~ Friday, October 23, 1987 - North Shore News

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LONSDALE QUAY TOWER

Reader questions NV

aldermen’

Dear Editor:

As suspected, after North Van-
couver City Council gave one
developer 90 days of secrecy
(North Shore News, July 17), some
aldermen are now prepared to
make a major amendment to the
official community plan for the
benefit of that developer. Twelve
days notice followed by a short
council meeting the day after
Thanksgiving hardly gave the citi-
zens an opportunity to evaluate the
proposal.

The community plan was
developed after public protests
about some council actions. If it is
to be amended it should only be
done after holding a referendum,
or be made an issue at the next
election. Then, if approval to
amend is given, the property under
discussion should be open for all
development proposals, not just
one.

Allowing this amendment ~will be
the thin edge of the wedge. If it is
approved ێvery property owner in

Hotel will

Dear Editor:

1 am writing to express my
dismay at the lack of uproar over
the pending closing of the Interna-
tional Plaza Hotel.

The Plaza was a North Shore
landmark for all its life and its
passing is of no apparent interest
to North Shore residents.

North Vancouver has moved
backward in the tourism business
with the closing of the Plaza.
There is no longer a farge (by
North Shore standards) hotel in
North or West Vancouver. .

While we have some excellent
smaller properties, they cannot at-
tract the small convention or large
meetings that spill over into other
North Shore businesses.

Also with the Plaza’s departure,
sleeping room business may go
across the bridge when the smaller
hotels are filled. My experience has
been that when an area loses
business, it takes five times as

News thanked

Dear Editor:

On behalf of the parents and
gymnasts in the. Best Ever Pro-
gram, I would like to thank you
for the excellent News Viewpoint
Fan the Flame in the Sept. 6 North
Shore News.

As of Sept. 23, we have had one
response from.Mr. Doug Player,
West Vancouver School Board,
offering us the free use of a gym,
but unfortunately the gym was too
small.

At the present time we are train-
ing on a part-time basis at a gym in
Coquitlam and a gym in Ab-
botsford.

It is greatly appreciated having
an excellent paper like the North
Shore News writing articles on
local issues ‘and trying to assist us.
Don Peachey, administrator
Best Ever Gymnastics Pregram

motives

the zrea will oe applying for one to
allow them to build their own high
rise. Three-storey apartments will
be demolished to make room for
20-storey ones. Rents for the stores
on Lonsdale will triple overnight
forcing many small businesses to
close. Lower Lonsditle will become
another canyon city. If this is what
all the citizens of North Vancouver
want they must be given an oppor-
tunity to vote for it.

The aldermen who voted for the
90 days of secrecy back in July,
who gave a free hand to one
developer and who now = seem
ready to destroy the community
plan with little or no input from
the citizens, cannot help but have
their motives questioned.

Why the secrecy? Why | the
hurry? Who will benefit? Who will
profit? The future of. the entire
Lower Lonsdale areca is at stake
here, It must not be ler't to a few
aldermen to railroad it past the
electorate.

Donald M. Currie
North Vancouver

be missed

much work to get it back.

So, to the staff and management
of the International Plaza Hotel at
least one person is sad to see you
go. Good luck for all your
endeavors! I'll miss you. |
Kirk L. Johnson ;

General manager, Lonsdale Quay

UST

Postal system alternative needed

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We seem to manage when postal
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with a better system which would
free us from constant blackmail

(no pun intended).

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North Vancouver

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