12 - Sunday, March 4, 1990 - North Shore News

AMBLESIDE BUSINESS AREA

3-sterey buildings raise concerns

A PROVISION in’ West) Van-
couver’s community pian that
allows West Vancouver District
Council to consider three-storey
buildings of meritorious design in
the two-storey Ambleside business
area has raised resident concern
over two such applications.

By MAUREEN CURTIS

Contrituting Writer

Several speakers at Monday
night’s council meeting cautioned
council against establishing prece-
dents for the three storeys.

“What's going to happen is that
it (the three storeys) is going to
become the norm,’’ submitted
former Ald. Doreen Blackburn.

The first application (Calmar
Housing) was for a building at
1433 Bellevue Ave. It requires a
change from a commer-
cially-restricted zone to a commer-
cial zone that allows for mixed
commercial and residential use.

The architect proposed the addi-
tion of a partial third storey and

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the relocation of the north-south
lane that currently dissects the
building site.

The second application was fora
development permit to build a
three-storey mixed commercial/
residential structure in the 1400-
block of Marine Drive in place of
the existing Bank of Montreal and
old Ambleside Drugs buildings.

But the Ambleside Business
Association is opposed to allowing
residential uses to encroach on the
business district.

“If our commercial district is to
thrive, it must make maximum use
of its limited capacity for commer-
cial building space,'’ submitted the
association’s president Bill Irwin.

Irwin's group would only ap-
prove a third storey if it offered a
substantial benefit to the com-
munity, such as increased rear-lane
setback with additional public

parking that was provided by the
Walker

Group’s recently com-

chitect Wally Moroz.

at Capilano Vo

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pleted building in the area.

Moving the lane at 1433 Bellevue
would destrey the north-south
view corridor, Irwin complained.

Bert Fleming suggested to coun-
cil that increased) danger of
flooding might also result from the
move.

Chuck Walker of the adjacent
Walker Group building supported
the Bellevue proposal at its present
height, but advised against moving
the lane or introducing a residen-
tial component.

He pointed out that the supply
of office space on the North Shore
has dwindled tc 67,000 sq. ft.

‘Go slow until decisions have
been made about the future of the
whole area,”’ Walker suggested.

A 14th Street resident, W.F.
Gorrie, cautioned council against
betraying a ‘‘planned community"’

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