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B.C. Supreme Court relief sought for Gleneagles zoning

BC RAIL is asking B.C.
Supreme Court to declare a

West Vancouver zoning
bylaw amendment null and
void.

By Anna Marie D'Angelo

News Reporter

The Crown corporation filed the
lawsuit on Tuesday.

The municipal bylaw amend-
ment at issue would change the
zoning ‘of BC Rail land in the

. Gleneagles area from RS4 (9.000 to
20,000 square-foot lots) to RS2
{more than 20.000 square leet per
lot).

‘The zoning bylaw amendment

_. passed first reading and is

. a public hearing on Feb, 2

The railway has leased its
Gleneagles land to West Vancouver
since 1978. The lease expires later
this year,

West Vancouver uses a portion
of the land it leases fron, BC Rail
for the Seaview Walk, a playing
field and the overflow parking fot
for BC Ferries.

The BC Rail land was once an

sement fora rail dine. it was
abandoned after a 1972 train derail-
ment, BC Rail subsequently built a
rail tunnel on nearby West

Vancouver land. That Jand is indef-

inilely leased from the municipati-
tv. ;

In January, BC Rail Properties
submitted an application to develop
a 40-lot subdivision for the aban-
doned easement site just hours

before the subdivision approval
process wis. altered by council.

The new procedure does iuway
with preliminary approval and
requires developers to present the
detailed plans necessary for final
approval of a project.

The new process would have
likely sent BC Rail back to square
one with its lucrative subdivision
plans,

In its petition to court. the rail-
way contends the 27-aere (E1-
heetare) strip of Land would be “vir-
tually unsubdividable” if rezoned.

Mayor Mark Sager said in
Januery the zoning change would
make the property's development
consistent with the surrounding
neighborhood.

But BC Rail spokesman Hilary

Thomson said the company con- *

tends it cannot subdivide under the
proposed new zoning. She said BC
Rail would like to proceed with
subdivision bylaws in place atthe
time of its development application,

West Vancouver Coun, Andy
Danvliu favors the land to be zoned
for transportation purposes instead
of residential.

Danyliu believes that when the
land proposed for subdivision: was
originally deeded to BC Rail. it was
hot intended as a tax-free develop-
ment resource for the raihway com-
pan

It’s the not paying of taxes that
offends my sensibility of natural
justice.” said Danytiu.

See Property page 4

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