‘Dear Editor:

In reply to your article
Home. Burning’ in Sunday
"News, issue Dec. 28/80.
| J.am growing sick .and
fired: of < hearing _ people

policy. If you sell your
: Ao a builder on the

the building is
‘to be moved, thén have it in
“writing so he is legally bound
to doso, not torch it.

You can then sue for

~ breach of promise rather

, Dear Editor:

As far as I know, North
Vancouver District Council
has never told taxpayers just
how their taxes are set. Or
invited their views when
several alternative methods
were open to Council.

Many, if not the majority
‘of taxpayers, are unaware
‘that each yeas-the provincial
government requires
mrunicipal councils to choose
one of three options,
described as -A, C or D.
These options don’t decide
the actual amount of taxes
that will be paid, but they do
specify the percentage of the
assessed value of your

’ property that may be taxed.
The percentage varies for

An of these Sptiogs a ate; in’

my opinion, quite unfair,
becausé¢ they overcharge
homeoWners and un-
dercharge, big commercial
and industrial properties.
Many of the _ bigger
municipalities in the Lower

Auxiliary

Dear Editor:

Regarding the December
24th article, “Christmas in
the Hospital”, by Carol
Stafford, I would like to
mention that it is the
Auxiliary to Lions Gate
Hospital that docs the
decorating and painting
every year in the hospital.
The decorating chairman
Mrs. Trudy Purdy puts in
many, many hours planning
and organizing the
decorating. A committee of
volunteers then decorate
and paint on an assigned day
to help make the hospital
more festive.

Sharon Larson
Auxiliary President
Lions Gate Hospital

RDER IN CHINES SEY

different types of property - .
‘their. ‘market value: _ Ee
“This haS* ‘brought™ about a” “both
fyither

department. whose. amen, “by

the way”, risk their.own lives. ~ =

to save yours. and your
childrens. I know I would
rather see the burning of an
innocent “wood | floor and
memories than a fireman run

compiai t. } ‘from a burning building with
Fire Department's torching

the remains, of a charred,

dead’ child in‘ his arms who

could Have’ been ‘saved due
to valuable practical - ex-
perience and training.

Chief “Bob MacDonald
really let his men down when |
not stating his views on the
subject... Nobody . likes a
fence sitter. He feels his men

Mainland chose Option A
when these options were first
introduced and stuck to it
because it is the least bur-
densome to homeowners.
But North Vancouver
District and City both chose
Option D, éven though it
placed a heavier tax burden
on Single family residential.

What makes it especially
bad this year is the huge
increase in market values,
and, therefore, assessments,
of homes. Big commercial
and industrial properties also
went up in value but not as
dramatically as single family
residences. What's more,

_ because of the formula used

by the Assessment
Authority, large industries
are always assessed at under

shift: in the tax
burden in 1981. Under

Option D, «:single family

homeowners will now

numbers of purniie requests
_ received: What does he have
. a training officer for? Just to.
drive around im his little red
- van!

He should be screening
all home burning requests
‘and choose those which ‘the

_men are going to learn the —

most from at the least bother
to adjoining property. Let

“property knowing they are:
» going to have to remove Or
destroy existing’. buildings, _
“pay for just that: NOT use
Valuable time on inadequate

assume an additional. 3.8%
“of the tax burden while
industry will pay 24% less
and other large business
concerns 17.1% less. :
What this means is that
homeowners in
Vancouver District face a
substantial increase in taxes

~ this year.

What is” “our: District
Council “doing - about it?
Exactly nothing. Worse still,
the mayor: ‘did not. even place
this: item .on:,:the Council
Agenda, where it‘could have
been: discussed i in public...

The first time I heard that
our Council would be staying
with Option D for:.another
year was a news item in the
North Shore News on Dec. 7
which stated that while Les
;Wan- has: ‘gone off Option
North . Wencduver
municipalities’ are staying

with the old method of
assessing property taxes”, .
How is it that a  dgeision

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lives...

Lyn Maurer.
North, Vancouver

.

makes 2: at _palese to change

its. option, the option
previously used is
automatically renewed.

What the mayor has done

‘is (a) deniéd me;"'as your

elected representative, . the
opportunity of diséussing the

pros and cons of Option A, |

and. .(b). denied you. as
taxpayers, the right to voice
your views. 4

] have written the mayor

expressing my Strong
disapproval of his actions.
’ ’
Ernie Crist
Alderman ’
N.V. District

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