tae a, pee HEIGHT RESTRICTIONS are still up in the air for North Vancouver City’s Lower Lonsdale area, but pro-tower and anti-tewer forces have another chance to tell council their vision of the future at a policy committee meeting 7:30 p.m. Monday at city hall. Discussion of the findings of a view study undertaken for the city by North Vancouver-based Aitken Wreglesworth Associates Ar- chitects Ltd. will be high on the agenda for the meeting. The report lays out a series of possible development scenarios for the blocks east and west of Lons- dale Avenue between 17th Street and Esplanade. The study suggests potential maximum heights for five areas. As existing zoning stands, building By MICHAEL BECKER News Reporter heights are technically unlimited in the central Lonsdale Avenue, cen- tral Lonsdale east and west 100 block, “‘ictoria Park, Lower Lonsda asf ‘cr Lonsdale east avawe | 00, ~< ureas. A 120-fcur oulding height ceil- ing is proposed for centra! Lons- dale, a 180-foot maximum for cen- tral Lonsdale east and west 100 block, 150 feet for Victoria Park, 60 feet for Lower Lonsdale and 150 feet for Lower Lonsdale east and west 100 block areas. But the Citizens Action Group of Lower Lonsdale (CAGLL), a group of residents who fear Lower Lonsdale will change from a mixed density environment to a4 neighborhood defined by towers, has been lobbying council to con- sider a six-storey height limitation in the area, The group also proposés that developers build new low-rise ter- raced buildings so that the narrow ends of the buildings are aligned to a northeast and southwest axis, rather than the established method of having buildings fronting parallel to street grids. Said CAGLL member Dennis 3 - Friday, June 23, 1989 - North Shore News POLICY MEETING TO ADDRESS HEIGHT RESTRICTIONS IN LOWER LONSDALE Pro-tower, anti-tower forces to face off Smit, who said the development strategy proposed by his group has been workable and accepted in Europe: ‘‘The tower proposal made in the study is unbelievable. The view is blocked by high towers. I can tell you where you can find it here, close by. If you go to Central Park in Burnaby, close to Metrotown, you have a number of those things. I have been in one, visiting friends. There you see just your neighbors on the 18th floor or on the 20th floor. It’s just a bundle of towers.’” The demand for more highrise development in the city is growing: * A 28-storey Cressey project is now under construction on the St. Alice Hotel site at 120 West Se- cond Street; . NEWS photo Tom Burtey WAITING TO bat is half the fun for these T-ball Httle leaguers. These boys and girls, aged five to seven years old, crowd on to a bench during a recent game et Delbrook Park in North Vancouver. The cltildren play for the Mariners in the Highlands Little League. Approval given to move Indian Arm fish farm THE VANCOUVER Port Corp. (VPC) has approved the relocation of a controversial Indian Arm fish farm. VPC spokesman Barbara Dug- gan said Tuesday the corporation could see no reason to turn down the application by Pacific Aquaculture Lid. to move its fish farm from its present site about five kilometres north of Deep Cove to a new site approximately two kilcaetres farther north in Indian Arm. She said Pacific’s application had been approved by all other government bodies with jurisdic- tion over Indian Arm fish farms, including the Department of Fish- eries and Oceans’ aquaculture and habitat divisions, Environment Canada, the Canadian Coast Guard and North Vancouver District. “So there was no justification or treason why the port corporation could withold the water lot lease,’’ Duggan said. Pacific general manager Jim Malamas was overjoyed at the news of the approval, saying he would have ‘‘to get cracking”’ if he hoped to get fish in the new fish farm site in time to raise a crop this year. By TIMOTHY RENSHAW News Reporter Some Indian Arm residents have opposed the move and expansion of the fish farm on the grounds that its long-term environmental impacts on-iIndian Arm were unknown, and because VPC repre- sentatives had indicated last year that the corporation had placed a moratorium on new fish farm licences under its jursidiction ‘pen- ding completion of a recreational study of Indian Arm. The owner of the original fish farm, Tom Hopkins, who leased his Orlomah Beach property to Pacific in 1985, is also crying foul over the approval because it will mean his federal aquaculture per- mit at the present site will be cancelled, In addition to moving its fish farm, Pacific also plans to expand its present four-pen operation to 