ESTIMATED 1,200 OFF-STREET

SHORTFALL IN

PARKING PAUCITY in the
Lower Lonsdale area has mer-
chants scrambling to develop their
own solutions to the chronic park-
ing stall shortfall.

ICHAEL BECKER
News Reparter

The Lower Lonsdale Merchants
Association signed an agreement
recently allowing some of its
members access to 80 spaces own-
ed by Versatile Pacific Shipyards
Inc. in the shipyard’s Esplanade
parking lot.

As of March 1, association
members will be able to rent the
spots and in turn help relieve park-
ing pressures in the area.

Said Lower Lonsdale
businessman Ken Bassam,‘*When
the mayor asks, ‘What are you do-
ing about it,’ we can demonstrate
what we’re doing. There should be
700 or 800 parking spaces there to
service the neighborhood right
now. When you task them on this
they say, ‘Well who’s going to pay
for it?’ Do a local improvement
assessment — what the hell.”’

Bassam, who asked North Van-
couver City Council in January to

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L. LONSDALE

take immediate action on address-
ing an estimated 1,200 off-street
parking space shortfall, advocates
the construction of a large multi-
level parking facility just west of
the pedestrian overpass connecting
the ICBC complex with the north
side of Esplanade.

The city-owned property is cur-
renfly a street-level parking lot.

But said Derwyn Owen, city
director of purchasing and proper-
ty services, ‘‘There is still sufficient
land being developed right now
and available for development so
that the solution can be integrated
with the developing lands and
redeveloped lands in Lower Lons-
dale. It’s not as if we're in the
downtown core and it’s completely
developed and we still have a
(parking) deficit. We need to ad-
dress the problem both from a
long-term and_= short-term in-
tegrated approach.”’

But said Bassam, ‘They haven’t

NEWS photo Neil Lucente

MODEL SHIPYARD owner Ken Bassam encourages Stella Dosit and Doug Arcand to sign a petition which

addressed a solution to the existing demands North Vancouver City act to solve the chronic parking shortage in the Lower Lonsdale area. The

shortfall. The new theatre complex
at the corner of Chesterfield and
Esplanade has gone ahead and and
what the city did is accept $250,000
in lieu of parking.”’

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