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So while Reid says more:
senior citizens’ housing: is~
, needed, she says she will not
-. know until studies are.done.
is for

whether | the - need :
straight rental accomodation
or. for:
facilities.

- ‘She’ says ‘the. waiting lists

for <senior citizens’
comodations have

ace
grown

shorter’ ‘than they were two
or three years ago but added
_ that this might be because of

the SAFER: .program’ and
“more. people are getting long
term. care in . their: own

_ But Reid is sure that as the
general population gets
older there will be more
need for senior citizens’
housing.

Any new senior. citizens
‘developments, by their. very
naturé, will probably be
confined to the ‘apartment
zone’. of West Van in the
Ambleside -Marine Drive
area, where ‘the: main
seniors’ housing projects are
already located. ...

‘GERIATRIC GHETTOS'
Reid says she | does not
think the perpetuation of

Oe ‘geriatric
area, is necessarily a bad -Vancouver

intermediate care.

for.

‘ghettos’: = in.

thing.

She. says a mix -between
senior citizéns housing and
other types of housing, as
now-exists:in. the Ambleside
area, is s good for the seniors.

ge
As: long as ‘this sort. of mix
continues ‘to exist, Reid:says,
‘she sees no harm in having
more seniors, housing
developments in the area.”

YOUNG PEOPLE

‘The. other main concern
Reid, as. the. social
planner, is in providing

housing for young people

who want to remain in West_
‘Van when they grow up.

For them, the main
problem is the high housing

_ prices in West Van.

“The hardest hit are the
young people who wish to
start a family in the com-
munity in which they are
raised. Currently there are
few options for this group,”
the proposed community
plan says.

-

The vacancy rate in rental
accomodation in West Van
is running at about the .9 per
cent level which exists

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District. Reid says.
Rental housing: is Jargely

confined to~ the aparment

zone and Horseshoe Bay..

The » municipality. is
committed: to providing.
rental accomodation “SO

“there is a mix, but .council

currently has no policy of |
preventing the conversion of
rental “housing - to strata |

ownership, and each case-is _

examined individually.

While future development
is Sundera ey in eave lere ane

land ‘is so ate that
developers have to charge

their investment. ~ .

“It is unlikely any “low
income housing will appear
on the scene,” Nicholls said.

So the majority of new.

housing developments in
West Van will be confined to
single family dwellings and
the planners do not deny that

most of these will be ex-

pensive,

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“really: expensive,
said.

Because of the. geography
of the West Van,” thé

~ Micing | of thé lots" is much ©

more- expensive than: in. the
“Fest of the Lower Mainland.

-Reid says it is a myth’ that
ae young | people. ‘are
currently moving. to. West

- Vancouver and” ‘both Reid:

and ©. the community” plan

point out that young: couples 7
‘Tare - buying ‘and Fenovating. ;
ins the: Am-.

‘older. ‘houses -
bleside

and Dundarave
areas... ,

people. are. poing to be able
to’ afford ‘the néw housing
being planned for West
Vancouver im. the next
decade or two, 7 .
This new housing will
come in the form of in-
filling, which is. thie building
of new houses in. existing
areas, and new develop-
ments, the primary aréa for
which will. be _above the
Upper Levels highway. ~~

are no plans to increase the

next few yeal

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answer for is. how younger’ and other innovative. forms.

_ very low,

“While Nicholls says there.

curently allowed densit 2S

construction.

In fact ver 30 j per cent tof

new" -housing: planned for

West. Vancouver “over” the

form ofi in; r-filling: .

Js

“But once again. any new

houses are going to be. ex-
; pensiv e. a ,

“Even more s expensive - will
‘be those houses developed
above,

the Upper Levels

nthe-form’ of zero lot-lines

so West Vancouver citizens
have a wide choice,” the
community plan says.

-Howeve er. _construction
above the | ‘Upper: fevels is
going to be very expensive
and proposed densities for
the new development will be

terrain ne

te

: will be in the”

So the new: developments

are likely to be more ‘ex-

pensive than the. “housing.
currently in West Vancouver

* -and-that of course will: make
' at-difficult for young:

eople.
fo remain in the community.

And ‘the community: pian
warns that the number of .
new. units’ built ‘could: ‘be.

considerably féss cif
economic conditions remain
the same.

Howese cr “the .whole
housing” situation from: the
‘viewpoint of young people
cannot be ascertained*with --
any great accuracy because
no_ recent research” ‘has. been
done into the situation. -

And as with the question
‘of seniors’ housing. Reid’ is
“unwilling .t@ make any
concrete recommendations
on what should be done, and
how, until she has more data
to work from.

But “reading “the com-
munity plan it appears West
Vancouver bas little. in-

clination, to change the

by virtue of the — housing | mix from the way it

is currently composed.

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