2- Wednesday, May 11, 1988 - North Shore News

NY DIS TRICT COUNCIL

Super mailboxes slammed

NORTH VANCOUVER District. Council voted. Monday. to
seck support from other, municipalitics to urge Canada Post
not to proceed wiih its controversial super mailbox scheme.

“We expressed our strong. ob-
jections to this in: 1986 but it was
forced down our throats. by
Canada -Post,"’. said Ald. Joan
Gadsby.: ‘We're reiterating our
position on this (by secking sup-
port from other municipalities)."’

Council said it will make a re-
quest to the Union of British Col-

umbia’ Municipalities and enlist:
support frori the Federation of °

Canadian Municipalities to oppose
the.“ implementation of super
mailboxes in new neighborhoods.
_o The motion was prompted by a
report from M.S. Hoskin, district
... director of Financial Services; on
‘the recent Ontario government rul-
ing allowing a five per cent reduc-

tion in municipal taxes to people
living with super mailboxes in
front of their homes.

Hoskin found that any assess-
ment reduction would not. lower
tax levies in total because the “lost
taxes** would be raised by taxing
unaffected residents... a

Gadsby complained that . the
federal government, is “passing the
buck to another / level of , gov-
ernment.”

“The feds are ” supposed to be
providing a more cfficient service.

What they're really asking is for

taxpaycrs to pay tor a burden
created by Canada Post.’’

There are presently 60 super
mailboxes in North Vancouver
District.

Hoskin said that if more than
one home is affected by a mailbox,
the total municipal tax impact
would be much greater. And he
said that the total tax impact will
more than double when school and

- other levies are taken into account.

That would) mean:an even
greater burden an unaffected tax-
paycrs, said Gadsby.

In. the meantime, Gadsby said
she -has received many calls from
people “‘rcally panicking about the
super mailboxes.”

Many complaints have been
about a lack of privacy and traffic
congestion at the mailbox sites,
vandalism and garbage thrown on
affected propertics.

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