February 16, 1992 48 pages

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BILLY BOATTER, a laid-off Versatile Pacific Shipyards Inc. (VPSI) welder,
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argues with Ron

Finance Minister Glen Clark, outside Clark’s Vancouver of-

fice on Thursday. The displaced VPSI workers have demanded the provincial government take ac-
tion to secure severance packages for the laid-off North Vancouver shipyard employees.

Retail, office, 200-bed seniors’ care facilities proposed

NORTH VANCOUVER District
the continuing development

another step in

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Council

municipality’s Seymour area as planning proposals for the
Windridge Centre were sent Monday night to public hear-

ing.

The main four-acre site for the
proposed development is located
on the south side of Mount
Seymour Parkway west of the
proposed Berkicy Road extension.

If the project is approved, the
Maplewood and District Official
Community Plans would be
changed to allow construction of a
200-bed multi-level care facility
proposed by the Kiwanis
organization and a four-storey
building containing a mix of
retail, office and residential
apartment units.

“This is, maybe, somewhat
controversial,’’ acknowledged

By Martin Millerchip
Contributing Writer

Ald. Erme Crist during debate on
the two sites that will make up the
first part of the Windridge Centre.
Other land parcels have yet to be
added.

The smaller one-acre site, adja-
cent to the Berkley Road inter-
change, will house what planning
staff describe as ‘‘a prominent
building to signal the entrance to
Windridge Centre.”’

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DISTRICT COUNCIL

Planning regulations will require
a 30-foot landscaped buffer along
Mount Seymour Parkway and
most of the building’s parking to
be located underground.

The targer four-acre site
mediately to the west will cont
the multi-level care facility.
Though propused as a two-storey
building, it could reach 40 feet in
height with under-building park-
ing and roof-top amenity space.

Ald. Janice Harris argued that
the proposal should first be pres-
ented to the neighborhood at a
public information meeting,
because it is ‘ta high visibility
area’? and would be “the first in-

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cursion into the green space above
Dollarton ‘dighway that is so visi-
ble as you come across the Second
Narrows."’

Ald. Joan Gadsby echoed Har-
ris’ concerns and referred to the
comments of the advisory plan-
ning commission, which initially
considered the proposal on Jan.
15.

The commission’s minutes state:
**Concern was expressed about the
development process and the
Kiwanis facility proceeding prior
to the preparation of a com-
prehensive neighborhood plan.

“Jt was noted that the present
plan appears to be hastily
prepared and that reports on
commercial needs, community fa-
cility needs and engineering issues
are required.”’

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Windridge Centre

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