A BYLAW keeping owners from parking their

cars in front yard.driveways will get a second look ‘| af

by North Vancouver City council.

The decision was made
after residents from the 2500
and 2600 block Western
Avenue area petitioned
council on behalf of two
women who cannot use their
driveways because of bylaw
restrictions.

Neighbors of
Federowski and Grace
Nolan asked council to
relieve the two women of the
burden of having to build
driveways in their backyard,
now that sidewalk im-
provements have barricaded
them from using front yard
driveways they have used for
years.

Bylaw No. 1967 states in
part that off-street parking
must be sited at the rear of a
house, unless there is a
garage at the front of the
house.

In spite of the bylaw the
two women already had
driveways with no garages.

But when a sidewalk was
built on Western Avenue
this summer no allowance
was made for a curb drop for
the driveways, in keeping
with the bylaw.

Lorna

A neighbor living on the
same street was allowed a
driveway with no garage.
But that was only because
her property conforms to
another section of the bylaw
which allows a driveway
when there is a minimum
clearance of eight feet
between the house and the
edge of its lot.

UNDESIRABLE

City Engineer Alan
Phillips warned council that
if the bylaw was changed
some undesirable situations
could result.

The idea of the bylaw is to
keep the residential sections
of the City attractive, he had
earlier told the News.

In a separate but related
issue Federowski’s and
Nolan's neighbors asked

council not to allow a lane to.

be built in the 2500-2600
block between Western and
Chesterfield Avenues.

Houses on the upper half
of the block, designated
2600 Chesterfield and 2600
Western, are not separated
by a lane.

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And they don't want to be,
spokesman Doug Vincent
told council, presenting
aldermen with a list of names
he said represented 75 per
cent of the homeowners who
would be affected if a lane
were built.

City staff have wanted to
build a lane there after one
resident of the block
complained of flooding in
her backyard, Phillips told
council.

The city has
dedications of 10 ft. from
some of the homes in the
block, and not others.

But unless everybody
agrees the lane can't be
built, he said.

Vincent said that wasn't
the impression he received
when he phoned City Hall to
discover the law on the
matter.

Staff had left him with the
impression the City could
expropriate the land and
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he said.

The City does have that
authority under law, Phillips
told council, but if it does
that it must pay full market
value for the land.

Rather, City policy is that
expropriation’ is not un-
dertaken and the City asks
that 10 ft. sections of land be
“dedicated” to the City for a
nominal fee if residents want
a lane, he said.

“If some residents of a
block dedicate land to the
City for a lane and others do
not does the City eventually
return the dedicated land to
its former owners?” asked

‘Alderman Stella Jo Dean.

“No,” replied Phillips,
“the City keeps it expecting
that in the fullness of time
the lane will go through.”

Council voted to receive
the petition and inform
residents that the City will
not proceed with full
opening of the lane.

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