Wednesday, July 1, 1992 — North Shore News - §& ALDERBRIDGE Layoffs continue INTERIORS ANOTHER WAVE of layoffs has hit North Van- couver-based Seaspan International Ltd. Seaspen, spokesman Debbie Tardiff said the company was forced to lay off an additional 30 people this week, bringing the total number of employees laid-off to about 150. | Discontinued Lines, Scratch and Dent, | pulp sail workers. ‘The Job etion entered’ is 17th day i|Fire Damaged, and One of a Kind Items} wet teat Sear genines zou | Je FURNITURE - LAMPS + DECORATOR ITEMS| | - ACCESSORIES ETC.... | chemicals for the forest industry. Tardiff said she does not know how much money the strike is costing Seaspan but added that it ‘‘musi be pretty substantial.’’ Meanwhile, both sidcs in the labor dispute say they are willing to return to the bargaining table but are net op- timistic the strike will end soon. . Mediator Vince Ready was brought in to try to bring the two sides together over the weekend but the talks broke down after only three hours. A total of 12,000 pulp mill workers are off the job. Wages and holiday time are at issue. Water watch THE GREATER Vancouver Regional District (GVRD) recorded Monday’s water consumption as the lowest in June after most GVRD municipatities responded quickly to « call for outcoor water bans. GVRD spokesman Bud Elsie said 216 mitlion gallons were used Monday in the GRYD’s 18 member municipalities after the previous Monday's record high of 365 million gaitons. “It’s been terrific. There is real -cooperation,’’ said Elsie. The Seymour Lake reservoir water level was up one foot and the Capilano Lake reservoir increased two feet by Monday. Elsie attributed the increased water levels to the recent sain, the early refease of dammed water in three moun- . tain lakes and municipal water bans. But Seymour is still down six feet ard Capilano is down eight feet. Both reservoirs are normally spilling excess water at the start of July and the beginning of two months of peak water demand. Ten days of rain are now required to bring reservoir levels up to normal fevels for this time of year. According to GVED statisitics, !ast June’s average water consumption was 227 million gallons with no day recorded above 300 million gallons. This June, the GVRD has recorded 18 days of 300- million-gallons-plus water consumption. An unusually small mountain snowpack and early heat waves have contributed to the water shortage. Zoning adds office use to NV industrial site Council considers bylaw changes SALE CONTINUES _ Open Daily 10:00 - 5:30 Open Canada Day, July 1st A NORTH Vancouver business park’s future could be brighter if an amend- ment to a 25-year-old zon- ing bylaw is passed to per- mit the leasing of office space on the site. By Layne Christensen - Contributing Writer _ The bylaw amendment received third reading at city council’s June 22 meeting and is expected to be finally adcpted on July 13. Under the current zoning, the site, located at 1225 East Keith Rd., is designated for industrial use. With the amendment, the centre will be permitted to lease up to 20% of its floor space for office use. Keith Business Centre president Barry Jackson said he had pushed for the zoning change to attract light- and medium-industry te- nants, ““We lost a couple or three te- nants to Burnaby and to other municipalities (because) we haven’t had this flexibility of be- ing able to handle engineers, ar- chitects, building contractors and so on,’’ said Jackson. Approximately 14,000 of the 72,000-square-foot site has re- mained vacant since 1988, he add- ed. par in i NORTH VANCOUVER CITY COUNCIL Jackson said the move toward lighter industrial ue¢ in the area is linked to the establishment of the Park and Tilford Shopping Cen- tre, which has brought a “strong introduction of residential cus- tomers into that area.”’ “And it also ties in with the changes in industry where we're seeing more and more high-tech industries introduced into North Vancouver,”’ he said. The amendment should make the Keith Business Centre more attractive to prospective tenants. But the bylaw’s definitions of what is industrial and what is of- fice use remain fuzzy, said Ald. Bill Bell. ‘*You’re asking council to con- tinue to-do this in an ad hoc manner to meet your current needs as opposed to what you’d really like us to do and that is to look at the entire definition (of uses under the bylaw),’’ Bell told Jackson. “You're absolutely right,’’ an- swered Jackson. ‘‘That bylaw was written in 1967, and it’s been hacked away at on an industrial use basis ever since. And here I am again hacking away at it.”” Jackson fater told the News that the change was long overdue. ZAKS 922-4171 FAX: 922-9735 WZ WEST VAN FLORIST LTD 1821 MARINE DRIVE, WEST VANCOUVER, B.C. V7V 147 922-2968 Did you know BC's Children’s Hospital is a medical research centre dedicated to eliminating childhood disease by developing better techniques for diagnosing, treating and preventing illness? gbe YY GD A Children’s Hospital Putting smiles back where they belong.