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March 5, 1989 News 985-2131

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overpass

THE LONG-delayed project to build an overpass at Lons-
dale Avenue and the Upper Levels Highway is scheduled to

| FOUR-YEAR-OLD Courteney Campbell gets a hand picking herself up from
S Courteney Nicois, 12, during a recent Tiny Tots skating lesson at Karen Magnussen

Arena. The lessons enable children to become more confident on skates.

get under way next month.

North Vancouver-Capilano
MLA Angus Ree announced Fri-
day that tenders will be called later
this month to begin construction
on the $22-million interchange
based on final budget approval.
The project has pre-budget clear-
ance,

“SAC ast," Ree said. ‘' I feel like
i's my birthday. It's been a long
time coming since it was first pro-
posed in the ‘60s. I’m very pleas-

The 2Ya-year project, he said,
should begin in April, while the
final design of the Westview Drive
highway overpass should be com-
pleted later this year.

According to the final design of
the Lonsdale overpass, the high-
way will dip under the street to
permit free highway traffic flow,
and a bridge will be built at Lons-
dale with on-off ramps at either
end.

By TIMOTHY RENSHAW
News Reporter

The project's four-stage con-
struction will maintain two lanes
of traffic in both directions at all
times.

Announcement of a $30-million
project to build highway over-
passes at Lonsdale Avenue and
Westview Drive was originally
made in October 1988 by Ree and
then-highways minister Alex
Fraser. Construction was sched-
uled to begin in carly 1986. But
funds for the project have not been
included in any provincial budget
since.

Ree said completion of both
overpasses is vital to the fall-1991
opening of the $85-million Cassiar
Connector that will be built be-
tween the south end of the Second
Narrows Bridge and the Trans-
Canada Highway.

Supreme Court backs
City propane bylaw

A B.C. Supreme Court decision has upheld two North
Vancouver City bylaws that prohibit the storage and sale of
propane within the municipality, and reinforced a
municipality’s right to decide where propane installations

can be located.

The Propane Gas Association of
Canada Inc. (PGACI) had peti-
tioned the court to overturn the
bylaws on the grounds that they
conflicted with the provincial Gas
Safety Act’s already-comp-
rehensive safety regulations, and
consequently interfered with the
tights of provincially-approved
propane dealers to sell their pro-
duct within the municipality.

But, in dismissing the petition
and awarding costs to the city, Mr.
Justice B.D. MacDonald ruled
Wednesday that, while the Gas Act
contains ‘‘extremely detailed re-
quirements for propane equipment
and its inspection as well as for the
storage, handling ant use of pro-

By TIMOTHY RENSHAW
News Reporter

pane....’’, the act itseif deals with
‘*how propane installations are to
be constructed. !t remains to the
municipality to determine where.”

He added that a propane in-
stallation permit issued by the Gas
Safety Branch is similar to a
building permit in that ‘the holder
of both must still comply with
municipal zoning regulations.”'

The city adopted its Propane
Storage and Dangerous Goods
bylaws on Oct. 11 1988, two years
after the Sept. 25, 1986 explosion

See Court