FRIDA October 18, 1996 Handbags ;Sackpa de Ra yeas pes Ist Floor, 106 West ist Sf. Tues-Sat 985-2298 THIS police car smashed into three parked cars on Tuesday in Lower Lonsdale. The police cruiser is a write-off. The Mountie was not injured. By Martin Millerchip Contributing Writer FOR the second time in 10 months and the third time in four years a major developer has lost its bid to rezone Dollarton industrial waterfront for multi-family housing. The close 4-3 North Vancouver District Council vate on Tuesday came asa bitter blow to United Properties Ltd. The company had hoped to trade community waterfront access and a number of amenities for 169 apartments and 10 townhomes on the 6.25- acre Cates Landing site located between 3795 and given a bru By Anna Marie D’Angelo News Reperter A North Vancouver Mountie rammed into three parked cars on Tuesday in the Lower Lonsdale area. The accident caused more than $40,000 worth of damage to vehicles. Damage to the police car was more than $25,000. It is a write off. The police car was less than two years old. “It appears the police vehicle lust control and skidded into the parked vehicles,” said North Vancouver RCMP Const. Catherine Galliford. The cruising Mountie was responding to an after- noon report that a bylaw officer had been assaulted. No one was injured in the crash. The empty parked cars located in the 200-block of West Esplanade included a Dodge van, a Cadillac and an Acura. The general duty police officer involved has less than five years’ police experience. He was travelling cast on West Esplanade just before the crash. An inves- tigation of crash circumstances is under way. Last ‘Tuesday, on Oct. 8, another Vancouver Mountie had a different problem with his police vehicle. Ir was stolen. Galliford said the police service dog officer was responding to a complaint of a hit and run at 2 a.m. near Save-On-Foods on Marine Drive. At the scene the police officer spoke to one sus- pect while another kept on walking, A suspect jumped into the police dog wagon and sped away. A police officer on patrol spotted the stolen police car speeding with its lights offon Marine Drive. The stolen police velicle was ditched WEATHER Saturday: Cloudy with showers High 13°C, low 9°C. ph Bt Oa Or ly near 3rd Street and St. Davids. A police dog was brought in and picked up the suspect's track, according to the RCMP. Despite help from a resident, police lost the suspect. A short time later, a man was checked by the police at 2nd Street and St. Davids. The man was arrested in connection with the theft of the police vehicle. While inside the police car, the suspect kicked at the police car windows. He then “appeared to pass out” and was taken to hospi- tal by ambulance, according to the North Vancouver RCMP. The man fought in the ambulance and was subdued by an accompanying police officer. The man was eventually locked in police cells. Meanwhile the first suspect approached by the police dog officer on Marine Drive was arrested nes, Marine Drive. He “resisted arrest.” At one point he was in a tree shouting obscenities with a barking police dog below him, according to one witness, Charges are pending against a 27-year-old North Vancouver man and a 20-year-old Vancouver man. Meanwhile the North Vancouver Mounties have reconimended impaired driving charges against the driver of'a Ford Explorer which col- lided with a police car at East Keith Road and St. Georges Avenue on Sept. 4. The $25,000 police car was a write-off. A Mountic and the Ford daver were taken to hospital and Sater wide tty 82 Bright Lights............ nseeeeee AD GH CrOSSWOTK...cescsssseeneseeenee United Properties itd. development defeated 3919 Dollarton Highway. The mostly industrial-zoned property is owned by Noble Towing Ltd. and McKenzie Barge and Marineways Ltd. “E think everybody fost on this one,” United vice-president Roger Moors told the News Thursday. “Yes, United fost, but this is a major loss for the district taxpayers. No fishing pier, no waterfront access, no amenity building.” Instead, said Moors, it was likely that industrial use would intensity on the McKenzie site while the Noble property could be sub-divided with its por- tion of industrial land being sold to a aew owner. Noble ‘Towing closed its operation two weeks ago. But Seymour-area residents at Tuesday’s meet- ing were pleased at the outcome for which some had fost hope. “This just shows what can happen when com- munities work together with council, with staff to come up with better ideas than the ones that are on the table. It shows that as individuals we can help make the process work,” ‘Trevor Carolan told the News. 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