3 - Sunday, July NEWS photo Tom Burley BUSINESS HAS bottomed out for West Vancouver merchants located between 15th and 18th streets. The municipality has closed off the strip to traffic and has ripped up streets, curbs and sidewalks to make way for new streets, curbs and sidewalks. Store owners are fuming over the closure and subsequent loss of business. The work began July 4 and will continue through July. Axel’s Cycle owner Saed Beshr said he’s spent most of his week praying his business will survive the month. ba) re AN INTERNAL North Vancouver District planning report comes down hard on the development of a $10-million private school and residential complex for Japanese students on a 12-acre portion of Vancouver Port Corporation-owned land near the Maplewood mud flats estuary. By MICHAEL BECKER News Reporter Site work is already underway on the project with an esitmated 360 students from Japan enrolling for phase one of the Canadian In- ternational College Inc. (CICI) Maplewood campus by April 1, 1989, tennis a large gymnasium and courts.”’ CICL is a joint venture of Nelson From page D. International School Inc. and Jap- anese business interests. In April, the company opened a Japanese school in Nelson. The Maplewood facility is expected to house a total of 1,200 students by the time the project is completed. 1,200: Japanese nationals. portant »a8'a conduit, “feeding Highway. disrupt. the ground. water. flow,’ the’ marsh destroyed.” But the district report raised a number of ‘‘concerns’’ with the development including: e*Non-compliance with official community plan use designations manager of real estate: which in part do not consider new ‘Anything that. is. sensitive: will: “be. dealt: with. -Hf iit}: is. demen- residential uses for low-lying sites in the vicinity of chemical plants (Erco Industries and Canadian Occidental are located southwest of the site). eUnsuitability of the site’s soil stability, drainage and the en- vironmental sensitivity of sur- rounding lands. *The limited on-site provision of support and recreational services for students. But said John Christianson, vice-chairman of CICI's manage- ment committee, ‘‘We're building strated: that: it needs: to be replac- ed, you. work that. out with: ‘the’ government: agencies. ' ‘There's a! fot of five. and fake in “these things.” aoe ated : within’ a °200-foot getbac! fronting! “We had to allow for ‘hat (the setback) because most of it (the swamp) is on the future highway site if Dollarton” Highway is. realigned."* The VPC Maplewood The siteis fronted by-a swamp. 7 and. Bell says: the property. is-im-: fresh ground water: to the marsh. and mud fists south of Dollarton: Said Bell: “If they. do’ system.’ Swit be Bat said: Dick” Wright, - VPC: Wright:: ‘said the swamp is situ-: _ =! Dollarton’. Highway. ‘and| A 1978 chemical hazard study noted that although the probability of a chlorine spill was low, the risk has not been altogether eliminated. The study reported prevailing at- mospheric conditions in Burrard Inlet inhibit the rapid dispersion of an accidental release of chlorine. ‘south. The YPC. has: “couleacted: compile:'a land development study investigating development options for’ the. remaining ap- i proximately. 88.-acres of undeveloped land. ‘Wright Said: S Vancouver-based. enginecring’: _ ‘consultants ‘Hamilton Associates. ‘the study began Jn early June and . its due for coraptetion by mid-fall. ‘The southern portion is framed ‘py: strips, of marsh “vestigat all. potential “urban: uses “agricuitural) of the laud. ‘gaid- Bell: “The | VPC ‘(alls designations’. excluding, ‘The: ee ~Stre mandate. is: to .in-: years ‘should show its “willingness | to. recompense ‘past environmen- tal sins.: insted of developing. an: area” in’ between! conservation | veones, the.” ered: should’. be “set: “made any. bones about it that the ‘mud flats at Daly Street and ERs -yardg.2) But said Christianson: ‘‘We’re located above the 100-foot sea fevel. We had an indication from the district that the 100-foot level was the critical number. In the event of a chlorine spill, chlorine is heavier than air. We feel we’re quite safe.” property is going’ to be developed for urban use:’But when you do something: Hké that, you. respect - all of these sensitive areas.” A. district, plan to rezone road allowances,. to.allow for residen- tial’ development” fronting: the B: that the birds stay. I just get sick seeing what they've done. with the development. FPve. never. seen birds living’: in people’ 's back 10, 1988 - North Shore News Business Classified Ads. Doug Collins Tomics............... Editorial Page.......... 6 Fashion ..... Bob Hunter............ 4 Lifestyles..............35 Mailbox ......... seen ee dD TV listings............32, Travel ................ 91 What's Going On........38 Sunday and Monday, mostly sunny. Highs near 26°C. Tuesday, mostly cloudy with Showers, Second Class Registration Number 3885 A! 1979 district-commissioned geotechnical study, by R.A. Spence Engineering Inc., noted problems with potential bank failure in the area in the event of an earthquake. The report recom- mended, ‘‘schools, hospitals, and other critical development should nat be located in the southern por- tion of Maplewood where recent loose soil' deposits are considered to exist which could fail under strong earthquake forces.”’ But said Christianson: ‘We're building on glacial till. Where there is some fill, it is granular fill made up of rock of various sizes. We’re building wood structures with shear walls to take any twisting action and we’re building on piles where there is not glacial itl.” : A 1980 district-commissioned report by TERA Environmental Consultants noted the site provides a continuous wet land and drainage system from the upland areas to the southern swamp. The report said retention of natural drainage to the south swamp and foreshore would allow urban development to take place in adja- cent areas. But Christianson said the south swamp feeding water to the central Maplewood estuary and the north swamp fronting Dollarton High- way are not natural features. Both, he said, were created when railway and highway construction took place in the area, ‘‘The culverts were built too high and didn’t allow drainage to proceed. The amount of run-off from the site wil] be increased slightly because of the pavement we're putting in.”’