ae jek? acca July 31, 1988 News 985-2131 Classified 986-6 NEWS photo Terry Paters ioving experience “ A MOVING truck took on a life of its own after the driver parked it at 14th and Marine Thursday morn- Bing. The truck rolled down the street, struck a parked car and came to rest in the Ambleside Pharmacy 3 storefront. There were no injuries sustained during the moving experience. LOCAL RESIDENTS SLAM PROPOSAL A PROPOSAL to swap three lofs fronting the McCartney Marsh portion of the Maplewood mud flats for residential construction on nearby abandoned waterfront road allowances af Daly Street and Elis Street has Dollarton area residents and environmentalists alarmed. North Vancouver District plann- ing staff maintains the move to negotiate an exchange, following the June 9 posting for sale or ex- change of the two road ends along with an indication that properties would be zoned to permil residen- tial development, would ensure the three lots west of Daly Street re- main undeveloped. Kalico Developments Ltd. and Pacemaker Homes Ltd., the owners of the three lots currently zoned parks, recreation and open space, would pick up two, more easily-developed lots already ear- marked for residential usage. The district has the final cali on zoning, explained development planner Terry Lyster. ‘'As long as they don't do it maliciously, that power is unassailable. (But) pre- sumably the notion was that these guys (the developers) would dem- onstrate that the lots (west of Da- Jy) were buildable.” Without the exchange, the district would be faced with the possibility of having to consider a residential rezoning application on the three lots from Kalico and Pacemaker. But opponents of the plan say there should not be any more housing built on the foreshore strip. They have raised concerns over ecological protection of estuary habitat, the lack of view and access on an advertised scenic route, lots being filled to the water line and over-sized construction. Said Dollarton resident Theota Dancer: ‘1 find it, heart-breaking. The land should stay as uncleared park, When you put up solid houses, the birds go and the fish die.”’ Dancer said she collected 243 Signatures against the proposal in 290 minutes of petitioning at the Dollar Shopping Centre in Deep Cove between July £6 ard 22. Another petition opposing the proposed deal was submitted last month to North Vancouver District Council at a public meeting held June 20 to address the issue. Said Kevin Bell, Vancouver Natural History Society conserva- tion chairman: ‘We don’t want to See that creek (McCartney Creek) By MICHAEL BECKER News Reporter touched, but there shouldn’: be more houses in the area. There should be somewhere for visitors to stop and have a picnic. Those road ends could be a little picnic area with access to the beach.”” But said Kalico president Harold Kalke, whose company bought and sold the 24 residential lots located between Daly and the western boundary of the Burrard Indian Reserve: ‘The mud flats are best protected by private ownership. Owners would be more concerned “7 find it heartbreaking. The land should Stay as uncleared park, When you put up solid houses, the birds go and the fish die.”’ —Dollarton resident Theota Dancer REARS TTR DT ROA SEAR al PS, about what would happen to that foreshore.”’ Kalke said Kalico and Pace- maker bought the three lats west of Daly as parks, recreation and open space-zoned property, but said there was uncertainty at the time over the validity of the zoning designation. ‘*We're paying taxes en the three lots, yet we can’t do anything. What we'd really like to do is build on the three lots we already have."* Council is now wrangling with the question of whether the swap would be an equitable exchange. RES RE PTN Tera BESTE