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Newsstand Price S0¢ November 2, 1983

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THURSDAY
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Newsroom 985-2131 Classified 986-6222

TO KEEP PLAN FUNCTION

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Regional
power would

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be limited
ALD. DAVID Finlay is
after West Vancouver
municipal council to cir-
cumvent provincial
goverment legislation

and continue’ with
regional planning.

By JOANNE McDONAI

Faced with a Dec. 31,
1983, end to funding for
regional district planning
functions, Finlay has sug-
gested council join others in
the region in establishing a
regional planning
association.

He madc his pitch to alder-
man Monday night, calling
the provincial government's
decision ‘‘a retrograde step’’.

Finlay, West Vancouver's
representative on the
GVRD’s planning committee
for the past four years, told
council wo owas ‘‘aaive of the
provincial government to
think that neighboring
mumecpahucs will get along
side by side "’

“Il can understand = the
Minister being less than hap
py with Regional District
planning, but that’s because
they have to deal with wide
open spaces,”’ Finlay told the
North Shore News in the in-
terview following Monday's
council meeting "But on the
lower mainland. every

mumapalty has a planner
These plannans can't just go
ahead and plan when there
are other muntipahities right
on ther doorsteps 7

In oa Ghusment sent to
members oof the CGVWVRED.
chairman Dron Ross asks cach
council to comsader cniccing
mito an agreement undcr Sect
TIO (2) of Ue Miusntcipal Act
to undertake the continua
hon of the activities pecsemthy
provided: by the regional
Planning fuoction manus the
regulatory tole

Costs. of the  peogpsaen
would be divided among par
Voc tpraatinng ereaassse spralatres ane

cording bo assessments

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TAKE EQUAL parts of fall, cooler weather and a little wind and what do you get? Parks and yards.
filled with colorful leaves that crunch underfoot and make delightful scenes, Add two small children —+ >
such as sister Amanda and Bonnie Farquhar — and you have all the makings of fall fun. The two were
found by a News photographer in the Dundarave Pier area of Went Vancouver.

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