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NEWS photo Neil Lucente

‘BRILLIANT SUNSHINE on Sunday brought suntanners as well as skiers to local mountains to enjoy the fresh snow. Here, Anita Salomaa, Noel
Marsan, Derrick Rockhill and Kevin Sass soak up the rays at Cypress Bowl.

Council to study feasibility

NORTH VANCOUVER District Council has put off a
decision to rezone land for a controversial residential high

rise on Dollarton Highway to investigate the possibility of

acquiring the site for park land.

Council unanimously supported
a motion Monday to examine the
feasibility and suitability of ob-
taining all foreshore lands between
Cates Park and the Burrard Indian
Reserve for park purposes.

The matter will return to council
for further consideration April 28.

Lou Bonar, a member of the
Save Our Shores Citizen's Group

By EVELY™ JACOR
Contrifuting Writer

opposed to tie Ramrod Invest-
mients Led. 136-unit -clopment,
said he is. happy council's
decision.

Council's decision to consider
acquiring the Maisuimoto Shipyard

site for park land reflects a grow-
ing concern among Deep Cove res-
idents that the potential rezoning
of the land from light industrial to
high density residential will remove
public access to the waterfront,
which is atready in short supply.

Residents say any residential
development on Ure site will seta
precedent and will make it more
difficult for council to deny other
property owners the right to equal
treatment in Che rezoning of their
lands,

Ramrod developers meanwhile
insist. they only want to attract

people to the North Shore.

The owner of Matsumoto Ship-
yards agreed to sell the property to
Ramrod one year ago after the
Department of Fisheries restricted
new boat building, making it
unfeasible to continue operations.

The development itself originally
called for one three-storey apart-
ment building, and twa apartments
of eight and 10 storeys each lor a
total of 154 residential units, but
the developer fas since scaled
down his plans and reduced the
number of suites to 129.

Residents and members ef the

of park on shipyard land

Deep Cove, Dollarton, Indian
River Community Association say,
however, the structure will create
“massive’’ traffic and parking
problems, and destroy existing
views,

Alfison Parker of 4616
Wickenden Rd. said the Dollarton
Highway area is already crowded
and that a develapment would only
worsen the problem.

“HP we wanted to live with high
rises we would have moved to
downtown Vancouver,”’ said) an
emotional Parker.