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THE LONG-DELAYED $15 million ovezpass project at
Lonsdale Avenue and the Upper Levels Highway has run
headiong into an apartment landlord whw refuses to aban-
don his building and his tenants.

The 10-suite Lonsdale Manor
apartment block at the southwest
corner of Lonsdale and the Upper
Levels Highway owned by George
and Marjory Riste is the last
building that must be removed be-
fore construction on the overpass
project can begin. :

The project was announced in
October 1985. Construction was
scheduled to begin early last year.

But George Riste said Friday he
has refused to vacate the apart-
ment until he gets assurances from
the provincial government that he
will get a building of equal quality
and equal size to house his wife,
himself and ail the tenants current-
ly living in the building.

He said he has also proposed the
building be moved to another site
in the City of North Vancouver.

“A lot of the people living here
are elderly ard on a fixed in-
come,"* Riste said. ‘‘Where are
they going to g0?"’

He said 50 per cent of the suites
in the building are rented to peeple

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basis.

The provincial government, he
said, had offered him another
building farther north on Lonsdale
that was of markedly inferior qual-
ity. He rejecied the offer.

Riste wrote to North Vancouver
City Council on Sept. 29, 1986 re-
questing the city approve moving
the building from its 2429 Lons-
dale site to a site at 2057 St.
Georges Ave.

But Mayor Jack Loucks said the
building ‘‘did not conform to the
zoning requirements in that area,
and we don’t want to move a
building into an area that is totally
different from the buildings
already there. Basically, we feel
this is a highways problem.””

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NEWS photos Neil Lucente

West Van
whoops
it up!

ABOVE, A coy, young
clown waves to the
thousands who turned
out to enjoy the bright
sunny weather and the
annual West Vancouver
Community Day
parade Saturday. Left,
a mass of human can-
dles adds an ap-
propriate air of color-
ful festive celebration
to the birthday bash.