RESIDENTS WORRY

Water concerns
spark protests

WATER RUNOFF concerns
prompted Coleman Street

residents to appear before -

council.

A handful of residents
arpeared before North Van-
couver District Council
Monday to protest plans to
rezone two lots for
development in the 1,200
block.

After hearing two formal
submissions and several in-
formal addresses, council
adjourned the hearing to
August 12 to allow time for
receipt of a report of
drainage problems in the
area. ,

A report from Patricia
Johnson said residents are
most concerned’ with
drainage and runoff pro-
blems.

“The details of the servic-
ing of the development, par-
ticularly as they pertain to
drainage, are of great con-
cern to us since very severe
and constant water problems
have been experienced in the
area for years, have been
worsening with gradual
development of the moun-
tainside, and have been con-
sistently dealt’ with - by the
District, not in the planning
Stage but after the fact,”
Johnson said.

Johnson detailed the’ ef-
fects of mud slide, inade-
quate drainage when cluster
housing was constructed and
inadequate drainage after
land was cleared. ©

Johnson asked for a geo-
technical survey to be under-
taken. A member of the
municipality’s engineering
department, she said, ‘‘sug-
gested that geo-technical
surveys are the most useful
in understanding the geology

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and subseauent water
behaviour of the land and in
designing effective drainage
systems.”"

“AS property owners we
cannot afford to rely upon
vague verbal assurances that
the servicing required by the
District will be adequate for
the site, particularly in light
of the fact that in the past
the District has failed to an-
ticipate and prevent
flooding. Our confidence
that our concerns will be
satisfied by staff after ap-
proval of this zoning change
without specific conditional
requirements is not great.
The developers will naturally
wish to develop as inexpen-
sively as possible and we fear
that staff, despite good in-
tentions, believes and will
decide that simple storm
drains will suffice,’ Johnson
said.

Another resident, J.D.C.
Rouse, told council rezoning
would have a big impact on
existing residences if proper
safeguards were not put into
place.

Rouse listed four specific
concerns: increased water
runoff, both surface and
undergrounds, and its-effect
on existing residences; con-
tinuing problems from water
Saturation of soil and
overflowing drainage
systems; . increased surface
and underground water
runoff following removal of
trees as well as greater soil
instability; and proposed
storm sewage and diver-
sionary ditching plans.

Rouse asked council who
would be financially respon-
sible for ‘‘paving, curbing,
adequate storm sewers and

diversionary ditching, water

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mains, underground wiring,
retaining walls on the north
and south side of Coleman,
stump and brush removal on
the south side of Col-
eman...It is our position that
these costs must be borne by
the developers and, we
estimate, they will be con-
siderable.”’

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