6% RENT HIKE CONCEPT ENDORSED

NV City supports
Westview tenants

By NANCY CAMPBELL

RENT increases should be
kept as close to six per cent
as possible, North Van-
couver City council decided
at its meeting Monday night,
and the provincial Ren-
talisman will shortly receive a
letter saying just that.

Council’s decision was
spurred on by the plight of
the Westview Tenants
Association, which is
currently battling 26 per cent
rent hike.

David Pratt, speaking for
the association, appeared
before council] asking for
council to intervene in the
dispute. He asked the City to
investigate the landlord,
Allied Holdings  Ltd.,
determine whether the
increase was justified and to
ask Allied to begin
negotiating directly with the
tenants.

“We, as tenants, are
willing to shoulder some
financial burdens during a
recession, but not 26 per
cent -- that’s unacceptable,’
Pratt told council. “We're
limited to five or six per cent
in many years now, and the

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landlord should be more
reasonable.”

Aldermen, however, were
chary of direct intervention
particularly after being
warned by the city-clerk that
the case was shortly to be
heard in court and com-
ments could prejudice the
trial.

Alderman Gary Payne
suggested the compromise of
a letter to the Rentalsman

making no specific reference —

to the tenants association
but nonetheless urging that
rent increases be kept as
close as possible to the six-
and-five guidelines laid
down by the _ = federal
government. ;

After some opposition,
particularly from Alderman
Stella Jo Dean who felt
council would be put on the
spot to limit its budget in-
creases to six per cent,

council approved writing the

letter.

Payne countered Dean's
argument by pointing out
that at the annual meeting of
the Union of B.C.
Municipalities the City agree
to..limit next year’s budget
increase to five per cent — a
goal the city treasurer said
was well within reach.

A3 - Wednesday, November 10, 1982 - North Shore News

ALSO
INSIDE

CARTING carts back to
the store on Lonsdale at
17th in North Van-
couver keeps Super
Valo manager Bill

Belich busy when he has
to do it every week. He
usually finds 50-60 carts
in the immediate area
and an average of four
never make it back.
Every year the store

adds about 25 shopping
carts at $110 each to
replace ones which are
unfound, and spends
about $5,000 on
maintenance of existing
ones. Customers who
disappear with the carts
might want to think
about where the store's

cost gets passed on to.

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