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October 2, 1985 News 985-2131

[Canada’s Number One
Suburban Newspaper

A 180 FOOT condominium proposed for West Van-
couver brought local residents out to protest ‘‘West
Vancouver’s creeping concrete curtain of high-rise

dwellings.”

The 20-storey project pro-
posed for 2203 Bellevue
Avenue by Carr Holland
Corporation got the negative

_ reviews at a public meeting

held Monday by West Van-
couver Council.

But while the focus of the
complaints from the locals

| By BILL BELL |

centred around the height of
the building blocking their
views, council’s biggest con-
cern was over the potential
problems due to a lack of
visitor parking.

Classified 986-6222 Circulation 986-1337 44 pages 25¢

But the project’s architect
Paul Berthon told council his
company was willing to make
the necessary changes to meet
council’s objections to the lack
of parking for visitors.

Resident Geoffrey
Rowlands told council that
the project was ‘‘not only ug-
ly, but also ruins the spec-
tacular views and amenity for
the vast majority of residents
who live on the mountainside
of this ‘sylvan’ settiug.’’

~ NEWS photo Mike -Wakerieta

HAPPY REUNION of rescuer. rand rescues. News carrier Kate Dodd, 13, poses with Cameron Duff beside the West Van-
j<couver pool into which the two and:a half-year-old toddler slipped Friday afternoon. Dodd, who was delivering
7 newspapers, when she saw. the young boy fall, rushed to his rescue and pulled him from the pool.

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THE QUICK-WITTED action of .2 13-year-old

North Shore News. carrier'saved a West Van-
couver toddler from drowning Friday.

Kate Dodd, a West Van-
couver Senior Secondary .

school student, was riding
her bicycle along her paper
route in the Caulfeild area of
West Vancouver after school
Friday when she heard a
splash.

“I was coming up the
driveway of this house and I
saw him fall into the pool,”’
Dodd said, recalting the in-
cident. ‘‘He was bobbing up
and down. He looked very
young and for sure it didn’t
look like he could swim.”’

Cameron Duff, who will
be three years old in
December, had wandered in-
to the backyard of his

grandmother's house to play —

with his family’s: two: great

'. Danes. Somewhere along the
line he had tripped and fall-

en into the:deep end:of the

yard’s ice-cold 40-foot pool.
“My little guy was with us

one minute and the next

thing I knew he was ‘gone,”’
said Cameron’s father, .Ty:

Duff. ‘‘Thank God for that
young girl and thank God
she got him ‘out. I’m scared
to think of what might have
happened if’she hadn’t been’
there.”’

Duff, who said his young
family is temporarily living

_at the West Vancouver home

|: By TIMOTHY RENSHAW | i

[
of ‘his mmothes-in-law after

selling their home.in Van-
‘couver, explained that he

and his wife were in ‘the

- basement of the Rockridge

Road house, with Canieron,
doing some household clean-
ing. The door ieading to the
backyard had been left open.
Everything happened, he
said, in a matter of minutes.
Duff added that his son

- had previously been enrolled

in rudimentary swimming
classes, ‘‘but that water is
pretty cold. 1 doubt if he
would ‘have lasted long.’

Dodd said that she didn’t
have time ‘to think, twice, ‘I
was really scared, but I
could see he was in trouble. I

‘don’t know, I just: ran into

the yard and “pulled him. :

ut. .
Almost before he knew +t

‘Cameron was gone, Duff
. $aid his brother-in-law, who

had been | working in the
garage of the house, ' was: fi
yelling his name. Duffs. |
brother-in-law arrived'on the
scene soon after; Dodd. He
brought his. dripping wet and

’ frightened nephew through

See Carrier
Page 10 |

“It is a waste for council to
attempt to limit the height of
trees in the area when the
views are limited to the sides
of multi-storey apartments,”’
Rowlands told council in a
letter dated September. 28.

Another resident, Ralph
Carder pointed out that
Mayor Derrick Humphreys
had, in a recent election pam-
phiet, ‘expressed your op-
position to further high rise
development.”’

“In the 20 years we
have been living at this ad-
dress (2253 Lawson Ave.) we
have been forced to witness a
solid wall of high rise
buildings sweep across our
waterfront, obliterating our
water view,’’ Carder said.

Humphreys did tell the
residents that it was a coun-
cil’s decision 20 years ago
that zoned the property for
high rise. In 1980 Humphreys
tried to downzone the pro-

V residents fight ‘concrete curtain’

perty, but council voted him
down.

The building includes 51
units in the tower, a two-
storey underground parking
lot and five townhouse units
to be built above the parking
structure.

Council decided to adjourn
the public meeting until next
week so that various council
committees could jock at the
proposed changes.