LAND UP FOR SALE IN 1983

Ambleside has high price tag

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to the Squamish band, the park
was offered for sale to West Van-
couver,

Williams represented the pro-
vincial government during those
negotiations.

“West Vancouver could have
purchased it, but it was a question
of money,” he said. ‘ht would
have required some sensitive
negotiations."

WEST VANCOUVER Mayor
Derrick Humphreys....“°We're a
waterfront criented community,
but when you look at that coastline
you realize there’s no. a lot of

Joe said while the band never
pul a price on the land, he said it
was a ‘drastic turn af evenis” for
the band to consider selling the 26
acres, because the bund’. aim all
aleng was to recover all lands
taken from them.

The band’s lawyer Harry Slade
estimated the current market value
for each acre of Ambleside proper-
ty would be half a million dollars.

He said if the band rented to
commercial developers. who plan-
ned to manage the land to its best
use, a yearly rent in excess of
$45,000 per acre would not be un-
reasonable.

“Bur of course i's a different
matter when you're renting if out
for park use,”* he said.

Steve Nicholls, director of Plan-
ning and Development for West
Vancouver, agreed parkland
should be less vostly than if the
land was commercially developed,
adding the rent that is being sought
by the band is not practical.

He said while the seawalk, which
is partly on reserve land, and the
Pitch. and Putt field are ‘ta
valuable part of the overall (park)
package, the district loses money

on it every year."”

“It costs us over $100,000 a year
to run that end of the park,’’ he

Nicholls said the question of
purchasing the land is not realistic,
because the band will ask for a
price comparable to commercially
developed Jand.

“PT don't know where the two
will meet,”" he said.

“Yes it would be a very valuable
addition to the parkland, but it's a
matter of at what cost?"’

SQUAMISH BAND Chief Philip
Joe...'‘Personally, | think West
Vancouver wants the land for
cheap, but we're not the provincial
government — we can’t afford to
subsidize them.”*

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