December 22, 1991

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NORGATE COMMUNITY students stopped by Lions Gate Hospital Thursday
morning to sing carols and hand out art work they made specially for the
occasion. In the above photo they chat with patient Charlie Watts.

Residents call for Dykeman’s
resignation over tree removal

adjacent to Earl’s Restaurant on

RESIDENTS OF Glen Aire Drive in North Vancouver
District have cailed for the resignation of district Mayor
Murray Dykeman and the district’s director of engineering
John Bremner over the removal of several trees adjacent to

their properties.

And a residents’ spokesman has
accused Dykeman of intentionally
misleading his council over the
issue, a charge denied by both
Dykeman and one alderman.

Last week West Vancouver
District removed several trees on
district property that lined Glen
Aire Drive in order to build an

By Surj Rattan
News Reporter

access road to a new family and
seniors’ housing development cur-
rently under construction.

The Klahanee Park complex is

the north side of the 300-block of

Marine Drive; it sits on West
Vancouver District property but is
only accessible through North
Vancouver District.

It will include 56 seniors’ and
48 family units.

The removal of the trees has ef-
fectively destroyed a wooded buf-
fer zone that residents said had
blocked the sight and noise of
Marine Drive traffic.

Glen Aire Drive residents
spokesman Glenyth Nasvadi said
area residents were told the hous-

ing project would only procced if
the wooded buffer zone was left
intact.

She added that people purchas-
ed homes in the area because of
the trees.

“To say the residents are livid
would be an understatement. West
Vancouver has an agreement with
North Vancouver (district) that
this buffer zone would remain in-
tact,’? said Nasvadi. ‘*Mayor
Dykeman deliberately misled his
council by not telling them the
trees would be coming down.’”

“The residents of the area feel
Bremner and Dykeman have
shown incompetence and we will
ask for their resignations at the
next council meeting.’’

Another Glen Aire Drive resi-
dent, Dan O’Rourke, claimed
Dykeman had ‘‘made a deal’ with
West Vancouver Mayor Mark

REACHING EVERY DOOR ON THE NORTH SHORE

Sager to take out the trees.

“If | had known what was go-
ing to happen I would have stood
in front of the cutters. I would
have gone to jail if I had to,’’ said
O'Rourke. ‘I’m just sick at what
has happened. I’m just shocked at
Dykeman.””

But Dykeman said the removal
of the trees was authorized by
district councils.

The area’s residents, he said,
had requested an access road to
the housing complex be buil
through the parking lot of the
nearby Evergreen Squash Ciub
and that the only way to accom-
modate that request was to take
out the trees.

“‘The tree removal was neces-
sary to create a roadway away
from Glen Aire Drive. We

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