Se Organ donations into TER Fr Sree on ree | wegen eee A al 7 FORT News O8S.21 NEWS onote Stunt Davis . a m” . a” Flip-side drive THE BRIDGE over the Capilano River in West Vancouver was the scene of an acci- dent Friday afternoon when a car hit the curb on the bridge, careened across the road and flipped onto its side. Traffic into West Vancouver was backed up until crews g could clear away the automobile. sports PAGE 13 needed PAGE 29 4 Sonn tee Me atts THREE, SIX-STOREY Ancore development cen- dominiums will rise above the Upper Levels Highway within eight or nine months as a result of unanimous approval of the project by West Vancouver District Council Monday night, Mid. David) Finlay. head of soumes new Desclopment and Planning Comuinmittee. recommend: cdoapprosal of the conime byhaw and community plan amendnient bylaw that would allow Ancore Development to proceed. The committee found that the bylaw amendments were in keeping with the intentions of West Van- couver’s community plan, Monday's approval follows two previous public hearings that had given cesidents an opportunity to voice opinion on the controversial project, an issue that figured strongly in the November municipal election. Ald. Mark Sager said the 1.5 units-per-acre zoning originally prescribed for the Ancore property was a “tool for negotiating with developers’? and the Upper Levels is generally intended ta be developed at 2.5 units per acre (which the Ancore proposal cont plies with). “The Upper Levels will be developed at some time,” Sager said, “and if developed solely with single-family dwellings, that would leave only five per cent open space. SPACE NECESSARY “That kind of open natural space is Very necessary,” he added. Sager said he feared single-fami- \y development at i .S-unit density would result in homes being affor- dable only by the “super rich". Although he has said he is against apartments above the Up- per Levels, Ald. Rod Day felt that multiple-family development was the most suitable solution for this specific site. Day stressed that the rezoning will be “site specific’, leaving the rest. of the topographically sen- By MAUR Contrbntio aA sive Zone Vwo area zoned att. units per aere. The Ancore development at 2.5 units per acre is “not high density at all’, Day said, comparinz it with Panorama Village, whieh has f4 units per acre. “Pam still totally committed to the principle of slow. coatrotied growth above the Upper Levels Highway,”’’ emphasized Ald. Alex Brokenshire, who also supported the bylaw amendments. HOMES FREED UP Ancore principals said the con- dominiums they are building will give West Vancouver's older “empty nesters’? somewhere to move to, thus freeing up the larger homes for young families. Ancore president Bob Annable said his company is planning the condominiums to suit a ‘normal demogriphic mix, Each of the three buildings should contain 25 units ranging in size from 11000 te 1,600 sq. ft.” Annable could give no figures on the cost of the development or projected prices of the units. The necessity for acquiring an extra 17 acres to bring the project within the 2.5 units per acre densi- ty added to the cost, Annable agreed. Former Ald. Doreen Blackbarn, who was one of the citizens who spoke out against the proposal during public hearings, said she was glad the whole of Zone Two had not been rezoned to 2.5 She also said future non-con- forming applications should not be processed while the necessary changes 10 the community plan are being made.