4- Sunday, February 16, 1997

— North Shore News

NV Catholic school meeting set

By lan Noble

News Reporter

A school proposed for
a Catholic Church in
the Seymour area goes
to a public hearing
Tuesday night.

The 7 p.m. meeting in
North Vancouver District
council chambers may go
ahead without an important
piece of paper from the
provincial government.

The district is waiting for a
reply from Victoria on
whether the province will
swap its patch of land on the
cast side of Mount Seymour
Road above the Mount
Seymour Parkway for district
land.

For many neighbors of the
St. Pius X Parish at the corner
of the two roads, the lack of
‘an entrance and sxit from
Mount Seymour Road to the
proposed 200-student school
is the only beef they have with
the proposal.

Mayor Don Bell sent the

a ere

request to Environment,
Lands, and Parks Minister
Cathy McGregor fast month.
He had hoped to get a reply
back by Jan. 27.

Acting Mayor Pat Munroe
said the district is still waiting
for the province's official posi-
tion.

“There was a verbal indica-
tion of interest from the
province for a land swap, but
there’s been nothing formal,”
he said Friday.

Although Munroe said the
trattic issue is important, the
public hearing will go ahead.
Munroe said the options are
well-known so people can
make their views heard

- Tuesday.

He said the district may
still get a conclusive reply
from Clark and Co. before the
public hearing. .

Munroe. said the district
councillors would likely wait
for the reply before making a
decision on the _ bylaw.
However, he said council
would not wait forever for.the
province. He believes it will be

a matter of weeks before a
decision is made.

The church’s desire to
have a new school building by
September brings urgency to
the decision.

Church neighbors say they
don’t object to the 260-stu-
dent school going in, but
some do have problems with
the intended access to the
school.

Current plans call for the
access to be off Brockton

Crescent, one block east of

Mount Seymour Road and
just off Mount Seymour
Parkway.

Neighbors want the
school’s exit 10 go through 3
greenbelt to Mount Seymour
Road.

North Vancouver District
says Brocktan is a collector
road that can handle 10,000
vehicles a day. It currently car-
ties 3,200.

Neighbors say thar the 196
extra vehicles expected on
Brockton Crescent when the
school reaches capacity in
approximately five years wili

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curves and another street
feeds on to Brackton.
Deanne Mandell, also a
Brockton resideni, called the
Mount Seymour connection a
common-sense proposal to
deal with the taffic dilemma.

“It’s safety, pure and simple.”

Resident Bill Tracey added
there is only 6] to 75 metres
(200 to 250 feet) between
Mount Seymour Parkway and
the turnoff from Brockton to
the school. In that short area,
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a short period daring the day,
but it’s a critical period.”

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