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PROPERTY owners in lower First Street claim
they may loose hundreds of thousands of dollars
invested in their businesses, due to a rezoning of

the area.
Nosth Vancouver City
Council wave second and
third readings Monday to a
rezoning fram special in-
dustrial to light industrial of
tower First) Street between
Hanes and Bewicke
Avenues, despite protests.
The investors said) the
rezoning will downgrade and
depreciate the value of their
land, making resale a dosing
Proposition.
Investors and their repre-

By BARRED T PISHER

semtatives had complained at
a public hearing September
27 that the new zoning put
too many restrictions on
owners, mnaking the area less
desireable to develop.

Som. oof the restrictions
jag) oregulating the size
wad siting of buildings on
the properties, limiting
driveway accesses and en-

couraging shared driveway
use to promote Helter traftie
flow.

City stalf
new voning
accommodate

amended the
FeSEICHIONS to
some of the
complaints made by in-
vestors, but these tivestars
said the chanyes were not
enough,

Peter Cha, a@ repre:
sentative of Devron-Hereules
Ine., one of the bigger Tan-
downers concerned, told
council the cuy should buy
the properties if the new
voning would have so title
effecton property values,
According to city scaly,

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the rezoning from M-3 to
M-S which will restrict
developments, is to provide
a@ non-congested area to ace
commodate provincial gov-
ernment plans fo put the
Low Level Road through to
first Street.

Voting against the change
in soning, Ald. Stella Jo
Mean told council: “People
are not enchanted with shar-
ing driveways. And with the
amount of lors down there,
there’s not much difference.
We're beyinning to be a Big
Brother, givime restrictions.

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NEWS photos Terry Peters
CHILDREN AT Capilano Elementary School spent the week
preparing for Thanksgiving weekend. The chitdren collected
food for the food bank and dressed up in pilyrim costumes to
give thanks for what thes have.

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