22 - Friday, June 25, 1993 - North S

Clark plan
to limit

councillor
terms fails

A PROPOSAL for _ nine-
year term limits for North
Vancouver City's mayor
and councillors failed to
gain support for the second
time Monday, June 14.

NORTH VANCOUVER
CITY COUNCIL
by Stephen Wisenthal

When Coun. Rod Clark first
proposed the idea last month, he
failed to gain a seconder for his
motion.

This time, Coun. Bill Bell
seconded the motion, and then
joined all the other councillors ex-
cept Clark in voting against the
idea.

Coun. Clark said that members
of many council committees and
civic boards face term limits, and
councillors should face the same
restrictions.

His proposal, which would limit
the councillors to a maximum of
three three-year terms, would re-
quire a change to the Municipal
Act.

The defeated motion suggested
that city staff “research the feasi-
bility and mechanisms to achieve’’

the plan.
Bell said the reason for term
limits for non-elected bodies is

“the public doesn’t get a chance
to throw the bums out at election
time.”

Coun. Barbara Perrault said she
did not want to ‘‘Americanize”’
the electoral system, and praised
the ‘‘valuable experience’? of
long-serving council members.

Crackdown on
delegation
presentations

IN FUTURE, North Vancouver
City councillors will get a chance
to decide if they want to hear a
delegation on a subject not related
to council business.

The move, approved Monday,
June 14, comes in the wake of a
second delegation from Lionel
Kenner to complain about coun-
cillors’ acceptance of Canada 125
medals also awarded to News col-
umnist Doug Collins.

Now, if the city clerk ‘‘is of the
opinion that the subject matter ...
is beyond the scope of council
business, the subject matter will
be referred to an in-camera
meeting of council for final deci-
sion as to whether or not the del-
egation is to be heard.”

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cuts minimum
lot size for duplexes

THE MINIMUM lot size
for a duplex in’ North
Vancouver City was
reduced to 5,900 square
feet (531 sq. m) from
6,000 square feet (540 sq.
m) Monday, June 14,
after city council heard
no objections to the
change at a public hear-

ing.

The move will affect about
150 city lots previously thought
to be 6,000 square feet. Mod-
ern surveying methods have
determined them to be
marginally shy of that figure.

City staff proposed the
change to save the owners of
those lots the $1,500 cost of
applying for a_ site-specific
bylaw to allow duplexes to be
built.

NORTH VANCOUVER
CITY COUNCIL

by Stephen Wisenthal

The blanket reduction wil!
also save council time spent
holding public hearings and
considering a potential 150
separate applications,

The move wits prompted by
the third such bylaw applica-
tion this year.

Staff will now investigate
whether an even lower mini-
mum lot size for duplexes is
warranted, but same coun-
cillors said they were against
any further reductions.

The change has passed se-
cond and third readings and
will come up for final adoption
ata future council meeting.

Councillors Barbara Sharp
and John Braithwaite were op-
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