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Dear Editor:

Your editorial on “Municipal
Harmony” and reunification sug-
gested that North Vancouver City
“broke away from the district in
1907.”

Most of the land which compris-
es the North Vancouver City was
acquired on Jan. 18, 1892, by the

.Nerth Vancouver Land — and
Improvement Company.

From the outset this property
was referred to as “the Townsite:” it
was always the intention of the
company to ccatrol and develop it,

and various plans were filed in the .

Land Registry Office . during: the
1890s and afterwards, toward that
end.

The formal separation of the city
from the municipality derived from
the fact that (in conformity with reg-
ulations of that time) ‘city status

_ could command a larger borrowing
power on the municipal bend mar-
ket.

The decision was made by
ratepayers, which is to say, actual
owners. as distinct from residents,

and the ownership of the property

was very largely in the hands of

non-residents. mostly people living
in Vancouver or other places.

Little thought appears to have
been given by them to the adminis-

tration of the “district” after the city

had been removed, largely perhups
because almost all development was
concentrated within the “townsite.”
Your readers might care to con-
template the duties and responsibil-
ities of municipal councils in 1907,
which have been displaced and
removed from their control in 1995,
some of which are:listed below.
' Over the intervening decades,
the opportunity of: ratepayers to

“determine the approva! or rejection
of capital expenditure has been

taken away by regional and provin-

‘cial administrative bodies.

Water, sewers, and hospitals are
now handied by regional district
staffs,

Schools are controlled by the
Department of Education (as our
elected school trustees will tell
you).

Controversial connection

: Dear Editor:
Re: Douglas E. Ford’s Mailbox
letter of Sunday, Sept, 24,
‘attended the Montroyal connec-
lor public hearing and your criticism
of Mayor Murray Dykeman’s so-
called “heavy-handedness™ is way
out of line.

The mayor and councillors sat .

: through. over four hours. of pro and
con positions on this issue and as far

as mind-numbing anecdotes go,
your aimless rambling was right up
there. The bottom line. in my opin-
ion, is that the connector should be
built as soon as possible.

It seems that.the majority of res-
idents who oppose the connector
live in the immediate area that will
be affected by construction.

There wis much whining about _

lost property value if the connector

ies eroded "

Highways are controlled by the
Department of Highways,

Tax Assessment is staffed and
controlled by the Provincial
Assessment Authority. Social
Services is a branch of the provin-
cial, government; public health,
ditto,

Policing is staffed by contract
and administered through the
provincial government.

All of these divisions of service
were administered aid controlled
by municipal councils by means of
money bylaws, voted on by the
property owners in 1907.

Property owners taday might
also wonder, when perhaps 90% of
those early duties and decisions
have been taken away from munici-
pal councils and staffs, why such a
large number of provincial, regional
and municipal employees, as well as
aldermen, is new required, and what
benefil the owners and their proper-
ty derive from the charges imposed
upon them,

AL. Lazenby |
North Vancouver

goes through.

Did the residents in this area not
know when they bought their prop-
erty that the connector might be
built? Please get your collective
heads out of the sand.

The connector should be built. It
will benefit the majority, The self-
ishness of those who oppose the
connector that live in the immediate
area is shameless.

Who's ot listening, Mr. Ford?
Gienn Foster
Novth Vancouver

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