14 - North Shore News - Sunday. June 4, 2000

Residents want

Marcie Good
Contributing Writer

RESIDENTS of a
neighbourhood that

Oppose one man’s plan
to subdivide his proper-
ty say they want to
maintain the character

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North Shore
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of the neighbourhood.

While the man’s lawyer
charged at last week's council
meeting that the opposition
was based on racial assump-
ons, many
Marlborough Heights say his
accusation was unfair and
untrue.

“How they can come up
with thar is beyond me,” said
Vicky Cowan, who spoke at last
week's council meeting against
the subdivision of properties in
her neighbourhood. “We have
a huge diverse culture in North
Van and we're doing every-
thing we can to protect that.”

Steven Ngan, who owns a
lot at 150 Sandringham, was in
the process of making a
Supreme Court application for
the removal of a restrictive

covenant barring subdivision of

lots in the Marlborough
Heights area. The covenant
was made between a developer
and the purchasers of lots in the

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residents of

1940s, and did not involve the
district.

He wanted to subdivide his
lot and build nvo heritage-srvde
homes. The district's regula-
tions would have allowed him
te do that. His lawyers were
planning to argue there were
“flaws” in the old covenant.

When he notified neigh-
bours he was planning to chal-
lenge the covenant, they
brought the issue to. district
staff. Council referred an
amendment to the subdivision

THE following are brief
summaries of topics on the
agendas of North Shore
municipalities and school
boards:

North Vancouver District
Council: The next council
meeting is Monday, June 12.
North Vancouver City

bvlaw to a public hearing on
June 20, that if passed would
prevent Ngan trom subdividing
regardless of the covenant.

But Cowan said the pattern
of large lot sizes gives
Marlborough Heights a dis-
tinctive look.

Because Ngan is one of only
no owners whose lots are lange
enough under the district
bylaws to subdivide, his lawyers
argue that he is being “singled
out.” Eleanor Gregory, one of
his lawyers, said that ncigh-

borough Heights

bours’ comments about “mon-
ster houses” and Ngan’s lack of
Hes to the community amourt-
ed to racial assumptions.

Cowan points out that
Ngan knew about the covenant
when he boughe the property.
He aied to challenge tc ia
1994, and many residents
raised concerns about subdivi-
sien then. “We mistakenly
thought we were protected by
the covenant, and we mistaken-
ly chought these people had got
the message,” she said.

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Council: The next regular
council meeting is Munday,
June 12.

West Vancouver District
Council: Monday, June 5 at 7
p.m. — special recognition of
West Vancouver centenarians;
fire protection bylaw; animal
control and licence bylaw;

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Felkestone II; delegation
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um projects; civic centre and
area land use plan presenta-
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management plan; Canada
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