A.P.
NicGredie

INQUIRING REPORTER

SRQERULY AED
NORTH VANCOUVER,
CITY COUNCIL

Lot size for
duplexes cut

NORTH VANCOUVER City has
headed off a growing problem of
lots turning out to be just under
the 6,000 sq.ft. (540 sq.m) re-
quired for building a duplex.

By Stephen Wisenthal
Contributing Writer

Councillors voted on Wednes-
day, May 5, to reduce the lot size
required to build a duplex in an
RT-1 two-family residential zone
to 5,900 sq.ft. (53! sq.m).

The change was prompted by a
request from the owners of 232
St. Patricks Ave., who had a sale
of their property fall through
when it turned out to be frac-
tionally under 6,000 sq.ft. (540
sq.m). It was the third such lot to
come before council for rezoning
this year.

Staff reported to council that
the problem stemmed from mod-
em survey methods producing
more accurate lot sizes.

“About 150 lots surveyed before
the First World War were thought
to be 6,000 sq.ft. (540 sq.m), but
recent measurements have revealed
they are a bit s-naller.

“The difference between a

6,000-sq.ft. (540 sq.m) and
5,975.6-sq.ft. (538 sq.m) lot is so
minimal as to have no meaningful
effect upon development poten-
tial,’’ stated the report to council.

The amendments will come up
for second and third readings
at future council meetings.

Robert Groves

Vancouver

! must admit the bridge's
physical appearance does look
worn down, bat | can't really
say I've ever felt’ unsafe
crossing the Lions Gate
Bridge.

Robb Utendale

Vancouver

E think about it. guess 1
don't feel 100% safe. Let's
say I feel 95% safe.

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Babak Shuhbazi

West Vancotver

L think they should improve
it, He doesn't feel sale when
you drive over it. [t's dan-
gerous changing the middle
Jane's direction back and
fort.

Janice Aver

West Vancouver

Pye seen the studies from 4
number of municipalities (hat
have conducted tests on the
bridge, and most of those
opinions varied. 1 think the
bridge has to be replaced, but
1 do feel safe when I'm on it.

Do you feel s

safe crossing

the Lions Gate Bridge?

THE LIONS Gate Bridge was
opened to traffic in 1938 ata cast
of $6 million. The estimated life
of the bridge wis 50 yeurs.

Fifty-five years later, an in-
dependent engineering study by
North Vancouver's Buckhind and
Taylor Ltd. released this month
states, “the Lions Gate ridge is
safe but requires a comprehensive
maintenance program to ensure it
is fully serviceable lor at least five
years,"

More than $30 million has been
spent on bridge rehabilitation in
the past (7 years, and the
Buckland report says a further $10
million could be required in’ the
nest five years,

When the study was released,
Transportauion and Highways
Minister Art Charbonneau said,
“whatever the fature decision on
the crossing, the Lions Gate
Bridge, in the meantime, will be
fully maintained and the safety of
the travelling public assured,’'

The report concludes that an-
nual inspections and maintenance
e vensure sufe service until 1998,

The North Shore News survey
team began calling North Shore
residents last Monday to find out
how Charbonneau's assurance of
bridge safety was received,

A majority (56.2%) of those
polled said they felt safe when
walking, biking or driving across
the bridge. An even 30%, howev-
er, said they were concerned about
the structural safety of the first
crossing span,

The most interesting response,
which 10.2% of the respondents
chose, was they never use the
bridge. It is unclear from the
News poll whether this means they
never leave the North Shore,
or they simple use the Se-

cond Narrows bridge when travel-
ling to Vancouver.

In a zone-by-zone breakdown,
all areas but two on the North
Shore responded in relatively the
same numbers. The exceptions
were in Upper Lynn Valley ~
where the yes votes. to the no
votes were equal -— and Lower:
Lynn Valley — where 33% said
they never use the Lions Gate
Bridge.

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