IN-LAW SUITES are in and second kitchens are out in single-family homes other than those containing certified in-law suites in the District of North Vancouver. Biting into the illegal suite issue one careful nibble at a time, coun- ci] authorized district staff at a special Wednesday meeting to Prepare amendments to the zoning bylaw permitting Jegal in-law suites for the first time in the district. Second kitcheas will be limited to in-law suites not exceeding the lesser of 700 sq. ft. or 40 per cent of the floor area of a single-family home. One in-law suite pe single-fami- ly home will be legalized by permit with bonding, a one-time inspec- tion and an affidavit required. Staff was also authorized to levy water and sewage charges for in- law suites and ‘‘for any ottier resi- dential units’? once the necessary zoning bylaw changes to permit NORTH VANCOUVER District mayor Marilyn Baker...‘“We have to move on this issue bite-size pieces ata time.”’ such units are adopted by council. Combined water user and sewage charge rates for a single- family home using 1987 unmetered water supply rates total $145.04. An additional suite would add $122.38 for a new total of $267.42, The charges will be prorated in 1987. An amendment to section 1104 of the zoning bylaw inereases the maximum penalty for an offence under the bylaw from a current $500 fine to $2,000. Weather: Sunday and Monday, sunny, Tuesday, masily cloudy with a chance of isolated showers. Highs near 18°C. By MICHAEL BECKER News Reporter Registration costs to bring the existing estimated 2,000 illegal suites into line under the new regu- lations total an estimated $1.5 mil- lion or $750 per inspection fee. “The figures may be refined,”’ said Mayor Marilyn Baker. Council also received a timetable spelling out the sequence of events for implementation of both legaliz- ing in-law suites and registering and phasing out existing illegal suites over a five-year period. The policy implementation timetable calls for details of in- spection procedures, policies and costs of bylaws under considera- tion to come before council May 25; a public hearing on in-law suites for June 15; details of illegal suite levies considered at policy and planning meeting June 15; procedures and necessary staffing requirements to be established June 16 through July 31; registra- tion of illegal suites and in-law suites Aug. 1, 1987 to Feb. 29, 1988; completed phase-out of iJ- legal suites by June 30, 1992. “We have to move on this issue bite-size pieces a. a time. If we suddenly came up with a great unveiling, there’s ao way we would have all of the answers,’’ said Baker. “We have to put the regulations into perspective. Right now you can’t legally have a family suite in the district, We have the ongoing flagrant building of homes pur- posely built for legal suites. We were like cunuchs as far as legally being able to deal with them." The meeting was disrupted at one point with a woman screaming from the gallery. ‘It’s a police state — you're all a bunch of Hitlers." Aldermen Craig Clark and Mary Segal voiced misgivings regarding approving the new bylaw im- plementations. Said Segal "My concern is that) this is unen- foreeable, Pil go along with this because itis the best we can do for the moment.” INDEX Business Classified Ads. Doug Collins .. Comics .. Editorial Page... Fashion........ Bob Hunter... Lifestyles . Mailbox. .... Sports....... TV Listings... 3 - Sunday, May 10, 1987 - North Shore News NEWS photo Nell Lucente Jaws of life FIREFIGHTERS from the Lions Bay Volunteer Fire Department practise with the ‘jaws of life’, equipment that extricates victims trapped in automobiles. The department held a Safety Day last week to raise money to buy the equipment. about 40 families from the community turned out, and together they raised more than $1,000. See story page 10. N. Shore unemployment projects worth $150,000 THREE NORTH Chamber of Commerce to businesses. The North Shore Assogiation for the Physically Shore Unemployment migration projects werth a tonal of $150,000 were an- nounced Thursday by Capilana MP Mary Colitis. Under the first project. the North Shore Enterprise and Development Centre will ger $26,188 to provide three jobs for a total of £7 weeks. The people hired will work in conjunction with the North Vancouver help and fm- develop small Handicapped will receive S41.301 to provide three jobs, which will help develop the association's library, develop adult day care and study wheelchair accessibil- ity, for a total of 90 weeks. Under the third project, the North Shore informa- tion and Volunteer Centre will receive $82,602 to provide six jobs for a total of 180 weeks. The project will help such organ “ations as the North Shore Women’s Centre, the Emily Murphy $2.6m_SHIPLOADER Versatile contract put on hold A PLAN to purchase a $2.6 mil- fion shiploader from North Van- couver’s Versatile Pacifie Ship- yards Inc. was put on hold recently by the Port of Oregon. Versatile was the low bidder on the project to build the bulk outloader, which would have an- nual loading capacity of 3.5 mil- lion tonnes of cxport soda ash, bentonite clay and ash. A Port of Oregon spokesman has said the total cost of the pro- ject, now estimated at $7.! million House and the Burnaby Volunteer Centre. US, was higher than original estimates and that expected returns were not deemed to have justified the investment. Versatile shipped its first shiploader to a coal terminal in southern Chile earlier this year.