NOVEMBER 25, 1998

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Wind
Storm
Strikes

Robert Galster

News Reperter
roberr@nsucws.com

POWER cut out and
trees toppled Monday
night and early Tuesday
as wind gusts of more
than 100 km-h_ blasted
through the North
Shore.

North Vancouver's Laura and Mark
Home were jolted awake as something
crashea dewn on their house. Like
dozens of other North Shore reudents,
their honie was fit by a falling tree.

“Nobody was hurt and the mur
ance company has been here and
thesre voing to be sending someone
out coday,” said Horne. “TP hate paving
for insurance, but when somethag tike
this happens vou realize it’s worth it.”

According to Environment
Canada’s Rity Lacate, the Lower
Mainised’s strongest sustained winds
of 83 karh were recorded at West

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MARK Horne awoke in the early morning hours of Tuesday to the sound of something hitting his North Vancouver home. It didn’t take

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Martin Millerchip

News Reporter
miller@nsnews.com

WEST Vancouver has a seawalk and
North Vancouver District has a plan.

Public process, and a Jot of time and money may ultimately
give the district whar West Vancouver already has — a walkway,
or trail system next to the district's waterfront.

Calling their concept a “50-year vision,” Maureen Bragg
and Brian Platts outlined for council Monday long-range plans
that are designed to increase public access to the waterfront
berween Maplewood and Deep Cove.

In 1994, council first established a task force to develop a
long-term plan for the Dollarton-Deep Cove waterfront.

That report was presented in 1995. The present council sub-

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Task force presents North
Vancouver District with a
vision of public access

sequently created a separate committee to examine issues per-
taining te the district’s industrial waterfront, Phase Uf of the
task force was convened to devise implementation. of the plan-
ning objectives outlined in the 1995 report.

Responding to a question from Coun. Ernie Crist, Bragg
told council Monday, “Generally speaking we are behind other
municipalities in our waterfront planning.”

Bragg, who is chairman of the Phase fH task force, empha-

sized that the plan presented to council was “the beginning of

the process, not the end.”

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long to figure out the cause of the sound as wind gusts of more than 100 km-h swirled through the North Shore.

No cost estimates were provided tor the suggested purchase
of lots in the Dollarton, Beachview Drive, Cardinal Crescent,
and Lockehaven areas.

However, Bragg later told the News in many cases the lots
could be resold after subdivision for waterfront access.

Highlights ef the draft plan recommendations include:

@ a public trail svstem through Maplewoud Business Park (1,
see map on page +), connecting the Seymour River and
Maplewood Farm with the conservation area (3);

@ a waterfront pedestrian fink berween the conservation area
and the Tsleil-Wauruth land (5). The ail would continue to
utilize the Dollarton Highway, however, over 50-plus years, the
district could purchase these lots as they come on the market,
to provide a waterfront pedestrian link between Daly Street and
Horton Street (4);

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