SPCA COMPENSATION DEBATED

Police fo run
dog control —

in West Yan

. West Vancouver is going ;

- to put more teeth into its dog
control .bylaw by hiring two
“bylaw enforcement officers
to ticket owners of dogs
‘which are not under control
in public places.

. Working under the police
‘department, these enforce-
ment officers will be able to

demand the name of the dog
and. issue tickets .

owner
whereas the Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals (SPCA) officers who
formerly did that job lacked
the authority to demand
information.

The only alternative for
SPCA officers in the past was
to follow the dog owner home
and trace him that way, said
Terry Lester, municipal
manager.

About $62,500 has been
budgeted for enforcement
officer salaries and for SO per
cent cost compensation of
dogs kept at the SPCA run
pound and animal adoption
service.

There is a slight savings,
said Lester, over the old
method of having the SPCA
enforce the bylaw and
impound the animals with
the municipality picking up
80 per cent of the tab.

‘What we hope for under
the new system is better
enforcement,’” he said.

Council could not agree,
however, upon an amount to
compensate the SPCA for its
pound services. The matter
was tabled for a week until
Alderman Robert Hicks, who
was council's representative

on SPCA negotiations,
returns.
Marie Moscovitch,

president of the SPCA, said
council should pay $3,600 per
year for pound administra-
tion. Alderman Hicks and
municipal manager Terry
Lester recommended $3,000.

Alderman Don Lanskail
felt council'should support its
own negotiating committee
and pay 33,000. Mayor
Derrick Humphreys said
enforcement officers could
result in the pick-up of more
dogs and more work at the
pound. He was sympathetic
to the SPCA demand for $600
more.

QUESTION: How do 1
go about consuliing with
you”

STEWART: Just
phone 261-6242 for an
appomtment

. police department.

‘After March 31 complaints

about barking dogs should be-
made to the police: depart- .._

ment, to be dealt with under

athe noise bylaw. The matter

of dogs running loose off
their own property should be

_ referred to the bylaw. enforc-

ment. officer through the

ALD. LANSKAIL ...
$3,000 is enough.

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for: strata title conversions —

North Vancouver City
council Monday night ap-

proved. the conversion of.

existing rented duplexes and
_apartmenis to strata title
-purchase units'- ‘but only on
certain terms.

accepted the city engineer's
“report which would allow
strata-title conversion
subject to individual scrutiny
by council. |

~-

- Council would take _into

~— account the life expectancy
of the building, the condition

of the building and the
expected increases in
maintenance costs, together
with statement of the
proposals of the owner for
relocation of rental tenants
who occupied the building.

The building must also
comply with existing by-laws
and codes.

If it is a duplex it must
have been originally built as
a duplex and not as a single
family home. For apart-

ments, approval may hinge -

on the apartment vacancy
rate.

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The city engineer
suggested @ vacancy rate of
one to 1.5 per cent should be

required before‘approval for ~

strata-title conversion was

granted. The vacancy rate

now is 0.7 per cent.

In addition, council may
wish to impose other con-
ditions at their discretion in

-individual cases.

Council’s policy decision _

did not pass without a fight.

Alderman Frank Marcino
said a decision to allow
strata-title conversion would
invite unscrupulous land
developers to make their
profits at the expense of the

‘ tenant.

He wanted council to
endorse -a 1974 policy
decision banning strata-title
conversion outright “in

- ALD. MARCINO wee. City
needs rental units.

order to police developer
shilling”...

“When the ‘city was
planned,” he argued, “they
had to keep in. mind people
who could not buy a home,
so rentals were provided.”

“Now we're going to have

a serious shortage of rental

‘accommodation. Suddenly
we'd have no vacancies,’
Marcino said. “For sale, yes,

but not for rent.”
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' Alderman Elko Kroom, a
lawyer, argued that a

‘blanket ban on strata +titles

may be “null and void”
according to Strata Titles.
Act. .

“We may have an

obligation to hear these
people,” he said. “We can’t
say ‘we "re not going to listen
to you.”

Mayor Loucks said the
slack market in  con-
dominium sales may force
the owners to use them as
rental units, thereby

alleviating a possible rental
shortage.

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