_ ‘page.14- July 27, 1977 - North Shore News

Dear Editor:

Those present at the West
Vancouver Municipal Coun-
cil meeting Monday 18 July
heard a splendidly summar-
ized brief to Council by Mr
Peter Bradbury on behalf of
every civic and taxpayer
group in West Vancouver.

It concerned the proposed
developments above the

Upper Levels Highway to.

house 8 to 10,000 additional
people when completed. He
spoke on:

epotential flooding and

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®the threat the develop-—
ments pose to the quality of .
life in West Vancouver. ,

In the case of the off-site
capital costs he asked for an
economic. study to estimate
just what they would be as a
charge on the general tax-
payers if not borne by the
deveioper. An estimate of
school building, police, fire,
garbage collection equip-
ment, sewer and storm water
down hill installations, road
widening and necessary ex-

pansion of ali municipal

services was given at some
$20 million plus debt servic-

drainage problems especially
as affecting residents below
the highway —

ing.
$20,000 for each new resi-
dent in addition to the actual

This would be some

on-site land, building and =

®capital costs. the

municipality resulting from
the proposed developments

servicing cost. —

Mayor Peter Jones ann-

°

‘ounced that he proposed a

public meeting on the subject
on Aug. 10 prior to the legal
public hearing in September

- when Council would consider

the first Land Use Contract
with the developers. Ald.

_Tom Marshall suggested that

the August date would find
some Aldermen and many of
the concerned public on
vacation and proposed an
early September date. It was

noteworthy that Mayor Jones
‘persistently tried to make the

August date stick ‘in the
interests of speed.’ One
wonders .at the need for
unseemly haste on such a
critical but contentious dev-
elopment. Fcriunately the
concern of Ald. Marshall
prevailed on Council over the

. _Mayor’s objections.

The development of the

lands, bought many decades
ago by British Pacific Prop-
erties and others for a very
nominal amount, is fast
being shown as _ geograph-
ically, economically and eco-
logically unsound and the
municipality cannot afford to
commit . itself for unprece-
dented costs for possible
residents yet unknown.

It may well be that West
Vancouver, through its pres-
ent residents and ‘Council,
will find that it does not
need, cannot afford and does
not want these proposed
developments.

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Derrick Humphreys
West Vancouver

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August is the time to sit
back and enjoy the work
you’ve put into making your

home exterior attractive.
Flowers shculd be “‘popping-
up’’ all over the place, some
for garden beauty and some
fer cutting arrangements.

“LAWN CARE

You’ve fertilized and con-
trojied the weeds and insects
‘so your lawn should be
looking the best it ever has.
Remember, water is impor-
tant for a most outstanding
lawn. When: it hasn’t rained
for a few days, get the
sprinkler going. Don’t just
give it a light sprinkling; get
the water down at least three
to six inches into the soil.
How are you going to tell
when you’ve gotten that
much water down to the root

system? Place a few soup |

tins five, ten and fifteen feet
away from the sprinkler and
as the water falls into the
soup tins, it will indicate how
much water has been ab-.
sorbed by the soil. If a few
weeds show up on your lawn,
“‘spud’’ them out, or use
Vigoro Weed-N-Feed. You
can spot-treat the weeds,
while the plant food stimu-
lates the grass to fill in. It
takes time to build a good
lawn, but it does give you a
great deal of satisfaction
having the best lawnon your
street. .

HEDGES

Keep hedges in control
with pruning. It makes them
look attractive and keeps the
bottem growth fall. Nothing
jooks worse than a very tall
hedge out of control. It won’t
hurt the hedge to be cut back
one third. For example if it is
six feet, cut two feet off the
top and the bottom will fill

out. One thing I like to do,

early this month, is side
dress the hedge with Vigoro
Evergreen fertilizer, then
gently scratch it into the soil
and water well.

Spraying is important to
control insects that are not
seen until the damage is
done, so a regular spraying

of water soluble insecticides
is recommended. Other than

mildew, very few fungi will
attack a hedge. Privet is one
that does require regular
spraying with a good insecti-
cide and should be done

_ every ten days for complete

control.
PRUNING .

If vou havent already
done so, better get pruning
on those early spring flower-
ing shrubs, like lilacs.
forsythia and spireas. It is
recommended that the flower
heads, (spent bloom) of lilacs
be removed. Next year’s
flowers are being formed
from right under that seed

spike.

CHRYSANTHEMUMS
If .you’ve planted the

rooted cuttings of The
Masterpiece Series, you
should be seeing imany
blooms starting to form along
about now. This or any other
variety of Chrysanthemums,

including the Azalea Cascad-

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I like to feed them a 5-10-10.
Chrysanthemums often will

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With a good feeding to
stimulate growth and a
thorough spraying to control
the insects you should have

excellent bloom production

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later this month and right
into fall.

BREAK GROURD

if you’ve found your
vegetable garden rot large

enough, now is the time to |
dig over an area and let it. o&

fallow. Work in some organic

a1
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husbandry. Vigoro has a
weed-free,

man mee

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your garden during this

period of the year, you’ve.

worked at it, it’s producing,
and it makes you feel good
knowing that you’ve made it
. grow. -

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