NEWS photo Rilke Waketield THE ROAD turned rocky on Upper Levels highway Monday afternoon. Crumbled chunks of the cliff lining the roadway tumbled down near the West Vancouver Westport overpass and blocked westbound traffic. Rocks block Upper Levels TRAFFIC GROUND to a halt and North Shore com- muters were left fuming Monday afternoon after a rockslide blocked the westbound lane of the Upper Levels Highway just after 3:30 p.m. A highways New road supported From page 7 ‘-on that street that the road link ‘ was planned,’’ Storey said. ‘‘I feel . ‘sorry for them, but it’s not coun- -. cil’s problem if they’ve been misled : by real estate salesmen.”’ * Without the link, Wellington Drive residents will continue living with daily traffic volumes three times the maximum amount the -narrow residential road was '.; designed for. ‘ Derek Andrews, Lynn Valley ‘Community Association president, “sees the link controversy as a hard lesson in planning. “Roads should simply be ‘developed first,’’ he said. ‘It’s un- of rock came down on to the spokesman roadway just west estimated at least 10 truck loads Creek bridge in West Van- couver's Eagle Ridge area. One vehicle was hit by falling debris, but no one was injured. Crews had the westbound fast lane open by 4:20 p.m. The site was completely cleared just be- of Nelson - fore 6 p.m. Business ............. 43 Classified Ads.........4 Doug Collins.......... 9 Comics...............48 Dr. Ruth..... wee. AG Editorial Page. Food.... Bob Hunter... Lifestyles..... Mailbox.......... Sports........... TV Listings....... What's Geing On... WEATHER Wednesday, rain easing to showsrs. Highs near 10°C. Thursday, mainly cloudy. a- Wednesday, February id, WORK — Narth Shore News HOLLYBURN MOUNTAIN SITE OunCH! WEST VANCOUVER District Council] will meet within the next three weeks with the parties behind all five proposals submitted to the municipality to build an 18 to 36-hole golf course on 350 acres of municipal land on Hollyburn Moun- tain. The five proposals to build a golf facility at the 2,300-foor elevation of the mountain just below the Cypress Bowl ski area have been received by the municipality since the — original proposal was made by Ancore In- ternational Ltd.'s president Robert Annable. Concerns have also been raised by West Vancouver residents over the viability of the golf course and its impact on the mountain's en- vironment. But West Vancouver Mayor Don Lanskail said Tuesday support for the proposed project far outweighs any opposition. He said he is aware of only two negative letters in the approximate- ly 45 he has received concerning the proposal. “There seems to be a real spirit of enthusiasm surrounding it," Lanskail said. West Vancouver District planner Steve Nicholls said Monday sum- maries of the proposals have been prepared by his department and will now be forwarded to council. The neat step, he said, is for council to make a decision us to which proposal will be selected to do the environmental impact study that would precede approval of a golf course proposal, West Van- couver will outline what the en- vironmental study will encompass. Nicholls added that any golf course plan would have to be pres- ented to West Vancouver residents in public meetings before a golf course proposal is approved. Said Lanskail: ‘‘We will proceed on this thing with all deliberate speed. This is a very important issue and we are not going to rush into anything.” He emphasized that there would be no sale of the municipal proper- ty. The site will only be leased to the project builder. Responding to concerns raised in the Feb. 1 West Vancouver District Council meeting about the municipality’s current policy of restricting development in the municipality to below the 1,200- foot elevation level, Lanskail said residential development on the site, “has been totally and categorically ruled out.” According to Nicholls, there will also be no overnight accommoda- tion on the site. In the Oct. 2, 1987 News story chronicling Annable'’s original proposal, the West Vancouver businessman said West Vancouver and the entire North Shore was - woefully short of public golf facili- ties. West Vancouver, he said, was one of the few Lower Mainland municipalities without an 18-hole public goif course. The North Shore’s only public golf course is Gleneagles, which has nine holes. Nicholls reported at the municipality’s Feb. | council meeting that golf course proposals have been received from Cypress Bowl Recreations Litd., which operates the Cypress Bowl ski fa- cilities; Hollyburn Ridge Golf Club By TIMOTHY & News Repurtet Holdings, an Ancore International subsidiary: golf course architect James Paterson Izatt, who pro- duced a viability study for a golf course in the area in November 1973; Shema Properties Canada Ltd.; and Westby Communications Corp. and Leighpaul Childcare Services Lid. While agreeing that the propos- ed golf course would expand the recreational horizons of West Vancouver and provide a new rev- enue source for what is currently “unproductive land"’, a letter from the Ambleside and Dundarave Ratepayers Association urges the municipality carefully consider such environmental concerns as limited drainage on the site and what the estimated number of playing days will be on a golf course at the 2,300-foot level. WEST Vancouver Mayor Don Lanskail...“°We witl proceed on this (golf course) with all deliberate speed.”’ The association estimated the worth of the property to be $3.5 million and suggested the rental return for the site should reflect that worth. A letter to West Vancouver Council from North Vancouver's Forston Tylor states that the en- vironmental impact of the golf course development and a subse- quent increase in traffic travelling to and from the site would be “staggering’’. Tylor also questioned the viability of establishing golf greens in a growing-season shortened by colder temperatures and greater snowfall, Annable said Tuesday his com- pany has looked at those and other aspects of the golf course enough to ascertain that the project would be viable. Nicholls said his department’s anaylsis of the site has found no real prospective environmental problems. The proposed use of the Hollyburn Mountain site for a golf course has been under considera- tion by West Vancouver since 1968, but doubts about the finan- cial viability and concern over the environmental impact of courses contained in earlier plans have kept the idea from moving beyond proposals.