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PLAN TO get out and
participate in tonight’s
(Friday) community-wide
Plan To Get Out Alive
family fire drill set for 6
p.m. North Vancouver
City Fire Department fire
inspector Gavin Soanes,
above, is out to educate
local residents about the
importance cf planning
for fire safety on the
home front.

WEST VANCOUVER District Council has called for staff
input prior to making a final decision on the West Van-
couver United Church’s request for rezoning to allow a
subsidized senior citizens residence into a single-family area.

A second evening of public hear-
ings Monday to look into the
four-storey building proposed for
Esquimalt Avenue brought pro-
testing residents out in large, vocal
numbers.

Most people said they felt
betrayed that council should con-
sider allowing a multiple-family
residence into a_ single-family
neighborhood.

“Why do we have zoning regu-
lations when they’re constantly be-
ing eroded?’’askcd Esquimalt resi-
dent Elaine Fonseca. ‘‘I’m tired of
the do-gooders in this communi-
ty... They’re all people who do not
live in this area, who don’t have to
put up with the traffic, noise,
stress and tension.”

Many of the protesters. resented
the fact that they were being
painted as ‘‘selfish and shameless”
for not welcoming the residence
into their area.

“The United Church has very
adroitly allowed this to become a
motherhood issue,’? said Sylvia
Rose of Esquimalt Avenue, who
called the project a ‘‘cumbersome
great monster.”’

“Spot rezoning will bring more
headaches,’’ said one Fulton
Avenue resident and senior citizen
Kenneth Charman.

Clifford Johnson pointed out

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By MAUREEN CURTIS
Conirituting Writer

the “trun down condition of many
single-family areas adjacent to
multiple-family zoned
neighborhoods.”’

John Elton of Fulton Avenue
used computer generated diagrams
to show how spot rezoning of the
two lots needed for the residence
would put the whole neighborhood
ina state of flux.

immediate neighbors of the res-
idence would have difficulty selling
their homes to other single fami-
lies, and so in order to get enough
money to buy a replacement home
they would have to sell to
multiple-family home developers
— necessitating more ‘‘spot rezon-
ing.”’ .

“It’s the insidious nature of
rezoning,” Elton said. ~

“We in the neighborhood are
not selfish people who dislike the
elderly. We would be equally
against any group that wanted to
come in and change our area,”’ he
added.

Resident Dr. Peter Bell-Irving
said that everyone had lost sight of
what the church was trying to do
— help the longtime, elderly resi-
dents with low incomes afford ac-

THE NORTH Shore News upheld a strong showing in the

recent British Columbia and

Yukon Community Newspa-

pers Association contest, finishing in the top 25 per cent and
garnering two photography awards for sports and spot news

photos.

As well, the News won the top
spot for its circulation class in the
association's blanket B.C. and
Yukon-wide classified sales incen-
tive awards.

News photographer Mike
Wakefield captured the second

place in the spot news category for
his picture of a man, hands in the
air, being arrested by RCMP.

In the sports category, former
News photographer Stuart Davis
won first place for his photograph
of a cyclist who took a spill during
a Gastown race,

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commodation in the community.
He suggested that protesting
neighbors were afraid of the
unknown.

**This will be a lovely group of
old people who will enhance your
neighborhood,”’ he said.

‘*These are the people who have
given us beautiful West Vancouver
-— we should support them in
every way,’’ added 40-year-old Sim
Clar.

“It’s a bad development fo: a
gocd purpose,” said Bill Kinsey of
Esquimalt.

United Church representative
Bruce Scott called the resident?
fears of plummeting property
values exaggerated and groundless.
He also predicted that the
building, with its underground
parking, would actually improve
parking problems in the area, as
few of the residents would own
cars.

Calling for a staff report on the
subject, Ald. Mark Sager
specifically asked for the waiting
list to get into Kiwanis seniors
housing in order to better assess
the need for further such housing.
He also wanted a comparative
study of parking around seniors
residence Libby Lodge.

Ald. David Finlay then asked
for a staff assessment of the park-
ing situation in the area, which
already includes the senior citizens
recreation centre and two new
seniors housing projects.

“The photography department
has always done well in these sorts
of awards,’’ noted News
photography manager Terry
Peters. ‘‘We’re always happy to be
recognized in peer competition.

“I'm always proud to see any of
my staff receive awards in these
competitions. This type of recogni-
tion goes a long way to encourag-
ing a high quality of work,’ added
Peters.

In its circulation category, the
News tied for second place for

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Doug Collins......... 9
Editorial Page........ 6
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TV Listings..........29
What's Going On.....14

POTENTIAL CONFLICT OF INTEREST

Finlay report underway

WEST VANCOUVER municipal staff are preparing a
report looking into the potential conflict of interest Ald.
David Finlay announced at the Sept. 28 public hearing into
the Fisherman’s Cove marina/residential proposal.

Municipal clerk Doug Allan in-
formed West Vancouver District
Council Monday that completion
of the report could be expected this
week for presentation to Mayor
Don Lanskail. :

Finlay excused himself from the
Sept. 28 hearing after making his
announcement.

According to staff, his potential
conflict of interest stems from
some unrelated conveyancing work
undertaken by his legal firm for
the developer of the proposed
Fisherman’s Cove project, Inter-
national Land Corporation.

“How long has this alderman
been involved in a conflict of in-
terest?’’? asked Fisherman’s Cove
resident Jack Howard at the Oct. 5

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community news, tied for second
place for pictures and tied for third
place for best front page.

Honored at the recent associa-
tion convention as best all-round
newspapers in their categories were
The Ladysmith Chemainus
Chronicle, 100 Mile House Free
Press, Williams Lake Tribune,
Abbotsford, Sumas and Matsqui
News, Whistier Question, Grand
Forks Gazette and The Surrey
Leader.

council meeting.

‘“We, as taxpayers, would like to
feel that the people who make the
serious decisions that affect all of
us are not encumbered in any way
by favors of the past,’? Howard
pointed out.

“You'll have no disagreement
from us,’ replied Mayor Don
Lanskail.

Allan said he was about two
thirds of the way through the
report which will include a state-
ment from Ald. Finlay.

The Fisherman's Cove develop-
ment proposal, which was the
focus of a lengthy and heated
public debate, is slated to come up
before council Oct. 19,

NEWS phetographer Mike
Wakefield...captured second place
in spot news category.

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