et paicerntmeran teas, sage he Swe, EMA INT Rt taney CHU tein SA RD he peter “Brour, say8 it fi battles. eight Cre red THE VOICE OF NORTH AND WesT VANCOUVER , April 26, 1985 News 935-2131 Classified 986-6222 Circulation 986-1337 | 68 pages 25¢ SADE — ‘Eno ONE better knows. the vatue of peace than Bthose WhO have known WAT. . a On Apr 28, approximate i clude a and discus sions. with five different RUS" sian vetef4h Organizations. - The tout Organized py the Russian Canadian Friendship ‘Association Of Canada, is ‘Biargely it COMMemorarion 0 the 40th @nMiversary of Y.E: day, May 7.1945, tot west B vancesver’s Herb: Chas, a Bformer S€COnd jieyrenant B with the Canadian Corps 0 Signals, who 'S joining the avill be much ore n eré remembrance. ‘of m past » “This }§ NOt a siphtsecin’ B tour. WE WAN to let everyone know that 88 Wong war I vererans: WE N the West are Arnot in f4VOr OF the current By TIMOTHY.RENSHAW nuclear rearmament of both the Soviet Union and the United States. The policy is impoverishing both West and ast.*? VMNp member, Coi, Notm Hoye, says the na- _ tional organization is based in Halifax. A_ local B.c, branch of the VMND is now being formed. Its aims, he Says, are to educate people from a military point of view that nuclear weaPons have become much more a threat to man’s future than a key to his defense. Oye says that, for him, the tour will not only allow insight into Russia itself, but insight into Russian veterans . «*We wanl to hear what they have tO Say about nuclear “djsarmament and theatre their ue with Ose e U.S. N ATO! th and The travel agency handling the tour is Toronto’s Cansov Travel Ltd. The tour's agen- — ; da will include stops in Moscow, Minsk, Leningrad, Kiev, and Odessa. Both Clark and Hoye hope the tour will help improve understanding and relation- ships ostensibly between those who have known the horrors of war but ultimately between those who have not. “We may not.agree on one another’s policies,’’ says Clark, ‘‘but we have to live and they have to live. It is not just the immediate threat of nuclear disaster but the grow- ing threat of world starvation and ecological breakdown. It is worth the concern of the USSR and the rest of the world to be aware of the critical situation we are all in. An understanding has to be ° found.” Veterans interested in the ° tour Or the VMND itself will find a contingent at Van- couver’s Annual Walk For Peace, Saturday, April 27. Oto Terry Peters part — mt 9 o _ e VETERAN FOR PEACE. Second World War veteran, Herb Clark, of West Vancouver displays the concern for peace and an end to the arms race that he and a group of fellow veterans are taking to Russia, April 28. . foker townhouses rejected North changed Comprehensive ‘development. “As. the bylaw Stands, the recommenCe? density is o 12 units per acres while ¢%¢loper “Grahasm “MacLean’s Ploposal allows . A 43-UNIT townhouse COMPlex proposed for the «old ‘Stoker’ Farm, propert “was rejected by "Monday: ¥ at 29¢h and Lonsdale Vancouyey City Council for 15.9 units pet acre on the three-acre site. Appearing before council, MacLean said the density factor of the Proposed townhouses waS NAO the issue, but rather the concept for the townhouses is what MuURicipal sta Were dissatisfied with. ity planner White confirmed Richard By BARRETT FISHER | ing MacLean Management produces good quality hous-: ing, but the standards were’ not high enough for the prime piece of property. The proposed housing “are udlitarian in. units design and function,’ White said. quality in finishings.”” Director F. Morris of development and said in his recommendation “They are not high expensive licensing. to council, ‘‘the history of this property, its site and the particulars of this proposal, suggest to staff that this property is one upon which council would expect high quality housing to enhance property values in the area rather than to have a neutral or negative effect.” Said Ald. Stella Jo Dean: ‘MacLean proposed 45 units and was rejected and now the proposal is for 43 units — 1! more than the Official Community Pian allows for. If you’re going to ask for 34 per cent more density, then we can ask for high quality buildings.”’ ' Ald. Dana Taylor said the eight to 12 unit density was a more realistic guideline in better economic times rather than now. He added it would be a shame to lose the project ‘‘at a time when it would pay a full tax base and employ contractors.” MacLean Management Ltd. would have built the non-profit rental housing for the Greater Vancouver Housing Corporation. MacLean told the News he plans to persevere with a proposal but that he doesn’t “have a method of attack at this point.”’ “! think we’re just going to have to go back to the drawing board,’’ MacLean ‘said, Sussex Realty purchased the Stoker property in January, 1981 for $1.88 mil- lion. The real estate market slumped and the property went into receivership in 1981-82. Canadian Imperial Bank now owns the property.