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West Van to crack down on

WEST VANCOUVER
District Council has moved
to toughen the district’s
regulations prohibiting peo-
ple from parking in spaces
designated for disabled per-
sons.

By Maureen Curtis
Contributing Writer

If the bylaw is passed, anyone
who is nat disabled or is not
transporting a disabled person
(while prominently displaying a
Disabled Persons parking card)
will be prohibited from parking or
Stopping in zones designated for
the disabled.

Signs indicating parking for the
disabled generally have a
wheelchair symbol! clearly marked.

Council is also planning to
create five additional parking
spots for the disabled in the
Ambleside Business District.

Debate recently arose over the
placement of the parking spois for
the disabled around West Van-
couver municipal hall.

The designated spots were mov-

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WEST VANCOUVER
DISTRICT COUNCIL

ed from the west side of the hall
on 17th Street to the north side on
Fulton Avenue last year.

Community Services Advisory
Commission member Patty Clark
said that it would be easier and
safer to get into a wheelchair on
Fulton, than on 17th, which is on
a heavily travelled hill,

Clark, who has to get her
wheelchair out of her trunk, had
difficulty in attending commission
meetings because she had to park
on 17th.

The designated parking spots
were moved after a sub-committee
of the commission met with
municipal officials.

Even though there have been
complaints from another
wheelchair user, David Blair, the
parking spots will stay on Fulton
for the time being.

The commission considered but
did not agree with Blair’s com-
plaint that the new parking spots
on Fulton were farther away and
poorly lit.

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But the let-down to the sidewalk
at Fulton and 17th will be im-
proved.

“Pr looking forward to the
day when we can have access to
the building for the disabled from
the lower parking lot,’ said Ald.
Diana Hutchinson.

But the installation of a lift
from the parking lot would be ex-
pensive, while there are concerns
about security if the basement
door were to be left unlocked
after hours to provide access to
those in wheelchairs attending
council and other meetings.

Ald. Andre Danyliu issued a plea
to the public to stop parking or
even stopping in the spots desig-
nated for the disabled in West
Vancouver.

“The disabled and those who
drive them are often older and
frail and it’s not fair that they
should drive around and around
the block waiting for you to get
out of their spots. Leave those
few spots for those that really
need them,”’ said Danyliu.

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