8 - Friday, October 21, 1988 - North Shore News Report criticizes lack of THE NORTH Shore may not be shouldering its ‘‘fair share of the region’s social housing responsibilities,’’ according to a newly-drafted housing policy. By MARTIN MILLERCHIP Contributing Writer Although North Vancouver has the highest percentage of social housing on the North Shore, it lags behind New Westminster which has a comparable population, says the report. Mayor Jack Loucks said the social housing numbers may be misleading because they don’t take into account the ratio of popula- tion to area. “New Westminster is a much larger municipality in terms of land area,’’ said Loucks. But a complete lack of vacancies in North Vancouver social housing projects reflects a need for a review of current city policies, says VD Council hears ‘copter noise report NORTH VANCOUVER District Council recently took another step to try and control the problem of noise created by helicopter flights in the Grouse Mountain area. ‘ By CORINNE BJORGE Contributing Writer Following the presentation of two reports by the North Shore Health Department, Ald. Craig Clark proposed that a committee of municipal staff, a council member and Health Department officials be struck to sit down with Grouse “Mountain Resorts Ltd. ‘tand work together to resolve this problem.”’ Council had asked the Health Department to report on the extent to which helicopters operated in violation of the district’s new Noise Regulation Bylaw. The reports were based on two sets of noise tests conducted at the beginning and end of August of this year. Data from the first test showed that helicopter noise from tours operated by Grouse Mountain Resorts was exceeding the daytime bylaw limit of 55 decibels, and the report concluded that “residents of the Grousewoods/Highland area have a legitimate concern regar- ding helicopter noise.”’ Grouse Mountain Resorts were advised of the test results and made adjustments to the flight path of their helicopter tours by staying east and north of the skyride’s upper terminal. A second test confirmed that the new routing reduced noise levels in the same area by 6 to 15 decibels. Of 13 helicopter flights recorded, only one exceeded 55 decibels for a duration of 63 seconds. The report concluded that “although the new levels are within the bylaw’s permissabic limit, it may continue to be a nuisance to the residents of the Grousewood/Highland area." Mayor Marilyn Baker said the district needed to live with Grouse Mountain as a resort and major tourist attraction, but she added, “You have to recognize as a cor- porate neighbor that you cannot be impinging and carrying on your business to the detriment of the residential property around you. “T think we'll get co-operation,” she concluded. NORTH Vancouver City Ald. Bill Bell ...report ai ‘‘fairly bold move.”" the report. The practice of city council in the past has been to deal with social housing development ‘‘on a project by project basis,"’ said city social planner Jill Davidson. With the new policy we're ‘‘try- ing to flesh out a target (number of housing units) for the city,” said Davidson, Shore social housing Ald. Bill Bell called the report a “fairly bold move’' but said it “doesn’t deal enough with the possible ‘ghettoization’ of social housing.’’ To this end, the report suggests a diversity of housing be developed in the Lower Lonsdale area. Ald. 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