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! HILLSIDE STUDENTS shunned classrooms and took to the field Wednesday to protest the fact that they must continue classes a week longer
than fetlow students at West Vancouver and Sentinel Secondary Schools. The protesters, approximately 150 in number, also took the action to
| draw attention to the need for more environment-friendly initiatives at the school. See story p. 2.

$130m LGH plan unveiled

HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATORS PROPOSE BLOCKING OFF

LIONS GATE Hospital (LGH) administrators will seek
approval Wednesday from the hospital's board of directors
to appiy for rezoning changes from North Vancouver City
to accommodate LGH's massive proposed $130 miliion

master plan.

If approved, the plan would sce
St. Andrews Avenue blocked off
between 13th and [Sih Streets and
the replacement of LGH’s activa-
tion building, which was opened
in 1928 as the North Vancouver
General Hospital and is consid-
ered by some to be a heritage site.

The hospital's beard of direc-
tors Will review the muster plan,
which has been three years in the
making, at its Wednesday
meeting.

The plan includes several addi-
tions and changes to the present
LGH site, including demolishing

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und replacing the top floors of the
hospital’s main building, adding
an underground parking loi and
building a new acute-care tower
on the present site of the activa-
tion building, which was the orig-
inal LGH building.

in total, the master plan calls
tor adding 400,000 square feet to
the LGH site at a cost of $136
million in 1990 dollars. Hf appros-
ed, the plan would take an

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Sheek

ST. ANDREWS, KNOCKING DOWN ACTIVATION BUILDING

estimated 10 years to complete.

Sixty per cent of the project's
funding would come from the
provincial health ministry; the
remaining 40 per cent would come
from the Greater Vancouver
Regional! District (GVRD).

LGH president Rote: Smith
admitted that the project's cast
will be a major issue for the three
North Shore councils and the
GVRD to address.

“W's a big ticket item.’ Sinith
told the News. ‘it's a loc of
money, and it is a key component
in the infrastructure of the North
Shore and Lower Mainland. By
the same token. it (mister plain)

competes with sewers, police, fire
and other items."*

The master plan
creating a ‘campus’ area with
trees, courtyards and flower
gardens in the area just east of the
main nursing tower, which opened
in 1961. The design would require
the closure of St. Andrews
Avenue and the demolition of the
activation and = current) North
Shore Union Board of Health
buildings.

Smith conceded that blocking
off St. Andrews could becoine a
contentious issue with both area
residents and North Vancouver
City council.

calls for

“That plan shows us closing off
St. Andrews and that's nice in
terms of a campus feel,"’ Smith
said. ‘‘It's safe to say a major
decision the city would have to
face is closing St. Andrews. The
other decision is rezoning. We
have to have the support of the
city to do what we want.”

Uli Haag, =GH vice-president
of human resources, said the main
part of the hospital's expansion
would be in the extended-care fa-
cility where the number of ex-
tended-care beds would be in-
creased from the current 294 to

See LGH
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