NM» eg a) OUTRAGE FELT COVER PLAN Locals demand development slowdown in NV CLOSE TO 1,000 North Shore residents jammed into Balmoral Junior Secondary School’s gym Tuesday to de- mand that North Vancouver officials slow down develop- ment.in the municipality. The public hearing was called to discuss the district’s new Official Community Plan (OCP) and pro- vided an opportunity for residents to address community-wide plan- ning objectives. The OCP, currently before staff and council, incorporates eight area Official Community Plans adopted since 1979. North Van- couver District Mayor Marilyn Baker termed the plans, ‘‘broad- brush land-use designations.”’ The two-tier OCP system is unique in the region and, accord- ing to municipal planner Kai a on woe tha oe E ven the mention of the park being destroyed makes me mad. Rather than destroying the park, please give us more trails.”’ Grade 5 student Eric Patterson Kreuchen, ‘“‘The process consists of the community voicing its ideal position and council and staff working to temper this. We have to set a range of base guidelines. The district will change and we have to harness that change."’ But immediate concern for the natural environment was upper- most on the minds of most gathered at the meeting. A district proposal to plant 1,900 homes in the inter-river wilderness area be- tween Lynn Creek and Seymour River drew most of the outrage from both young and old. Said 10-year-old Mare Low, speaking on behalf of the 28 stu- dents of a Grade 4 and 5 French Immersion class at Ross Road Elementary School in North Van- couver, ‘We feel that such a de- velopment would spoil the en- vironment of the park for future generations. “My grandfather often takes me on picnics up to Lynn Canyon Park to the very area that houses are supposed to be built. I, as a 10-year-old, would like to think that one day I could grow up to be a grandfather and take my own grandchildren on outings there. You as adults and politicians have -..23 .- 28 1 Classified Ads....... Doug Collins Editorial Page.......... 6 Heme & Garden.........13° Mailbox .... .. 7 What's Going On........22 WEATHER Friday and Saturday, sunny. Highs near 20°C. Second Class Registration Number 3885 By MICHAEL BECKER News Reporter many chances to change our future. We as students and children ask you to take this op- portunity tp preserve our future — make Lynn Canyon a park. Give your children something to remember you by.’’ Eric Patter- son, a fellow Grade 5 French Im- mersion student at the school, echoed the sentiments of his school Inate. ‘I have lived here,’’ he said, “since | was nine months old. We have a dog and my mom and I walk her in the park ali the time. The scenery there 1s too nice to destroy. The scenery from the suspension bridge to the falls is beautiful. It makes you want to stay there forever. Even the men- tion of the park being destroyed makes me mad. Rather than destroying the park, please give us more trails.” Former lieutenant-governor Henry Beli-Irving, chairman of the Seymour angling committee and a member of the Seymour Valley advisory committee to the GVRD, also appealed for a halt to future residential development in the in- ter-river area. Said Bell-Irving, ‘‘The wilderness that we're taiking about, Seymour and valley and Seymour to Lynn, is close to and accessible to a great and growing metropolis, which makes it of stupendous value. And we've in- herited this and we have a mandate to hold it for our grandchildren and theirs on down. I’ve been told it’s impossible — nothing's im- possible.’’ David Blacoe, coordinator for the committee to Save Lynn Can- yon Park, estimated as many as 200,000 people visit the Lynn Canyon Park area annually. In the past five weeks the com- mittee has collected 8,802 signatures supporting its objec- tives. The signatures represent park visitors from across Canada throughout the U.S. and around the worid. The public hearing on the OCP is scheduled to continue June 13 at Balmoral schoo! starting at 7:30 p.m. 7 3 - Friday, June 2, 1989 - North Shore News PADDLE-WHEELERS big and small were just a small part of the Vancouver Port Corp.’s Port Day ’89 last Sunday. The event, based for the second year running at North Vancouver City’s Waterfront Park, featured a wide range of displays, demonstrations, open houses and tours designed to give the public an educational and entertaining look at the various industries and services that make up Canada’s largest port. Colin Gardner, 10, Corinne Gardner, 13, and Andrea Atkins, 12, (left to right, above) scrutinize a scale model of a remote-control paddle-wheeler demonstrated by the Westcoast Model Boat Club. A full-size paddle-wheeler (below) pulls away from Waterfront Park. RCMP investigates gun shot on Indian Arm From page 1 But the move will leave original owner Hopkins without a_ valid federal aquaculture permit and without the previous legal non- - conforming commercial use per- mitted at his property. The shot was fired Tuesday after Klaus \rey, a friend of Hopkins, became frustrated when Malamas continued diving under his sailboat, which Krey had moored in front of the Hopkins property. Shaw, who was tending Malamas from a dock while his boss was scuba diving for submerged fish farm equipment, maintains that Krey had pointed the rifle at him after Krey had made repeated requests for Majamas to stop diving under his boat. Krey, Shaw said, then fired at Malamas’s diving bubbles. But Krey denied that he had pointed the weapon at anyone and said the rifle had discharged ac- cidently. Krey added that he immediately notified police once the rifle had discharged. Hopkins and Krey, who subse- quently left for Deep Cove in a small boat, were pursued by Ports Canada Police, who had been call- ed by Strato Malamas, Jim Malamas’s brother. But Hopkins said he and Krey had started for Deep Cove because they had been instructed to meet police there. The investigation into the inci- dent should be completed by next week, Insp. Roseberry said. Indian Arm ratepayers to meet THE INDIAN Arm Ratepayers Association (IARA) has scheduled a Saturday, June 3 meeting starting at 10 a.m. at the Raven Inn Neighborhood Pub, 1060 Deep Cove Rd., North Vancouver, to discuss a wide range of issues affecting the Indian Arm environment. Association president Detlef Schmidt said area residents have become increasingly concerned over the impact on Indian Arm from logging, fish farming, area development and commercial crab fishing. The possibility of the Vancouver Island natural gas pipeline being routed through Indian Arm will also be discussed. “Indian Arm is one of the closest places to Vancouver that remains relatively unspoiled,’’ he : id, “but that is changing rapid- y.”” Schmidt said the Vancouver Port Corp. (VPC), which has jurisdiction over Indian Arm as a waterway, ‘‘sees things differently. They seem to want industrial and residential development. We have difficulty with that.”’ VPC is currently completing a recreation inventory of Indian Arm that includes an environmen- tal impact study of such commer- cial uses as fish farms on the slow-flushing Indian Arm waters. Schmidt said logging operations in various areas of Indian Arm have resulted in ‘‘some real disasters.’” Commercial crab fishing in the area, he said, has virtually ex- hausted Indian Arm crab stocks. IARA has a current membership of approximately 85, but Schmidt said that number could mushroom to 200 after the meeting. For more information call Schmidt at 290-3503.