Church raises concerns

Dear Editor:

Regarding your sory, Nov. 27,
of the 76-faot steeple proposed for
the new Roman Catholic church
on Keith Road, West Vancouver, it
is not true that the neighborhood
has been canvassed for opinion.

Some of us have protested from
the conception of this plan to ra-
tionalize all North Shore church
activities. The result has been an
increase in traffic and parking
problems during church and school
activities.

On Nov. 3, 1986 I spoke before
council and the fast act of that dy-
ing administration was to approve
the Development Variance Permit
#86-17. Now a new touch has been
added: the addition of a 76-foot
steeple plus a cross and possibly a
bell.

My immediate concern is traffic
and safety and this could be reliev-
ed by allowing an entry and exit on
Burley Drive which runs parallel to
Keith Road. However, | am op-
posed to the creation of a North
Shore cathedral.

Ald. Rod Day’s remark on

traditional village architecture nas
little to do in this day and age of
the conflict with regulations per-
taining to church building in RS3
zones.

One stresses the residential
character of the Cedardale area
and how if equipped the single
homeowner is when faced with a
large development buttressed by a
great number of the faithful and
aided by an experienced architect-
cum-public relations expert.

The long history of this
development shows how a church,
which pays no property taxes, can
out-manoeuvre a_ succession of
councils, residents and ratepayer
groups. One starts to feel like the
camel driver, who invited the
camel to put its head into the tent
because of inclement weather and
ended up outside the tent the next
morning.

No one opposes a place of wor-
ship but the city fathers did not in-
tend its regulations to be nibbled
into non-conforming structures.
Jim McKenzie
West Vancouver

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