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THE VOICE OF NORTH AND WEST VANCOUVER

May 22, 1983

Newsroom 985-2131 Classified 986-6222

LOW-COST
HOUSING OPPOSED

against
greenbelt

rezoning

DISRUPTION OF
Norgate Park
neighborhood by possi-
ble changes in zoning
to provide affordable
housing in North Van-
couver District sparked.
a confrontation Mon-
day between council
and Norgate residents.

And of the more than 10Q
people who showed up al
Monday's pubhc hearing, all
firmly resisted any move by
District to rezone a single-
family area in the 1300- block
West loth Street to multi
family low cost housing

Most residents argued
fervently such action would
devastate the established
character and lifestyle in the
community

Norgate Park Community
Association President Bruce
Delaney told council that
rezoning would be the

“beginning of multi-family

encroachment into a proud,

single family Community ~
He also charged that land
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SUNDAY

Sunny with

infermittent
cloudy penods

MONDAY

Continuing unsetiied

Mews phew fue Oavte
MESSAGE OF REPRESSION tn Chile was brought home to North Vancouver Tuesday when protesters marched
outside the Chilean consolate in the 1100 block Lonsdale. This latest protest at the site which has become a familiar
location for peaceful demonstrations in recent years, was spurred by the military junta’s recent arrest of 1,000 peo

ple in a one-day strike staged by unions against government policies.

Eagle Harbor,
Glenmore
reprieves
‘political’

By BILL BELL

and NIGEL HORSLEY

BOTH SIDES of the
controversial school
closure issue in West
Vancouver are claim-
ing victory over Educa-
tion Minister’ Bill
Vander Zalm's decision
to postpone closure of
two of the five schools
slated to be shut down.
Now it will be up to the
voters and the courts to
decide the final victors.

The attitude of parents
and others directly affected,
making up a crowd of 200
who gathered to hear the
school board announce ment
at Chartwell School
Thursday night, was one of
subdued acceptance

Vander Zalm. a lame
duck minister, approved the
closure of Cedardale,
Pauline Johnson and Cypress
Park but told the board it
would have to watt until
September 1984 _) before
trustees could close Eagle
Harbour and Gleamore
Elementanes He made no
reference to the quesuion of
moving grade sevens into the
high schools

School board Chairman
Norm Alban was delighted
with the announcement, say
ing tC was a “good decision”
However Alban said the
delay in closing the two
schools was a “purely
pohtoal” move on the part
of Vander Zalm

“be was oundcs some
severe opressurc) from s0
meone to keep the sx hools
open ” Alban said

Alban confirmed that the

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