NEWS photo Mike Waketiaid

THE WEST Vencouver Legion recently donated $7,250 from its 1993 Fop By fund to help North
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Shore seniors like Evergreen House resident Bili Atwood (seated). M

je! Wood (lef) and

_Rosemarie Biock (far right) of the legion preeented cheques to (left to right) Ruth MacKenzie of

Lions Gate Hospice, Carcline Jackson on behalf of the Senlors’ One-Stop Info Line, Bob Smith

on behalf of Evergreen House and Barbara Kroon of North Shore Home Support Services. Funds
raised during the 1993 West Vancouver Poppy Campaign totalled over $30,000.

“. WEST VANCOUVER District

_ Council has filed a writ in B.C.

_ Supreme Court alleging that
-. the “undivided” or “fractional”
“interest condominium conver-

_sion at The Bellevue contra-

venes the Residential Tenancy
» Act. oy

“By Kate Zimmerman
"News" Reporter

“Council’ s lawyer, Paul Wilson,

‘ hopes to convince a judge that.the

' .-non-strata ownership arrangement ;
“that No. 85 Seabright Holdings is |

. Offering prospective purchasers of

~ apartments at 2150 Bellevue vio- ©

“lates the act.

‘If the judge agrees, No. 85
“Seabright will have to reconfigure .

its owners’ agreement.

The Bellevue is offering 40:

. prospective owners a © ‘fractional

-interest”.in the building — which '

_ until October. was a rental complex
called El. Monte — and tying their
‘ownership in with a unit which they
may rent out or live in themselves.

* According to Wilson, this is

“more Of a tenancy agreement than’

‘ an actual ownership and therefore
contravenes the Residential
Tenancy Act.

The act decrees that any tenancy
agreement exceeding 20 years

requires the approval, by bylaw, of

the. Corporation of the District of
West Vancouver.

Much of the controversy sur-
rounding the Bellevue stems from
the fact that the fractional interest
set-up seemed to slow No. 85
Seabright Holdings‘... circumvent
‘municipal bylaws,
upgrading and zoning regulations,

If the Belleyue’s arrangement is

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including,

found by a judge to contravene the

Residential Tenancy Act, Wilson
said, “then the owners’ agreement
creates an illegality and they'll

-have to do something else...”

Joan Smallwocd, the Minister of
Housing, Recreation and Consumer
Services, recently met with West
Vancouver Mayor Mark Sager and
renters of the Bellevue units to dis-
cuss the matter of fractional inter-
ests.

She said undivided interest con-
versions are not, in themselves, ille-
gal

Hewever, earlier this year the
City of Vancouver used a similar
argument to. that of West
Vancouver’s to oppose a plan by
developer Nelson Skalbania to con-
vert apartments to fractional inter-
est, condominiums at Arbutus
Gardens:

Although the matter never got to
court, the conversion plan was
eventually dropped.

The tentative date for West

;

66 According to
Wilson, this is more
of a tenancy
agreement than an

_actual ownership... 99

Vancouver’s petition to be heard by
a judge in chambers is Nov. 25,
Wilson said.

In the meantime, he has drafted
letters to the provincial government
suggesting changes to the Real
Estate Act which would force undi-
vided simple fee interest conver-
sions to follow. the same rules as
strata conversions and co-op con-
versions. .

oe

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