12 ~ Friday, December 6, 1997 — North Shore News

West Van council rejects residents’
request to fill over sewer easement

’ A COUPLE living on West Vancouver’s Woodgreen Drive
failed recently to get West Vancouver District Council ap-
proval to place a retaining wall and fill over the sewer
right-of-way that runs through part of their property and
restricts (he use of their back yard. :

Director of operations Barry
Lambert advised against the pro-
posal because he said it would
make it more difficult and more
costly to get access to the sewer in
the future, which is why the
municipality retains such rights-
of-way.

Although the owners would
have been willing to pay for the

By Maureen Curtis

Contributing Writer

precedent for the other easements
in the municipality.

“When the owners bought the
property, they took it as it is,’’
added Ald. Ron Wood.

Ald. Diana Hutchinson pointed

WEST VANCOUVER
DISTRICT COUNCIL

out that allowing the fill might in-

crease the value of the property by
some $50,000.

“I can’t see why we should do .

that. They have a very nice large
home. People choose to buy these
houses which are built to the max-
imum with not very large back
yards,"” she said.

Ald. Rod Day said the request
was not unreasonable, but the
vote went against the application.

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exira costs, Lambert speculated
that there could easily be prob-
lems with future owners of the
property, which is currently for
sale.
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