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WATERFRONT PROPERTY

WV land acquisition questioned

SELF-described West Vancouver
District Council ‘‘watchdog"’
Lionel Lewis continues to wage a
weekly war on what he perceives to
be the indiscretions of elected and
non-elected municipal officialdom.

By MAUREEN CURTIS
Contributing Writer

But West Vancouver Mayor Don
Lanskail recently blasted Lewis, an
Ambleside Dundarave Ratepayer
member, for his continued criti-
cisms and queries into such issues
as the expropriation of the Thor-
con Enterprises Ltd. waterfront
property on Argyle Avenue in
West Vancouver, which took place
over a year ago.

“You sir, like a dog with a
bone, have gnawed at this for over
a year — trying to embarrass
council. You are an aid and a
comfort to those people who want
to defeat this policy (of acquiring
waterfront policy for municipal
park and seawalk facilities),””
charged Lanskail, after a four-
page reply to Lewis’s latest list of
questions had been read out.

“| do support that policy,”
retorted Lewis, who nevertheless
maintained that West Vancouver
had lost some $420,000 in the pro-
cess of acquiring the Thorcon
property.

Lanskail maintained that
Lewis’s questions went beyond the
legitimate quest for information

and bordered on harassment.

According to Lewis, the
municipality wasted $420,000
because it eventually acquired the
Thorcon property for $955,000,
when it was ‘‘available for sale at
and purchased for $535,000."

The previous owner of the land
sold to Thorcon for $535,000,
after listing it at $645,000, a price
the municipality deemed excessive
at that time.

According to district planner
Steve Nicholls in his reply to
Lewis’s queries, there was nothing
wrong with Thorcon’s having pur-
chased the property, but a problem
arose when the company applied to
develop it for a duplex, which
would have increased the value of
land the municipality has ear-
marked for eventual seawalk and
park extension.

When a land swap involving
municipal fand (now worth over $2
million) was rejected by Thorcon,
council expropriated the property
for a sum determined by the
courts.

But Lewis said the municipality
should have obtained an option
from the original owner to pur-
chase the land.

“In 30 years in business as a
major land and property devel-
oper, I have never lost a property
that I wished to buy,’’ Lewis said.
“If an option had actually been
offered...surely he would not have
refused it.’’

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