"NEWS photo Hi on MACULLY CLAYTON (left) and Peter Wright (right), both four years old, listen to librarian Lauren Henderson tell a story at a recent West Vancouver Memorial Library Big Bear storytime. The event is held every Friday at 10:30 a.m. Twin towers project gets final approval ALD. TAKES ONE LAST SWIPE WEST VANCOUVER District Council gave final adoption Monday night to a rezoning bylaw that will see the con- troversial twin n towers development go ahead, but not before two aldermen squared off over the issue one final time. Gaieway Pacific, a division of Newcorp Properties, can now pro- ceed with plans to build a twin tower. townhouse and apartment _ complex at the corner of Taytor Way and Marine Drive. Bui Ald. Carol Ann Reynolds, the orly council member to vote against the project, criticized her council for not turning down the rezoning zpplication. Earlier this year the B.C. Supreme Court ordered WVDC to honor a 99-year lease agreement .- with Newcorp Properties for the Taylor Way site, which until recently was occupied by the Royal - Pontiac Buick car dealership. Reynolds maintained council should have appealed the court ruling. . “It’s not a small group who op- pose this. | would plead with you (council) to reconsider (giving fir-31 adoption), but I feel that is a iost cause,”? Reynolds said. She also charged that ‘council has done the very minimum” in listening to the By SURI RATTAN Contributing Writer objections of those who opposed the project. But Ald. Mark Sager said there was very little council could do in denying a rezoning change to Newcorp. He added that a legal review of the court ruling found an appeal would be ‘‘risky?” He also dismissed a suggestion by Reynolds that council buy back the lease from Newcorp. Sager said Newcorp would first have to agree WEST Vercouver Ald. Carol Ann Reynelds ...‘‘counci] has done the very minimum.”’ to the sale and that the deal could. prove to be an expensive one for the municipality. “It’s unfortunate that one of our council members has chosen this argumentative way,’’ Sager said. ‘‘I think it’s unfortunate that comments such as that are forth- coming.”’ Mayor Don Lanskail said coun- cil is considering using the profits of the lease agreement to fund a variety of municipal projects. WEST Vancouver Ald. Mark Sager ...alderman’s comments “anfortunate.”” 3 - Friday, November 17, 1989 - North Shore News Day cares caught in N. Vancouver classroom crunch A CLASSROOM crunch is coming to North Vancouver and that has left day-care and preschool operators scrambling to find new homes for their programs. And the situation will only get worse in the future, a North Van- couver School Board (NVSB) of- ficial predicted Tuesday night. Tom Carlile, NVSB’s assistant superintendent of schools, told the board that there are several reasons why there has been a significant reduction in the classroom space now available to house day-care and preschool pro- grams. He said because of an increase in enrolment and smaller class sizes, the school district has now been forced to use more and more of its classrooms which used to be used by the day-care and preschool programs. “There’s been a squeezing up of available <:lassroom) space,’’ said Carlile. ‘It’s (classroom crunch) coming. It’s not a crisis, but the crunch is coming.”’ Carlile said school enrolment in North Vancouver has been increas- ing for the past five years and ad- ded that increase has used up about 40 classrooms. He added that another reason for the limited number of classrooms now avail- able for day-care and preschool Programs is due tc the smaller classrooms the district has created at the urging of both parents and teachers. “This year alone more than 20 classrooms have been used by staff to provide smaller classrooms,”’ said Carlile. He added that additional English as a Second Language (ESL) classes have also used up additional classroom space. Carlile said the increase in the ESL pro- gram has taken up 12 classrooms which he said ‘‘is the equivalent. of a 300 pupil elementary school.’”” Carlile said the availability of classrooms has also decreased because more time is now being spent teaching arts, sciences and French programs, and several classrooms have teen transformed into computer laboratories, mak- ing them ‘‘unavailable for other teaching purposes.’’ More pro- grams to serve handicapped and learning disabled students are be- ing added and-more and more stu-" dents are filling science, math and language classrcoms, leaving a- void in the areas of industrial education, home economics, business education and art. He added that it would cost “tens of thousands of dollars’’ to convert industrial education, home economics and art classrooms into reguiar classrooms which could ICBC rates to jump 5-11 per cent NORTH SHORE drivers can expect to pay from $30 to $70 more per year for auto insurance coverage under new rates announced last week. “> The average Lower Mainland “anétorist-- hich . includes North : and West Vancouver drivers)” with Te four-year: claim, freé. record, wiil * sge-rates ‘rise front five to 2} per agente’ among tite largest i increase, in “the pioyince.’ oa Fhe” “insprance. “Corporation. of “pre. pte the 1950 ate hike 15 Specific tegions 0 aS- at ot 4 n she’: ._ affid insurance we’ ealnar, “those tevditories: The age -. and. valiéof the: autorhobiles is “"~-also a factor. « ~ ” For the North Shore, and all areas in’B.C:, those who use their cars for pleasure use’ only, face the highest additional cost, up $44 to “Seylark, 21976 Cl $67 per antium. an . $565; up six per cent. . Medium-price ('86 Honda Civic, '86 Dodge Colt, ’87 Nissan Micra): . teasure use only — 1989, $609; Lt $662; up 10 per cent. © to or irom work — 1989, $740; P1990; $7847 up six per cent. « business use — 1989, $783; 1990, Here's the-breakdown, based on, _ 3826; up five per cent.” older ‘vehicles, m