@ - Wednesday, January 29, 1997 — North Shore News

me height
rules extended

NVD extends
restrictions
eastwards

By Martin Millerchip
Contributing Writer

SINGLE-FAMILY
homes east of Lynn
Creek will now be sub-
ject to the same build-
ing height restrictions
that presently apply to
the western half of
North Vancouver
District.

Council voted six to one in
favor of Bylaw 6934 Monday
despite largely negative reac-
tion to the = regulations
expressed at the public hear-
ing last week.

The new bylaw will allow
additions, alterations and
reconstruction of existing
dwellings provided the new
roof and cave height does not
exceed the existing height.

If it does, the applicant will
be required to obtain a devel-
opment variance permit that
will ultimately be vored on by
council,
Variance.

Neighborhood opinion is
one factor that council con-
siders when voting on vari-
ance applications.

The new regulations are
intended to prevent the
destruction of neighborhood
character by overbuilding and
are considered a temporary
measure until such time as
each neighborhood adopts its
own zoning restrictions.

The process was developed
in 1994 for the western por-
tion of the district as one way
to control the proliferation of
so-called “monster homes.”

_ Seymour opponents to
Bylaw 6934 say it will tie sim-
ple renovations in red tape for
up to 12 weeks and that the

“temporary” bylaw will be in —

place for 10 years cr more.
A large classified advertise-

not the Board of |

ment in Sunday's North Shore
News opposing the byt

paid for by one property owner
who hopes to rebuild an older
Deep Cove home.

Planning staff originally
projected completing three
neighborhood plans a year, but
in two years and seven months
only six have been completed.

Eighteen more remain west of

Lynn Creek and to this back-
log will be added 15 Seymour
neighborhoods.

Coun, Janice Harris sug-
gested extending the restric-
tions into the Seymour area
was premature and would
“create an even greater back-
log of development applica-
tions than we have at the
moment.”

Coun. Glenys Deering-
Rabb also expressed concerns

with the workability of the
bylaw but said the older areas
of — Seymour (Blue ridge,
Seymour HH » Deep
Cove, Cove itf and
Dollarton} deserve some pro-
techon.

But Deer
endment d
limit the effects of Bylaw
693+ to these areas failed in a
4-3 vote, leaving Harris as the
only remaining oppositio

“So what if it takes five
years (to get a neighborhood
plan),” said Coun. Ernie
Crist. *} am concerned about
retaining the general character
of the neighborhoods.”

Coun. Trevor Carolan
agreed, arguing that a sense of
community livability rests
chiefly on the maintenance of
neighborhood harmony.

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