Pub applicants ‘naive’

NEIGHBORHOOD PUB applicants should do
more research before rushing forward with
“naive” proposals, Alderman Elko Kroon said at

last week's
meeting.

By TERR Y LAVENDER

Kroon said council was
running the danger of
“looking like fools” to the
provincial government by
automatically giving all
applications for neigh-
borhood pubs a green light
to make their pitch to the
provincial licensing
authority.

The alderman made his
comments after council
heard presentatons from
two pub hopefuls, both of
whom sought council's
blessing in their quest.

Both applications — from
Bayview Delicatessen , at
Lonsdale and 15th, and
Whispers Cabaret at 1421
Lonsdale — had = major
technical problems, Kroon
said.

One of those problems
was with parking. at a
premium in that commercial
section of Lonsdale Avenue.
Karl Grohs of Bayview
Delicatessen was not
familiar with the = City’s
parking regulations or its
proposed pohcy to require
one parking space for every
125 square feet of licensed
area for each neighborhood
pub. He said he did not want
to provide much parking as

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he did not want people to
drink and drive.

The Whispers
representatives were told
that if their pub application
goes through they will have
to get their zoning changed.
which would negate their
present parking
arrangement. They said they
were investigating alterna-
uve parking arrangements.

Council voted to inform
the provincial Liquor
Control and _ Licensing
Branch that it would not
interfere on behalf of any
pub applicant, and to send
the branch copies of
council's guidelines and
bylaws regarding pubs.

Those guidelines call for

pubs only in the = City’s
commercial zones, and
require a zoning change

before any pub can proceed.

Alderman Stella Jo Dean
dissociated herself from
those guidelines because she
said they encourage a pro-
liferanon of pubs in the
commercial zones.

“People just don't know
when to stop drnking,” she
said, dismissing the idea that
City residents would use the
pubs only for social
dnoaking. North Vancouver
ciuzens are “not social
drinkers,” Dean said.

However, she said she
would rather see a pub at
Whispers than the present
cabaret, because of the
problems with noise and late

hours associated with
Whispers.
Whispers’ presentation

was a follow-up to a letter
they sent council last month
after the province rejected
their application for pre-site
clearance for a pub.
Whispers is appealing the
rejection and wanted
council’s active support for
the appeal.

The other pub hopeful at
last week's meeting, Karl
Grohs, said he wanted to
convert to a pub because of
the overabundance of
restaurants on Lonsdale.

With “95 restaurants in 25
blocks” he cannot make a
living anymore, he told
council. The City needs
more pubs, more en-
tertainment and _ fewer
restaurants, Grohs said.

Grohs' pub_ proposal
brings to three the number
of pubs planned for Lonsdale
between 14th and = U5th
Streets. The other hopeful is
Picasso's Restaurant which
wants to build a pub right
beside Whispers, at 1423
Lonsdale.

Provincial pre-site clear-
ance — the necessary first
step towards a neighborhood
pub — has been given for
two pubs in the City in the
past several months. Both
are in the lower Lonsdale
area, on the west and east

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