residents neighborhood. The study proposes designating 29th Street as a ma- jor arterial road. The street cur- rently has no designation in the city’s Official Community Plan. City engineer Chuck Gale said the designation would match the northern section of the road, which runs through North Van- couver District. While redesignation of the road will have no immediate im- pact on the traffic flow, residents are concerned that it would allow the city to make future changes. “Designating 29th as a major road will leave it open to all those modifications in the future,’’ said resident Claire McGuire. Residents were also concerned about the city’s prediction of a 15 per cent growth in traffic by ihe year 2011, increasing the flow of traffic along 29th from arourd Last December both North Vancouver councils launched a joint transportation study to outline the area’s transportation needs until the year 2011. City and district councils recently approved the recom- mendations contained in the first part of the North Vancouver Transportation Network Study and work will now begin on phase two of the project. “Phase two of the transportation study will examine such issues as the controversial connection of Chesterfield Avenue with an eastbound offramp from the Upper Levels Highway. The ‘‘best network’’ plan, which made up the first part of the transportation study. recommends that a section of 23rd Street from St. Georges Avenue to the Grand Boulevard and 23rd Street to [9th Street be “de-emphasized”? from its cur- rent ‘major route’’ designation to a “collector” status, while 29th Street will keep its ‘‘major arterial’ designation. The model runs used to test the various traffic route improve- ments that were considered be- fore drafting the “best network” plan were based on forecasts of population and employment growth to the year 2011, as iden- tified in both the city and district official community plans. Alternate scenarios were also run in the Inter-River area, both with and without development. “The conclusion reached from this was that the higher level crossing of Lynn Creek is only required if the Inter-River area is developed,”” said district engineer New major road designation raises eyebrows in North Van A MONDAY night policy meeting on North Vancouver City’s proposed transportation network drew almost 50 concerned about its impact on_ their By CORINNE BJORGE Contributing Writer 9,000 to about 10,300 cars per day. Resident Jim Glassford said the street was not designed to handle a lot of traffic. He pointed to its 20.4 per cent grade and the numerous traffic accidents on the street as evi- dence of engineering standards too low for a major arterial road. But city planner Richard White said the city as a whole will be facing large traffic increases unless something is done. White said in a period that has seen city population increase by five per cent, there has been a 15 per cent increase in the number of cars licensed and a 25 per cent increase in the number of vehicles travelling to and from work. Municipalities team up to ease traffic woes NORTH VANCOUVER City and District councils have both thrown their support L:chind a proposed ‘‘best net- work” transportation plan that will see changes to several North Vancouver transportation routes. By SURJ RATTAN News Reporter John Bremner in a report to district council. ‘‘If there is no development in this area, the study did find that an additional crossing of Lynn Creek was re- quired lower down to facilitate east-west movements and to remove them from the congested Second Narrows Bridge head corridor.”’ District council recently decid- ed that there will be no housing development in the Inter-River area, although they are still defining where the Lynn Canyon park boundaries lie. Phase two of the transporta- tion study will examine such issues as the controversial con- nection of Chesterfield Avenue with an eastbound offramp from the Upper Levels Highway. The off-ramp, though com- pleted, has been closed to Ches- terfield access following outcry from the Lonsdale Elementary School Parents’ Association, which has voiced safety concerns over what its members maintain will be increased Chesterfield Avenue traffic flows running ad- jacent to the school from the highway. Phase two of the transporta- tion study will also look at widening the southern portion of the Upper Levels Highway to provide a frontage road linking Lonsdale Avenue with Lynn Valley Road and the Boulevard Crescent. in their reports to councils, both Bremner and North Van- couver City deputy engineer Don Bridgman said the ability to meet the transportation needs to the year 2011 will depend on whether North Vancouver can ‘maintain and manage the network without overloading any one element."’ 3 - Friday, April 27, 1990 - North Shore News WEST VANCOUVER firefighters remove charred insulation from a kitchen at the Vina restaurant in Dundarave Tuesday. The fire department was called in just before 2 p.m. The fire originated in a deep-fat fryer. The fire destroyed kitchen appliances and dam- aged a ceiling. The total vaiue of damages is estimated at approximately $30,000. NEWS photo Terry Peters Union president charges school board ‘waffling’ NORTH VANCOUVER’S school trustees received a bitter tongue lashing Tues- day for voting against going to a referendum on May 5 for the extra $2.2 million the board has estimated it needs for the 1990-°91 school year. By PATRICK RAYNARD Contributing Writer NORTH. VANCOUVER - SCHOOL BOARD Mike Hocevar, president of local 389 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees, charged the North Vancouver School Board with failing to show feadership when it decided to stay with an ‘“Snadequate’’ budget rather than go to the taxpayers for extra funds to cover the operation of schools in 1990-91. Hocevar also warned that both education programs and schools will rapidly deteriorate unless the board takes action to raise more money. “You as trustees have shirked your responsibility,'" Hocevar said. ‘*There's a perception that the board is waffling,’’ he said, refer- ring to the trustees’ decision to overturn their own earlier intention of holding a referendum. At issue is the new Ministry of Education funding policy, which “Your waffling and your misleading information will destroy all that this board has stood for and worked Sor over the years.”” —Mike Hocevar CUPE local 389 president ee ee grants individual school districts an annual total, based on a cost- per-pupil formula, but requires school boards to hold local refer- endums to raise additional money. Hocevar chastised the board for not mounting a positive campaign to raise the extra $2.2 million needed beyond the provincial grant of $85 million. “‘Where are the newspaper ads explaining the position of the board,” Hocevar demanded, ad- ding his opinion that North Van- couver citizens would have gladly agreed to pay more taxes if they had been given a chance to properly understand what the school district needs to educate its children. Hocevar also accused the trust- ees of misleading the public when they ‘“‘pointed their finger at the unions rather than the provincial government”’ by predicting teacher and staff layoffs if funding re- mained inadequate. “Your waffling and your mis- leading information will destroy all that this board has stood for and worked for over the years,”’ Hocevar said. “(We want to see a trustees’ revolt going to Victoria. It has to be a united effort. We don’t want to have an inadequate budget dic- tated by Victoria,’’ Hocevar said to sustained applause from the overflowing public gallery. Board chairman Rev. Roy Dungey defended the trustees’ decision by saying there was ‘‘no way” they would have been able to get $2.2 million out of taxpayers. Trustee Don Bell also defended the board’s decision, saying that a low turnout at a public informa- tion meeting on April 11 indicated how little interest there was in the school district. “Only 42 people turned up at Maplewood Elementary. Half of them were part of the education system, and only eight or nine were actual taxpayers,’’ Bell said, ad- ding that the school’s principal and others had worked hard for several days to publicize the event. Trustee Dorothy Lynas, who had abstained from the board’s referendum vote in protest against the provincial government's policy, told Hocevar she nevertheless believes that trustees and the schools’ many other supporters “could have turned out a fine ‘yes’ vote.”” Legally, trustees have until April 28 to make a final decision on whether to go to referen- dum. But no special meeting of the North Vancouver Schoo! Board was planned before its next, regu- jarly-scheduled meeting on May 8.