20 pens and increase its fish pro- duction sixfold — from 60 tons every two years to between 150 and 200 tons every year. Hopkins said Wednesday VPC’s decision was extremely unfair. “If Pacific had operated on my site without continually upsetting area residents and expanding il- legally, this small farm would still be operating,’’ he said. ‘‘As it is I have been restricted by local gov- ernment, which has turned around and rewarded them (Pacific) with a farm five times as large. There is no justice in this decision.” Hopkins says he will continue to fight the fish farm move. ‘*We are very disappointed with the Port of Vancouver,’’ he said. ‘This cancels us out. Unless we can stop this, we’re finished here.” Pacific initially ran into resident opposition Jate last year with its plans to quadruple the size of the four-pen Orlomah Beach farm. In addition, the farm’s expanded on-shore component conflicted with area single-family zoning, and the district, under continuing pressure from area residents, in- formed Pacific in March to comply or move. The new site was suggested after Pacific appealed for an alternative. Because the new farm will be within three kilometres of the orig- inal farm, contrary to aquaculture regulations, the permit for Hopkins’s farm, one of the first issued in B.C., will be cancelled. But Duggan emphasized that the new farm, which VPC considers a relocation of an existing farm rather than a new farm, and which has no on-shore component, is ex- tremely low-profile and is a kilometre away from the nearest residents both to the north and south, She said VPC had received ap- proximately 10 letters from Indian Arm residents responding to the planned move of the fish farm. Of those, she said, only one was in favor of the new farm. And while the others raised such con- cerns as pollution from the ex- panded farm, she said all the regu- lations and rules required by the various federal agencies had been satisfied by Pacific. Residents opposed, she said, were basically opposed to fish farms in general. ‘““While we respect their points of view,’’ she said, ‘‘the port has recognized that Indian Arm is zoned for multiple use. This is another use of the waterway."’ The water lot lease, she said, is subject to ongoing monitoring and could be cancelled if the farm doesn’t conform to fish farm regu- lations. * A 16-storey residential tower has been approved for 123-127 East Keith Road; * A 15-storey residential tower has been approved for the Olympic Hotel site at 140 East 2nd Street. * A 14-storey residential tower has been approved for 8th Street. * A 14-storey residential tower is planned for Eastern Avenue. * A 10-storey office tower and a 13-storey residential tower are planned for the property currently housing the North Vancouver RCMP headquarters on East 13th Street. Known as Block 61, the de- velopment will include a new RCMP facility and retail space. Said Smit: ‘‘We need the public to come out to the city council meeting on Monday.”’ Pollution charges dropped ALL FOUR charges of polluting the environment that were laid against a North Vancouver painting company and its principal have been dropped. The Crown entered a stay of proceedings Tuesday in North Vancouver provincial court in the charges against O'Sullivan Paint- ing Ltd. and Brian O'Sullivan after prosecutor Allan Blair said there was insufticient evidence linking the accused and his company to an alleged dumping of toxic waste in- to North Vancouver’s Lynn Creek. Blair said later there was no doubt that what had been dumped was bad for the creek and its fish, but no Hnk could be established between what was discharged in the creek and the accused. O'Sullivan and his company were originally charged with two counts of dumping a deleterious substance into water frequented by fish and two counts of introducing waste into the environment in connection with Sept. 9, 1988 and Nov. 16, 1988 incidents, in which waste material suspected to have been from a painting operation was alleged to have been discharg- ed into the creek. The charges resulted from a combined federal-provincial en- vironment ministry investigation. O’Sullivan’s lawyer D.F. Sutherland said Tuesday the charges were stayed ‘‘because my client was not guilty.”’ Concern about the environment, Sutherland said, had inspired a new vigilance amongst federal, provincial and municipal officials. “This time they made an honest mistake,’’ he said. Doug Collins Home & Garden Mailbox sees What's Going On........26 WEATHER Friday and Saturday, mostly sunny. Highs near 26°C. Second Class Registration Number 3885