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is gathering steam.

Committee for Suite Justice, a
newly-formed adhoc group formed
to oppose district zoning changes,
met Wednesday to map out a con-
certed plan of attack.

“We came to a consensus that
the current zoning bylaw has been
badly misinterpreted and is a good
bylaw,’’ said committee chairman
Ron Gamble. ‘For the first time
people living in homes with two
kitchens and no more than seven
people realized they have no pro-
blem.””

The current zoning bylaw for
single-family dwellings partially
defines family as ‘ta group of not
more than five unrelated persons
occupying a dwelling unit on a
non-profit basis,’’ and residentiai-
zone regulations allow for two
boarders or lodgers.

Gamble also argues the current
bylaw does not limit the number of
kitchens in a single-family nome.
‘af the current bylaw has no

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JN. Van District bylaw;

CALL FOR
P SUITE
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LOCAL COMMUNITY backlash to new North Vancouver
District illegal suite bylaw regulations currently in the works

By MICHAEL BECKER
News Reporter

Residents Association which pro-
with a par-

vides the district

tial-listing ‘inventory’? of 25 il-

legal suites identified in the area.
North Vancouver resident Nina

Kinloch is intimately affected by

the new bylaws.

“We're renting out a basement
suite to subsidize our mortgage. |
can’t afford my house otherwise,”
said Kinloch,

Kinloch says her rental suite

“conforms to building standards

and was in place when her home,

which houses five people (four

immediate family members) and
contains two kitchens, was pur-

chased.

Kinloch was told by the district
two months ago that the woman
renting her basement suite had to
move after a neighbor filed a writ-

ILLEGAL SUITES: SEE PAGES 7,8,11

imitations on kitchens, and if the
current bylaw regulates the number
of people other than a whole fami-
ly, where does the illegality come
in?’’ he asks.

Gamble said the group’s man-
date for the June 15 district public
hearing on in-law suites is to argue
for maintenance of the existing
bylaw, present a petition and lobby
for a change to the definition of
what constitutes a valid written
complaint against suspected illegal
suites. oo.

“What has been happening is
that any letters in writing were
considered valid complaints simply
because they were written,”” said
Gamble.
~ He points to a letter, dated July
4, submitted to Mayor Marilyn
Baker by Jerome Irwin on behalf
of the Lower Capilano Community

ten complaint.
“We're clean,
noisy, but all it took was for a
neighbor to complain,” she said.
Gamble said people such as
Kinloch are living legally under
current zoning bylaws.
A Feb. 12 letter to Mayor Baker
from Brian Taylor of the legal firm
Bull, Housser & Tupper, notes that
the current
“dwelling unit,’ a ‘single-family
residential building having three
separate suites with three separate
cooking facilities occupied by three

under

unrelated

within

‘dwelling unit.

the current

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tidy and not

definition of

individuals could fall
definition of

The newly-formed group will be
holding an open meeting 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday at Queen Mary Com-

munity
couver.

School

in

North

Van-

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