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country by laying a wreath at the war memorial in Victoria Park in North Vancouver. An Armistice Day
service will be held at the North Vancouver cenotaph starting at 10:45 a.m. today (Wednesday). The
Vancouver Naval Veterans Association will hold a memorial service at Sailor’s Point in Waterfront Park
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Original WV waterfront

proposal given approval

WEST VANCOUVER District Council went ahead and
approved a three-storey apartment building on waterfront
property that many hoped would become a new West Van-

couver park.

“I have deep regrets at the
failure of the land exchange which
would have created a new park
with a magnificent westerly view
from flat terrain that would have
been accessible to all — especially
the elderly,’’ Ald. Mark Sager told
the News.

The land exchange would have
seen the owners of the property to
the west of 22nd Street move their
proposed development to
municipal land at the foot cf the
street, leaving their original prop-
erty as park.

But the proposal necessitated
cooperation of the westerly prop-
erty owner, Canadian  Interna-
tional Properties Ltd., with the
property owner east of 22nd
Street, Hamid Harandi of Barak
Investment Corp.

The two developers would have
to have built a joint complex, in-
stead of two separate buildings.

“I suppose that the developer of
the lot on the east was able to
frustrate the plans for the ex-
change — plans which were made
prior to his purchasing the proper-
ty and were progressing well,”
Sager explained,

So Canadian {International
returned to their original plans to
build on the property to the west.

“This nas gone on in excess of
two years,’’ said Andrew Grant of
Canadian International. ‘‘We have
suffered out-of-pocket cost.’’

Grant argued against the sugges-
tion of taking his proposal for an
{l-suite apartment building to
public hearing.

“We're not asking for a rezon-
ing or any significant variances.
What we're asking for is a
development permit,’’ Grant said.

Grant was also adamantly
against the proposed linking (in a
public hearing) of his project with
the controversial proposal on the
east side of 22nd Street. which
does require a rezoning from four
to 11 suites.

“Put an end to this nightmare
we've been through,’’ he added.

By MAUREEN CURTIS
Contributing Writer

Deciding to grant the develop-
ment permit, council then labored
over the inclusion of landscaping
details. Municipal manager Terry
Lester warned that the plan in-
cluded existing and future trees
situated on the municipally-owned
boulevard.

Ald. David Finlay was concern-
ed shat the trees might prevent the
opening up of the street for traffic
and parking — traffic and parking
needed to accommodate the
seawall.

WEST Vancouver

Ald.
Sager...‘‘deep regrets.’’

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“Are we putting ourselves in a
box?”’ Finlay asked.

“The trees noted here are our
trees and we can chop them off
any time we want ... though I hope
we save them ... It’s a magnificent
asset to have beautiful high trees in
an apartment zone. To remove
them would destroy the street,’
said Ald. Mark Sager.

The development permit was fi-
nally approved subject to input on
the landscaping plan from the Ad-
visory Design Panel and the Parks
and Engineering departments.