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1988 - North Shore News

Upper Levels developers want change of plans

ANCORE INTERNATIONAL,
the company that got permission
last year to build three six-storey
apartment buildings between
Cypress Row! Road and the Upper
Levels Highway, wants to change
the development to include four
apartment buildings and 16 duplex
townhouses ov the site.

Density and site coverage would
not change, planning director
Steve Nicholls explained to West
Vancouver, District Council last
week. But the six-storey apartment
buildings would be reduced in
bulk, with 33 of the project's 77
units being spread among. the
duplexes.

The development would thus fit.
more closely into the stcep topog-
raphy, project architect Larry
Laidlaw told the News. Difficulties
in accessing the site also helped
determine the changes in design.

“This doesn’t seem consistent
with their original - objectives,"’
commented West Vancouver resi-
dent Roy Bartholemew, who spoke
_ at the three public: hearings held
last year for the original proposal.

“They're flying in the face of
their own proposal. Theif.idea was
to have three towers and leave the

. Fest in. wide open space,"'. . Bar.
" ‘tholemew added. » = 4 .

. Some of the public hearings held

‘were attended * by . over ‘300
residents, many of whom were:
concerned ‘about the introduction
of high rise development above the
Upper Levels Highway. |

*.Ancore International: got. coun-
cil’s permission for the higher den-
sity: development ‘after. purchasing
extra land above the highway: and
using transfer “of density. Their

“argument was that ‘a concentrated :

development. would. leave ~ more :
land undeveloped, ‘thus having less

of’an impact on the fragile topog-
raphy: which’ they felt. would | be
. .denuded by a.,spread out single

: family residential area: ,
3Nowthat they've broken. ‘all.
° the rules, they want to change their
proposal, ” ‘remarked ‘Bar-
tholemew...” 1b

-Not' being the original architect;
a Laidtaw could not say: whether the,

‘s New*proposal would have less’im-

. pact. on the environment. or: be.'as

ws inexpensive, to ‘service. as: the pro- "|
“posal : that has already been ap :

proved by. council.

the new proposal to. the Advisory ©
Design: Panel. and |. the Advisory :
Planning Commission. “s
“1 don’t’see a role in this for the.
isory |. Plannin 1 Commission...
They’ve done: their “job,"’ argued °.

change was’ in combining a
townhouse format with: an apart-
ment format.

“Council may want to consider

“The catra tower will cause
some change in’ configuration,’
said Ald. Alex Brokenshire.

Nicholls felt, that -the major

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Nicholls added.

Bob Annable of Ancore Interna-
tional declined to comment on the

proposed alterations to the project
until the’ Advisory Design Panel
and Advisory Planning Commis-
sion have see the plans.

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