MARCH 25, 1998 — sit Lights — | ness rea Classifieds t Crossword Food North Shore Aleri | Sports Table Ropaing North Shore Free Press Lia. Publisher Pete: Soech, 1139 Lonsdale Avenue, North Vancouver 5 V7M 2a Canachan Purkcanons Mak Saks Product Agreement No 0687233 52 Pages CMHC views options Anna Marie D’Angelo News Reporter dangelo@nsnews.com A spokesman for Canada Housing and Mortgage Corporation (CMHC) voiced dis- appointment about losing a land-use court case against North Vancouver District. “We are obviously disap- pointed in the decision, bur bevond that we have no com- ment, We haven’ had the oppor- runity to even read it,” said the federal Crown — corporation’s Lorne Finley on ‘Tuesday trom Orrawa, Finley soe 30 ooo 17 cco &3 said CMHC will judge's deciston yee On a course of See GUARD pane 4 NVD wins Martin Millerchip News Reporter mriller@nsnews.com NORTH Vancouver District has won a major court battle with Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) over the rezoning of lands in the Northlands and Mountain Forest areas of Seymour. A thr ar-old dispute that saw a federal agency suc a municipal government with Taxpayer money ina Tax-support- ead justice system was resohked Monday when Madam Justice Mary A. Humphries released her reasons tor judgment in favor Block watch p17 Commercial Avenues visits Marine Drive eae poem tpt NA LM NEI TOE By design p23 Home & Garden special feature Public safety, private enterprise square off The truck Stops here p3 Lengthy court battie over municipal rezoning of fed land funded by taxpayers of the district. The five day, carly January hearing in the B.C. Supreme Court will li ost the municipality approximately The court judgment erants leave to the district to apply tor costs that will cover only about one dird of the amount, CMHC has 30 days to appeal the decision, an action that the district ts anticipating. The argument over the district's right tee rezone the hands in question began in 1995 when the municipality responded taa huge groundswell of grassroots opposition (o develop $1.00 NEWS photo Mike Waketield HAPPY Seymour area residents include Coun. Trevor Carolan (foreground,) Dave Sadler (left background,) Eric Andersen, Cas Bohiken, Sheila Norris, Julie Hollyer (with baby daughter, Kayley), Alf Cockle, Allan Orr and Coun. Lisa Muri. The group were among hundreds of residents opposed to development in Mountain Forest. A court decision this week upheld anti-deveiopment bylaws. prest f ment of the forested slopes above both Deep Cove and the Northhinds golf course site. Rezoning bylaws for Cove and Mountain Forest: were adopted on Oct. 23 of that dedicating tand that had been targeted for future housing as Parks, reanian and Open Space (PRO) ‘he Mouresin Forest bylaws attested the upper portions of approximately 640 acres of forested Jand thar CMEC had acquired from the Department of National Defence in 1968 for the nominal sum of ST. Phe same laid had been expropriated trom the district by Ottawa in 1928 for $25,000. In 1895, the district, enacted the so-called Northlands bylaws to rezone to PRO portions of CALC fand net cap tured by the Mountain Forest byliws. See OME patae S