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January 31, 1982

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THE REBIRTH OF LOWER LONSDALE

NORTH VANCOUVER City’s

shabby and

rundown Lower Lonsdale area appears destined
to be transformed into the showpiece of the

municipality.

This is the dream of City
Alderman Gary Payne, who
predicts the location would
become a high class area
with soaring property values,
in a project being considered
jointly by City council and
the provincial government.

The proposal would likely
incorporate a_ delicate
combination of revitalization

and redevelopment —
enhancing historic features
of the main street, while
developing the areas on each
side.

Payne calls the provincial
government's revitalization
program which would be
administered by the
municipality “probably the
most exciting change which

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will take place on the North
Shore in the _ forseeable
future.”

The first step towards his
dream was taken at a
meeting Tuesday, when

By CHRIS LLOYD

merchants showed interest
in sprucing up businesses on
the stretch of Lonsdale
below Fourth Street.

Payne, who is chairman of
the City’s Downtown
Revitalization Committee,

estimates that of the 70
people present about 50
were eligible to participate
and that 30 were in favor.

He has asked those
merchants to survey stores in
the area and get an accurate
commitment of how many
are in favor, before City
spends $10,000 on hiring a
consultant.

The government program,
which is designed to put new
life into older central cores
of communities, funds 20 per
cent of the expense of
upgrading ground level

ABBINESS
PIECE

ALD. GARY PAYNE

facades, up to a maximum of
$60 per foot grant.
It will also loan up to
$375,000 at a_ favorable
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GOVERNMENT VISITORS
members of the Cabinet Commitice on Economic Development, who

toured the Stanley Drug company and Allied Shipyards. Pictured at the
drug manufacturers are . Forests

to North Vancouver

Minister

Tuesday were

Tom Watcriand in

Heinrich,

the Bryant.

foreground and behind him left to right are Stanley Drags President Les

Strike, Agriculture and Food Minister James Hewitt, Labor Minister Jack
Energy and Mines Chairman Bob McClelland, Tourism
Minister Pat Jordan and Stanley Drugs Manufacturing Manager Cart

(Elsworth Dickson photo)

here’s still time to save Stoker Farm: p. A3

THE VOICE OF NORTH AND WEST VANCOUVE

Blanket pieas
by councils

Tax
victims
get day
in court
Monday

By NEWS STAFF

HARD-PRESSED tax-
payers in West
Vancouver and North
Vancouver District get
their day in court
tomorrow (Monday,
February 1) —
regardless of whether
or not they filed in-
dividual appeals against
skyrocketing 1982
property assessments.

Blanket appeals lodged
only two weeks ago by the
two municipalities on behalf
of all property owners on
their rolls have galvanized
the B.C. Assessment
Authority into fast action:

Courts of revision will sit
Monday in West and North
Vancouver to consider the
municipal claims for across-
the-board assessment
reduction

In West Van the court will
be held in the municipal
council chamber, 750-17th

CONTINUED ON PAGE A4

SUNDAY

cloudy colder

MONDAY

scattered showers