A7 - Sunday News, July 26, 1981

Dear Editor:

Your publication has
consistently misrepresented
the so-called high rise issue
in West Vancouver, and
your front page story of July
-22 was no exception. The
issue was not as your
reporter describes it, one
which divided on lines of
Opposition to or support for
development. It was in fact,
a decision on whether it was
proper in the cicumstances,
to downzone land which had
been designated for apart-
ment construction 23 years
ago. The issue of pro or anti
high fise development for
this area therefore was
decided in 1958. The current
debate was whether or not to
change the 1958 rules near

the end of the
figuratively ‘in the
inning.

The error which you have
been perpetuating can best
be illuminated by assuming
the question before council
had been on changing the
zoning to permit highrise
construction. There is little
doubt it would be rejected
unanimously. So much for
the issue of pro or anti high
rise development per se.

Reasons for defeating this
proposed downzoning can be
grouped in two categories:

1. Even if legally valid
(and there is real doubt
about this) it is morally
wrong and unfair to destroy
substantial property values
by arbitrarily changing rules

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that had existed for 23 years.
To do so would also violate
the important principle that
government at all levels
should maintain a climate of
reasonable certainty for the
conduct of social and
business activity.

2. Even if downzoning was
legally and morally justified
as a principle, there was not
sufficient broad community
interest in these cir-
cumstances to justify its
application.

One need look no further
than the composition of the
group supporting down-

zoning to see the point. They

were almost exclusively
those already living in the
apartment zone and
therefore with a special and

The message was clear

Dear Editor:

Thanks is due District
council for affording the
people of the North Shore
the opportunity to speak on
the recommendations of the
Community Hazards Task
Force last Tuesday night. I
indicated that council is
sensitive to public feeling on
such matters as the chemical
industries in the District. It
was clearly evident to
anyone who attended that
meeting, that it represented
all of the North Shore from
West Vancouver to Deep
Cove, and not just a small
pocket of people in one

section.

There was not. one
dissenting voice and in spite
of the implications of a
paper circulated by an
organization giving its name
as COPES, that they were
‘concerned by the
exaggerations and  inac-
curacies expressed by
certain sections of the public
and media regarding the
manufacturing of Chlorine
by people more concerned
with sensationalism than
truth,” the fact remains, that
apart from the impressive
turnout, that out of some
twenty speakers who made

their views known, there
were at least ten delegates
from organizations which
must represent many more
hundreds who were unable
to attend.

The message was quite
clear. That the recom-
mendation of the Com-
munity Hazards Task Force
be carried out. District
council has now to act. Their
path is quite clear. They
asked for people's opinion
and they got it.
Unanimously.

C.F. Vagg
North Vancouver

‘essentially selfish interest. If

there had been any broadly
based community support, it
would have been manifested
by West Vancouver's very
active ratepayers groups,
who on this issue were
notably silent.

D.S.A. Lanskail
Alderman
West Vancouver

(Editor's note: The.proposed
downzoning bylaw was
defeated by a 4-2 recorded
vote Monday with no
discussion by any aldermen
prior to the vote. Aldermen
opposed to the motion were
Robert Hicks, John Hum-
phires, Don Lanskail and
George Morfitt. In favor
weré Diana Hutchinson and
Mayor Derrick Humphreys.)

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