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LUMBERYARDS and condominiums sitting cheek by jowl
don’t make for the best of neighborhoods.

According to Norman’ Camp-
bell, vice-chairman of Brookwood
North Condominiums strata cor-
poration, hazardous seven-day-a-

week industrial activity combined
with residential usage on the same
street adds up to a dangerous mix.

Appearing before North Van-

WEST VANCOUVER

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couver District Council Monday,
Campbell, representing 64 con-
dominium owners from 1385

Draycott Road, said the safety of
the residents was being jeopardized
by the work going on at neighbor-
ing Woodstop Lumber Ltd., 1335
Draycott Road.

Two of the more elderly resideat
owners ‘‘narrowly escaped per-

Angry residents fed up with lumberyard

sonal Campbell told
council. .

“A pick-up truck reversed out
of the tumberyard and just missed
hitting one woman in one case,
and a forklift truck almost ran
over the other person in the other
case,"’ said Campbell.

Campbell’s tale of suburban liv-
ing gone sour painstakingly docu-
ments three years of resident com-
plaints concerning _Woodstop

Lumber.

injury,”’

ENFORCE BYLAW

Campbell repeated concerns
brought before council in 1984,
asking that council enforce the ap-
propriate bylaws to prohibit
Woodstop from using Draycott
Road as a parking, loading and
unloading area for lumber supply
trucks, .

Campbell said Woodstop is not.
operating as a simple retail store.
“It is an extension to a building
supply company, and therefore
isn’t permitted under C-2 zoning,’’:
he said. .

Campbell! said he has logged in
excess of 100 telephone calls to the
district over the past three years,
has phoned district staff once a
week for the past 18 months, and
has taken over 200 photographs
documenting various bylaw infrac-
tions,

“The lack of enforcement is
totally unacceptable,’ he said.
“For much of the time our street is
tatally impassable with forklifts
and lumber trucks obstructing the
roadway seven days a week.’’

Two letters Campbell says he
has from local realtors confirm
that the Brookwood North con-
dominium properties have been
devalued as a direct result of the
industrial activity on Draycott.

PROPERTY DEVALUED

“We've conservatively estimated
a loss of about $5,000 per preper-
ty,”” he claimed.

Said Mayor Marilyn Baker:
‘There's certainly a degree of em-
barrassment on our part if you’ve
been communicating for a year
and a half and there has been no
action. We weren't aware that
things were getting worse agaiz **

The complaint sparked renewed
debate on council over the issue of
adequate bylaw enforcement.

Council! moved to have the
municipal manager address the
problems as outlined by Campbell,
and ‘‘make every reaionable effort
to ensure bylaws ate enforced.”