NOT EVEN BUILT YET, but the future headquarters of ICBC at ‘the. workers honored the picket line w which appeared Tuesday, stopping wo
already: being -picketed :as insurance corporation . on the new building (Ian Smith » photo).

members step Up. their action after several weeks on strike: Construction

Vancouver council Monday night. Soe oo

‘But plans are already
underway to re-introduce
the zoning change once 4
new floor area ratio bylaw is
drafted -— despite public
opposition.

Council was given an.

unanimous message by the
70 or go residents’‘who at-

tended the hour-and-a-half
public meeting.

West Vancouver
homeowners do not want the
size of their homes restricted
to a percentage of lot size.

Speakers expressed
concerns that the bylaw
would decrease the value of
their homes and property,
would make refinancing

difficult and prohibit ex-.

pansion to accomodate in-
law suites.

A floor area ratio would
“down-zone” single family
residential lots at a_ time
when considerable attention
and concern is being ex-
pressed about insufficient

housing in _greater Van-
couver, said entrepeneur
Cam Fraser. ~

“Is the beauty of West
Vancouver of | sufficient.
value. to us to. aggravate
rather than alleviate this
problem,”’ asked the
Bellevue Avenue resident.

Calls to “increase the
density (of single-family
residential) rather than going
the opposite way,”. shocked
mostalderman. _

‘While council and Mayor
Derrick Humphreys “are
doing us a favor by
protecting the aesthetics of
West Van" times and
economics have changed.
“He (the mayor) is painting
an ideal — but I, for one,
think the cost is too great.”
~ And so did the other nine
speakers.

Although amendments to
the bylaw included raising
the allowable site percentage

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