10 - Sunday, January 26, 1992 - North Shore News Council grapples with Garrow Bay Champagne Tastes controversy WEST VANCOUVER businesswoman Marilyn Diligenti revealed to council Jan. 13 ‘the face behind the developer’’ at the centre of the Garrow Bay con- troversy. By Maureen Curtis Contributing Writer Diligenti said she did not see herself as a developer; she said she just wanted to sell one of the three lots she owns in a quiet cor- ner of western West Vancouver, “Some people are concerned that I might make some money on the sale of my property,’’ said Diligenti, whose Champagne Tastes retail clothing business at Garrow Bay has been a source of neighborhood controversy for years. Diligenti told West Vancouver District Council that a recently discussed staff-generated idea for her property would be financially unworkable for her and involve the toss of the boathouse from which she currently runs her business. In the past year, the prime issue in Garrow Bay had shifted from Champagne Tastes, which was largely unwelcome in a residential neighborhood, to a collaborative effort between the municipality and Diligenti to use rezoning to replace the business with a third residential lot. But at the Jan. 13 council meeting, Diligenti took issue with two options presented in a report to council by director of planning Steve Nicholls and parks director Kevin Pike. According to Pike, municipal staff have been “‘grinding through this process"’ for over a year, try- ing to find a solution for the municipality and Diligenti that would also satisfy neighborhood demands for a better public beach and beach access at Garrow Bay. A portion of public foreshore that was filled years ago by an upland owner had more recently been grassed in by Diligenti; its ownership status has contributed to the controversy in neighborhood, which was divided on whether residents wanted the beach and access improved so that it would attract users from outside the area. Pike said that since the last proposal, ‘teven more factions have emerged.’’ the WEST VANCOUVER DISTRICT COUNCIL While everyone agrees that marina use of the third lot is undesirable, the details surroun- ding the rezoning have been a source of disagreement between the Garrow Bay Community Association and the more recently formed Jmperial Avenue Garrow Bay Organization and a group of about 129 petitioners collected by area resident Lucy Crookewit. Pike said staff are out of brilliant ideas and have ‘‘gone back to the basics.’" @ Staff's option one: available if option two doesn’t My; would leave everything just as it is, but remove the marina zoning from the public foreshore and oppose any application to acquire or lease that foreshore — an action that might have legal ramifications if it made it impossible for Diligenti to use her property as it is zoned. @ Option two: gives Diligenti her third residential property, but dedicates the filled foreshore at the foot of the lots as public and involves the relocation (but not residential use) or destruction of the boathouse. While option two was approved by Crookewit's group and Roy Bartholemew of the Glencugles Ratepayers, Diligenti opposed the loss of her renovated boathouse, which she said is ‘‘like my child," and not negotiable. Loss of the filled foreshore would also reduce the value of Diligenti’s lots because they would be merely ‘“‘beachfront”’ instead of truly ‘‘waterfront.”" “It doesn't work for me finan- cially,"’ she said. Diligenti had hoped to trade another piece of her waterfront land for that filled foreshore. Mayor Mark Sager was op- timistic that the points of disagreement could be dealt with; he suggested removing the filled land to make the private land behind it into waterfront land again. With questions still left unanswered, the matter was ad- journed again, for another two weeks. But failure to resolve the issue may mean that Diligenti will con- tinue using the marina-zoned property for some sort of com- mercial venture. “It’s not a threat; “it’s the reali- ty of my life,”’ she said. 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