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NEWS photo Tecry Peters

A PAYLESS Paving truck driver faces charges after his truck flipped while turning left onto the Upper Levels Highway
on-ramp at 15th Street. The accident again raises the issue of truckers not checking brakes. Story page 5.

THE PEOPLE spoke
and council listened,

NORTH VANCOUVER
DISTRICT COUNCIL
By Martin Millerchip

That's what “overjoyed
Seymour residents — were
telling each ether in the wake
of Monday's decision by
North Vancouver District
Council to rezone Cove
Forest ant Mountain Forel t
toa parks designation.

An unexpectedly wide 6-1
margin supported the rezon-
ing bylaws with only Mayor
Murray Dykeman remaining
steadtasuy opposed to com-
plete preservation of the heavily forested lands

Dykeman cailed a re to the meeting
overflow crowd jumped to its feet and accorded
council an unprecedented standing ovation after the
first vole, :

“This is the nsost wonderful thing that could pos-
sibly have happened.” said Anita Sandhoefner, one
of the organizers af the Group United Around
Responsible Development (GUARD).

NEWS photo Paul McGrath

SEYMOUR RESIDENTS succeeded Monday in obtaining a parks
and recreation zoning for Cove and Mountain forests.

“ts aresult of a community pulling together

and a result of a council responding to the voice of

that community.”

Members of GUARD have waged a year-long
fight to protect Cove and Mountain forests, collect
ing over £1,000 signauires on a petition opposing
development.

See NVD page 3

“We could house five or even
10 million people in the Lower
Mainland, a million people on .

‘the North Shore alone. The

problem is that after we have
turned our region, including
the North Shore, into a con-
crete jungle, the population
problem will still exist... We
have the right to determine
our own envirunment.”
— Coun, Ernie Crist.
“Perhaps we need a mora-
terium on. development in
Seymour as well as to preserve
Cove and Mountain forests.”
— Coun. Pam Goldsmith-Jones.
“I'm going to bald Pamela’
Goldsmith-Jones to her con-
ment about @ moratorium on
development: in| Seymour.
There sre still a number’ of
developments going on in that

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