouver, and the District of West Vancouver
as being supportive of the privatization and the development of
Cypress Bowl ski area. It astounds me, Mr. Humphreys, that
you now seem ‘so determined to undermine the very process

that you once endorsed.

Convenient memory loss, Mr. Humphreys, or is the story

just getting better?
N. McDonald
North Vancouver

Don't cater to cry-babies

Dear Editor:

Re: Doug Collins’
Legislative Language Lunacy.

This is Vancouver, British
Columbia, Canada, in case
some people have forgotten.
Doug, as far as we are con-
cerned, has hit the proverbial
nail right on the head. Why in
God’s name would Ms. Kwan
speak in the legislature in
Cantonese? Hello?

Does losing our identity
mean anything to anyone and

Pansies

whatever happened to the old
adage “when in Rome?”

Sure it’s great to see a
diverse culture, but not catered
to at the expense of le like
us who have lived here all our
lives, We suggest Ms. Kwan

et some class and stop this

ind of “Legislative Lunacy”
— do we really need cry-babies
like this running our province?
Bev and Ron Glover
Sheilagh and Bob Patrick
North Vancouver ;

and gradually decrease heights
the closer one gets to the
waterfront.

Bert Hansson

North Vancouver

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