DESPITE NEIGHBORS’ objections, a 14-storey
high-rise will be built at 2120 Argyle Avenue in

West Vancouver.

After lengthy debate and
agonized deliberation, West
Vancouver District Council
approved the tower design
by K.A. Ray Developments
Lid. at its regular meeting
Monday night.

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cent, whereas in the Navvy
Jack only seven suites would
lose their westerly views on-
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| Tower to rise in

stated that the tower was
two and one half feet wider
than bylaws permitted. He
also pointed out that the
billboard advertising the
tower on site was mislead-
ing. The lack of directional
arrows on the billboard

made the tower appear, to
the uneducated eye, as being
further east on the site than

save many Crescent views,
ALTERED BYLAWS

Humphreys explained that
bylaws can be altered if it
benefits the community. He
explained again that council
had the responsibility to
consider the proposal even
though he had attempted

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area.
Council

tower because the developers

made a number of revisions

approved = the

to the project, including
sereening the driveway en-
trance, altering the rear deck
elevation to open views for
adjacent owners, providing
additional screening of the
rear wall and providing nine

The applicant also agreed
to place the building approx-
imatiely 25 feet from the
rear property line (20 feet to
the balcony edge) where only
five feet is required by zon-
ing regulations. This conces-

sion, made to reduce the
significant impact on Navvy

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was the case, he said, adding
that an easterly site would

“Another resident of the
Crescent, Walter Watt,

Local residents in three
neighboring apartment
blocks fought vigorously
over the past six months to
alter the proposed tower
| plan.

ac The tower blocks views
| re : and decreases the amount of

oO sunlight in the area,
residents said. Parking and
the aesthetic quality of the
building was also under
debate.

previously to down-zone the — surface parking stalis.

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Residents of three adjoin-
ing apartments, the Navvy
Jack West, the Crescent and
the Bellevue Towers, were
aware that the building
would be built but all three
were at odds as to where the
proposed tower should be
located on the site. A slight
ene adjustment in location
Gat would mean gaining degrees
° : of view to one apartment
block while losing views to
another.

a “You can’t satisfy all of
pe, .the people all of the time,”

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the proposed tower would
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