You Kow, they loved me in Enrope fa aR at {HE LATEST attempt to control the so- called monster house infill problem in North Vancouver District has council retreating from more restrictive zoning ‘amendments proposed early in 1993 to a more workable compromise. - ‘Single-family infill-housing is a touchy subject anywhere, but- particularly in com- munities with great view lots like North Vancouver. The skyrocketing value of real estate and the continued demand for big houses puts pressure on neighborhoods. The maximum height regulation proposed last year would have taken the allowable height for flat-roofed houses down to 18 feet (5.5 m) from an existing allowable 24 (7.3 m). The proposal now stands at 22 feet (6.7m). A sloping roof of three in 12 or greater (three-inch slope for every horizontal 12 inches) receives a maximum height of 26 feet Faun (7.9 my versus the 20 feet (6.06 m) initially suggested. The existing limit is 28 feet (8.5 5 m. A sloping roof of six in' 12 or greater. gets 30 feet (9.1 m), down from the existing 32 feet (9. 7 in), but more than the originally proposed 24 foot (7.3 m) maximum, A proposal to reduce maximum allowable site coverage remains unchanged — 35%, _ down from the present 40%. . Someé will say it’s not fair and that. proper- ty values will plummet, but the amendments as proposed are 2 good compromise. The brightest move in all of this is the bid for neighborhood-by-neighborhood zoning. You can’t legislate good neighborliness but the proposed process, if it involves active par- ticipation by residents, will go a long way toward: maintaining the integrity of existing communities. NEWS QUOTES OF THE WEEK “My tax money is going to mulliculturalism and recognizing everyone who, walks the earth. Well, E walk the earth. Though usually fF float above it.” White witch Lucy Ridley. on her. cbeliels and her metaphysical achievements, (From a Feb. 13 News story.) 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Submissions are welcome but we cannot accept responsibility for unsolicited material including manuscripts and pictures which should be accompanied by a stamped, addressed envelope. ...Peter Speck Timothy Renshaw Noel Wright Newsroom V7M 2H4 inp this is because | believe in there. is lap dancing and FE certainly wouldnt want to dancing in North Vancouver City ¢ voicing ceras over the type of da incing that will be done at Pepita’s. after city council approved a dance floor at the North Vancouver City restau- Display Advertising Real Estate Advertising 985-6982 Classitied Advertising 1138 1¢ Tonsdale Avenue North Vancouver B.C. Nonh Shore Managed rant. (From a Feb, 18 News story) “EL know the perception is ‘What's with these people?” But we're nol bogeymen; we're not out to destroy the planet.” _ Lirco Investments Lid. planner Bob Heastip, on public perceptions of the company. which owns West Vancouver's Park Royal Shopping Centre. (From the Feb. 18 Garden of Biases cohann) North oun, her, con- * 986-1337 96-1297. 985-3227 ae 985-2131 ee TR MEMBER Gon Sk” & rr Distribution Subscriptions 986-6222 Fax 985-2131 Administration 980-0511 oo + tina Beaspape coMtains tecycled the = ; SDA DIVISION 61 582 {average citculatinn. Wednesday, Feiciay & Sunday) Entire contents © 1994 North Shore Free Press Ltd. All rights reserved:- on are ect tee fe HOLIDAY AT home this year and maybe make your- self'a nice little capital gain. With every U.S. dollar already costing $1.37 Canadian, look for the price to rise steadily higher after - Tuesday. That's the day Finance Minister Paul Martin brings down his first budget, showing haw he proposes to reduce Oltawa’ $45 billion deficit 10 around $20 billion within three years. As everyone — including the | niinister himself — knows, the only way to do itis to cut spending - DRASTICALLY. But that's not the message we've got from any of his public pre-budget musings. To be sure. hell make a few , cosmetic cuts. But all indications: are that he'll rely again — like his predecessors lor decades — on tax hikes, often arthully disguised. This despite proof on every hand that higher taxes no longer pity off, because they s imply drive more and more honest citizens into the under- ground economy. Listening to Paul claiming to do whit must be done, but not doing it, will be the international moncy~ men — already edgy about Canada’s half-trillion-dollar nation- al debt and the separatist ravings of Bauchard’s Bloc Quebecois. Who could blame them for off-loading the Canadian dollar and driving it down to 70 cents.U.S. or lower? Just where and how much, then, ought Martin to be wielding his axe in order to keep the money-men happy and the looney stable? Stephen Van Houten, president of the Canadian Manufacturing Association, recently analysed Canada’s debt situation with com- puter models — showing Medicare, Old Age Security. education, equal- ization transfers to provinces and make-work projects promised by Chretien during the election as “protected” budget items. In order to reduce the deficit to about $21 billion by 1996 — the timid Liberal goal — the models call for cuts of 47% in all items except the “protected” ones. If the latter were cut by 10%, the cuts in non-protected items could be eased ‘10.32%, To ELIMINATE the deficit and finally balance the budget by 1996 s present suicidal . HITHER AND YON. — the truly urgent goal —- Van Houten’s models dumand cuts of 82% in all items except the “pro- lected” ones, or 73% if the “pro- tected” items were also cut by 10%, - Those we numbers Mr, Martin’ ” prefers not to think about. But they are the only numbers that could . sive Canadians from the tough love. meted out to national bankrupts by the International Monetary Fund. ° So tomorrow consider buying all the U.S. dollars you can afford. Reselling them this summer could carn you the price of a mod- est vacation in Kelowna while we wait for the world’s bailiffs te knock onthe door!) -: eee " WRAP-i JP: Time again: to ‘start | planning for one of: Capilano College’ $ popular summer work shops in France —~ featuring paint- ing, drawing and the French lan- guage. For details anda brochure “call 984-4907 ... rod and tackle’is’. “5 your hobby, contact Lions Gate Anglers (Bill Frost 929-0311) — a small group of fishermen enjoying.‘ beth river and saltwater fishing, with. monthly meetings and socials .. The Class of '64 — largest in the history of West Van High. School -— holds its 30th reunion ‘May ‘13- 14. Hf you qualify for the funy-call.)' 987-6318 or 980-977 1- soon <2. And. many happy returns. of Tuesday; Feb. 22, to North Van Kiwanian : Sakerkhanu Karim... : WRIGHT OR WRONG: be wiser. = than other people if you can, but , never tell them so.. i “NEWS phota Nell Lucente : BOARD. MEMBERS and longtime volunteers were on hand recently at North Lonsdale United chuch for the cake-cutting to celebrate 25 years of Meals on Wheels service on the North Shore. That’s charter member Jessie Smith doing the cutting: honors.