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. January 11, 1984

Mini-Granville Island

NORTH VANCOUVER District Council served
notice Monday night that a public hearing to
discuss the waterfront proposal at the foot of
Pemberton Avenue could be held as early as mid-

February.

Support for C ouncil’s dec
sion to go to bylaw on the
proposal was given by four
aldermen with Mayor
Marilyn Baker and = Ald
Mary Segal opposing

The waterfront proposal
oviginally had = guidelines
drawn up as carly as 1980,

with the project’) going to
tender in 1982 Those
original terms of reference

JOANNE MacDONALD

called for a fisherman's
wharf type facility, while the
current proposal is ‘more
along the lines of a scaled-
down Granville Market
idea,”’ according to Baker

“lam not supporting the

application in its current
form.”’ Baker told Council

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when speaking to the motion
Monday ‘‘l agree it’s an ex-
citing concept but I’m con-
cerned that if it’s made into a
public market we're only in-
viting problems in the future
with the adjacent owners 1
would definitely support a
fisherman's wharf concept "’

A staff report presented to
Council outhned information
deahng with on site parking
arrangements, access to
neighboring properties, con
tractual arrangements and
concerns of the Health
Department. The latter issuc
appeared to trouble several
aldermen, with Ald. Segal
opposing the bylaw motion

gets consideration

until final approval regarding
the food market portion of
the proposal could be obtain-
ed from the Health Officer.

In a letter sent to the
District on January 3, 1984,
Chief Public Health Inspec-
tor, DA’ Cooper said his
main arca of concern was the
wood chip loadifig operation
run by Fibreco

Cooper, citing GVRD Au
Pollution Control, said the
Fibreco facility ‘‘gencrates

more dust than an average
sawmill operation, and that
any additional improvements
will not completely remove
all of the
@atcrial -

particulate

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THURSDAY
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Cooper added the dust par-
ticles may cause cyc irrita-
tions or allergic reactions in
some persons, while the ven-
tilation equipment on food
premises might be adversely
affected due to ‘increased
volumes of ait being drawn
into the premises via doors
and windows "'

Should the = fisherman's
wharf factlty be approved ut
would include such amenitics
as a restaurant, a commercial
fishing moorage, a public
harbor front) viewing arca,
and a commercial develop
ment consisting of fish
markets, ship chandlery, of
tices and coffee shops

NORTH VANCOUVER
RCMP searchers and a track.
ing dog got more than they
bargained for Saturday when

they went searching for a
missing woman.

Two policemen and track
ing dog Dain were forced to
beat a hasty retreat from the
Lynn Canyon areca when their
search for a woman who had
been reported missing was in
terupted by a small skunk.

According to a deatchment
spokesman both police of
ficers andthe dog received a
full dose of the skunk’s
spray

The woman was later
found safe and sound at her
home