WEATHER: Mainly cloudy with a few showers Friday and Saturday. Sunny periods Saturday. HOMES: 15 Perched at the top cf North Vancouver, today’s Feature Home 3 - Friday, September 13, 1985 ~ North Shore News Tide Table For Pt. Atkinson Friday Saturday 14 ‘DINING: 62 is a Bavarian fantasy. New Italian restaurant exudes hospitality — the food's gocd, too. Sunday 8 Time 0415 1118 1815 2400 0515 1165 1840 2435 0610 1235 1905 art 12.7 Entertainment Lifestyles Mailbox ynn Valiey residents demanding rec centre LYNN VALLEY Hall e choed with thunderous applause Tuesday night as 200 Lynu Valley resi- dents called for a full recreation facility. The capacity group listen- ed to recreation consultant Kevan Tisshaw of Arete Projects Ltd. review prelim- inary results of the Lynn Valley Recreation Study and then spoke their minds about the proposed new facility. Tisshaw, hired by the North Vancouver Recreation Commission this spring, presented three options be- fore listening to residents’ Teponses. The main issues centred on what should be included in the proposed facility, where that structure should be located and how it could help relieve the long standing youth problem in the Valley. Numerous speakers, and much applause, made it clear. only a full recreation facili- ty, with pool, would be ac- ceptable to the majority of residents. However, not everyone was clear what that would include or how much it would cost. The district’s master plan makes provisions for a $1.5 million facility in the Lynn Vailey area but this would not cover a complete facility with a pool. But Lynn Valley Residents Association spokesman Mike Edwards said the capital cost should be covered by land sales rather than through taxes. LOCATION UNKNOWN The biggest disagreement was where to locate the new facility. . Tisshaw’s first option proposed the facility be built on the present Lynn Valley Hall site. Because of space con- straints, this would involve the expense of moving the present fiela and construc- ting underground parking, Tisshaw said. While expensive, this op- tion would retain Lynn Valiey Park as the focal point of the community. Locating the new facility By ROSS MEEK at the Karen Magnussen Arena was the second op- tion. Plenty of available land and sharing of administra- tion costs were two major advantages of this choice. Option three was a com- bination of the first two. It involved building a smail fa- cility at Lynn Valley Park and constructing a medium sized facility at Karen Magnussen. The two buildings would provide easy access to residents from both north and south Lynn Valley and be safer for children. Both buildings, however, would be smaller than either of the other two options. A strong contingent from the Lynn Valley Residents Association advocated keep- ing the facility at Lynn Valley Park because ‘it is the community’s traditional focal point. RESIDENTS SPLIT But others were keen to see the facility located at Karen Magnussen, since it would offer easier access to seniors, create less conges- tion, and disturb few people during construction. Residents poled in Tisshaw’s study. were split almost evenly between the two sites with little support for option three. After the residents spent over an hour arguing about which location was best one man pointed out that loca- tion wasn’t as important as finding a place for the Valey’s youth. Most agreed supplying the youth with a meeting place was paramount. A spokesman for the Lynn Valley Coffee Club, a recently organized youth group, said they presently had to fight dog training and aerobic classes for time in the hall. It didn’t. matter which location was chosen as long as they could have a place to gather and socialize. ALDERMEN ATTENDED District Aldermen Murray Dykeman, Mary Segal, Craig Clark and Ernie Crist showed up for the meeting. Each was asked to com- ment. All four were im- pressed with the turn out and said they were there to listen. Crist added that as long as the community had a com- mitment to the project the money could be found. Tisshaw will use the input gleaned from the meeting, together with his survey ma- terial, to recommend a loca- tion and type of facility to the North Vancouver Recre- ation Commission in early October. They, in turn, will make recommendation to district council. The earliest construction could begin is next fall. A CAPACITY crowd packed Lynn Valley Hall Tuesday night to discuss a proposed new recreation facility. Below, consultant Kevan Tisshaw explains the possible options be- fore residents argue about the location and type of recreation centre they want. Right, one resident's face shows the concern and commitment of Lynn Valley residents towards securing the new facility. NEWS photos *ike Wakeficid