Anna Marie
D'Angelo

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AGENDAS

North Vancouver City Council,
Monday, March 4 at 7:30 p.m.:
Bylaws: Zoning amendment
bylaw, CCNV parking fot/
Machinery and equipment
depreciation and obsolescence
reserve expenditure bylaw-garbage
trucks. Reports: Garbage truck
acquisition/Lions Gate Hospital
Official Community Plan
amendment proposal/Challenge 91
summer program/District of
North Vancouver commemorative
cein/Lonsdale interchange lanc-
scaping/Creating Our Future:
Steps to a More Liveable
Region/Location of Justice In-
stitute of B.C./Citizen participa-
tion in development of secondary
suites pelice and procedures/
Radio licence fees.

North Vancouver District Council,
Monday, March 4 at 7 p.m.: Pol-
icy and planning committee
meeting: North Shore Health rep-
resentatives to discuss the Healthy
Communities concept/Barker
Property lot A and St. Albans
road allowance/Five-star com-
munity awards program-access
awareness/RCMP contract
negotiations. Notices of motion:
Creek ravines, Ald. P. Turner:
staff should review existing district

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10 - Sunday, March 3, 1991 - North Shore News

REGIONAL hearings into establishing competition for

Canadian long-distance phone calls began fast week in
Vancouver. Unitel Communications and BC Rail Com-
munications/Lightel (BCRL) have applied to the Cana-
dian Radio-television and Telecommunications Com-
misssion (CRTC) to compete for long-distance phone

Should phone service be competitive?

Harvey Salmon
North Vancouver

There appears to be
strong facts in the United
States that show local
phone rates go up. I up

don’t think that’s good.

development permit areas to refine
boundaries in order to protect
creek ravines/Bicycle and pedes-
trian access to Seymour
Demonstration Forest and
Capilano College, Turner: to con-
sider improving the bicycle and
pedestrian routes including a
bridge over Lynn Creek on the
Rice Road right of way.

West Vancouver District Council,
Monday, March 4 at 7:45 p.m.:
Fire prevention bylaw-to repeal
amendment bylaw re: private fire
hydrants/Official Community
Plan and zoning amendment-825,
843, 875 22nd St., Buron Homes,
Seniors’ equity cooperative. Policy
and planning committee:
Amendment of floor area ratio in
multi-family zones to exempt

E.3. Thompson
Surrey
Personally, | like it the
way it is. | feel if com-
petition comes in, it will
the price (of local
phone service.)

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MUNICIPAL AFFAIRS

DEVELOPMENT
PERMITS

North Vancouver City: None.
North Vancouver District: None.
West Vancouver District: Minor
development permit application,
1750 Marine Dr., Simpson's
Hardware/Development variance
permit application, 364 Keith
Road/Development variance per-
mit application, 5854 Eagle
Island.
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PUBLIC
HEARINGS

North Vancouver City: None.

Tracey Ayling

North Vancouver

Yes, I guess so, if com-
petition will benefit the
customer and as long as
{the cost of) local! calls
won't be increased.

Mike Evanow
North Vancouver

ed.
local rates.

get.

North Vancouver District: None.
West Vancouver District: Official
Community Plan amendment
bylaw, zoning bylaw and devel-
opment permit application-ap-
plication by Buron Homes Ltd to
allow a low density, 35-unit,
three-storey seniors’ equity coop-
erative apartment building at 825,
843, 875 22nd St.

managers’ suites/North Shore
parenting teen education and
daycare program/‘‘Envision West
Vancouver,’’ report of the long
range planning task force.

Agenda items are restricted by
space. For a complete listing of
West Vancouver agenda items,
call 922-1211 after hours for re-
corded information. Comprehen-

dollars starting in 1993. Long-distance rates should go
down in a competitive marketplace. But opponents say
Canada will follow the U.S. where rapidly rising local
rates and declining service accompanied competitive
telephone companies. Unitel says it will pay $11.1 billion
over 15 years to ensure local rates won’t rise.

Yes. I don’t believe any-
body should be subsidiz-
Long distance
shouldn’t subsidize low,
I think
should pay for what you

you

Raymond Aitchison
Vancouver
Definitely. It gets away
from the monopoly.
Long-distance rates are
too high. I do a lot of
phone calls overseas.

sive agendas for North Vancouver
City and District are posted at the
respective halls and libraries.

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