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A SAVE
- on the Park cand. Tilford
tands will not draw shoppers
away from Lonsdale Quay,
a market’ survey: analyst. an
“nounced: ata packed public
hearing Monday” in’ North:
Vancouver. City Council’
“chambers! :

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Calting the development a
“sani: acighbor hood Strip. mall,”
Hermann © Ritcher;* president cof,
Larry Smith sand Associates: Etd., |
said that after surveying §00 shop: .
pers over four daysiat the. Quay,”
his researchers found that.9S° per |
cent of Lonsdale Quay. food Shap.
pers would novshift lo a new Save-
On-Foods store if it were built on ©

» the: controversial industrial-zoned
fandg son Se ote
_ But Ald... John. s
thinks the wrong: wel ons - were”
asked in the surveys a

“This.report ~ shiny, glossy. and
thick — did not-ask the right kinds
“of: questions. It did: not ask. peo-

. ple’ § perceptions about te impact :
sot the shopping centre and. it did ©
“not ask about .trnsportiation.
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hear, a¥ professional: say. thi
: neighbor hood’. shopping © centre.
: wit 1,100 parking space ?

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Kirelt survey aso found that
‘the. ‘existing Save-Ou- Foods store
ewould bear the” heaviest’ losses
‘trom transferred ‘shoppers bat that
‘other, supermarkets: would lose up
=o $9 million inrevenue. 258%
he “public ‘hearing was called to
We residents. concerns ‘about two
proposed « bylaws whielt would
2 change ‘the zoning of the property
from Tight, industrial to coumnerciat .
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~Lf pass dd, the fi
permit BCE. De
build a. shopping centre
‘cinema complex‘on-15 acres ofthe”
property, The second would allow
construction of..a"/movie “studio
. with ‘six’sound stages and. variou
. other: buildings ‘¢ :

St, bylaw would
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Ald: Dana’ “Taylor -voiced fierce’
opposition : to the: shopping centre
because it will'erode the industrial
base of, the city. by. almost 30, per.

“It means 14-acres of highly in
dustrial land will be: forever ‘Jost:
“and those!: jobs: will ‘go instead to
the : district” or never come ‘to: ‘the

“North Shore’ at’ allt Taylor’ ad-
“ded the bylaw represents a betrayal
‘of the residents'in.the area, 600 of.

“whom signed : a petition” opposing
the supermarket. ‘The only people
who .will: benelit. from. this. project

sed for‘ high-tech industry. which:
would create more jobs 'at higher
~ wages for'city residents.

‘ During discussion: of the * film |
studio: development resident Gor:
don Cross urged ¢ uncil to exclude
a portion of the bylaw which ‘pro.
ides ‘for a heliport landing facility
on the site."

sWe.- had {perience with
helicopters when Airwolf was: shot
there and it’ was. very noisy,
especially, with bombs: bursting in:

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