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left, and Steven Komm took an examination for their first aid badges recently, under
the watchful eye of firefighter Bruce McKinney. (lan Smith photo)

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-A North Vancouver
complex of strata suites
would almost certainly have
been destroyed Saturday,
but for the efficiency of
North Van _ District
firefighters in locating and
extinguishing a hidden fire.

A fire department
spokesman commented on
the handling of the fire at

1811 Purcell Way: “They
didn’t know where the fire
was when they got there and
they could easily have lost
the whole building. ‘

A9-Wednesday, May 7, 1980 - North Shore News

Fire damaged six

“It was amazing it was not
a lot worse than it was. It
would have been one hell of
a bad fire except the guys got
in and found the problems
and knocked it down so
quickly. "’

The difficulty was caused
by the fact that the fire,
caused by an electrical fault,
was in the walls between
suites.

Although it started from
beneath the main floor,
firemen were still having
trouble locating the path of

orth Van suites

the blaze by the time the
flames had reached the roof.
_A. woman on the main
floor had heard a crackling
and banging sound from
beneath her suite at about 7
a.m. and assumed it was
someone working in the
crawl space.

Later another resident,
James Kennedy, realized
there was a fire, called the

fire department and alerted
all the other occupants of
the building, making sure
they all got out.

Gleneagles rezoning

propos

municipal staff
recommendation to rezone
portions of the Gleneagles
residential area between
Eagle Harbour and Hor-
seshoe Bay from RS4 to RS3
met with a mixed reception
Monday night at a public
hearing before West
Vancouver council.

The present RS4 zoning
prescribes a minimum lot
size of 9,000 sq. ft. Under
RS3 zoning the minimum
size would be increased to
12,000 sq. ft.

Jerome Smith of Dufferin
Avenue appeared to express
the feelings of a majority of

the dozen speakers and
letter writers whose views
were presented at the
heanng.

“IT feel,” he said, “that you
could possibly be
discriminating against some
property owners in the area
who may wish to subdivide
into two or more lots.”

Numerous of the present
lots are 20,000 sq. ft. or
more in size, making them
subdividable under RS4
zoning.

Also speaking against the
rezoning was Gleneagles
resident Don McAlister, a
former West Van alderman.

I criticized

However, C.H.W. Jones
of Hycroft Road supported
the increased minimum lot
size. The trend towards
building larger homes on
smaller lots, he said, should
be discouraged.

Backing for the proposal
also came from the directors
of the Gleneagles
Ratepayers Association.

Association president Roy
Bartholomew told the
hearnng that directors had

conducted an “informal”
survey of 30. affected
residents which indicated

agreement with the

proposed downzoning to
RS3.

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