Weather: Tide Table For Pt. Atkinson Friday 13 Saturday 14 Sunday 15 Mostly sunny Friday. Saturday, mostly cloudy. Highs near -6°C. Time HLF. 0730 16.3 1235 12.3 1645 14.5 0025 4 0615 16.3 1330 12.1 1740 13.9 0119 «1.3 0905 16.2 1445 11.7 1835 13.1 Classified Ads Entertainment Lifestyles Mailbox NEWS photo lan Smith ONTARIO’S Premier David Peterson seems mesmerized by Premier Bill Bennett’s vision of the effects of the SkyTrain on transportation in Greater Vancouver. The cars for the Automated Light Rapid Transit system were built in Ontario. Television reporter Pamela Martin tistens in on the conversation. = | . r E | 2 a 2 | ss City rezoning ‘discriminates NORTH Vancouver City is discriminating against rezoning applications from small site developers, an alderman charged Monday. Ald. applicants wishing to rezone lots less than 10,000 square feet are rejected despite their adherance to the official community plan’s required density. The city recently rejected a rezoning application by C.Y. Loh for garden apartments at 2160 Eastern Avenue, and put a similar rezoning ap- plication by C.R. Matthews of C.J. Ventures at 2132 and 2136 Eastern Avenue on hold. The official community plan for the 2100 block Eastern Avenue calls for garden apartments, en- couraging maximum density between 16 and 30 units per acre. Both proposals comply with 24.89 units per acre proposed. The community plan states lots have to be over 5,000 square feet, but city council has been following a policy of approving pro- Dana Taylor says. posals only if the lot is larger than 1,000 square metres or 10,764 square feet. Taylor said this policy of only considering lots over 10,000 square feet began with a precedent-setting February, 1984 decision over irregular sized lots in the Hamilton/ Fell area. “The lots were irregularly configured. Sizes were not easily accommodating to uniform size. So only sites in excess of 1,000 square metres were considered. This has been taken from that and catapulted inte the whole city, particularly for garden apartment applica- tions,”’ Taylor said. “What's at fault here is the policy of this council's development of small lots. “Small sties are not allowed to develop to max- imum size, but lo and behold the city passes projects with higher densities on larger sites. We have a policy here where council discriminates. And if it continues to exer- cise this discrimination it must deal with the conse- quences. This is a totally in- appropriate approach, There should be specific design criteria.”” “Every developer has the opportunity to make a pro- posal, but the city is establishing a discriminatory policy. 1 wouldn’t be sur- prised if someone takes them to court.’”’ But Ald. Stella Jo Dean said the 2100 block of Eastern Avenue is made up of single family dwellings, and residents are not inter- ested in being separated by small clusters of develop- ment. “Council should take into consideration the kind of ci- ty they want and the kind of mass that is being ac- cumulated. The neighborhood is primarily single family. And we should take into consideration the city’s policy where only lots over 10,000 square feet are considered.’’ Applicant C.Y. Loh ap- peared before council Mon- day requesting his rejected application be reconsidered. “Our proposal to rezone has been unjustly rejected,” Loh said in a letter read by his son, Loh explained that he was given no reason by city staff for why his application did not go to the city’s Advisory Planning Commission, and yet he said applicant C.R. Matthews of C.J. Ventures’ application went before the APC Council unanimously voted in favor of reconsid- ering Loh's proposal, of rescinding the old resolution and advancing the applica- tion to the APC. Council also agreed to forward C.J. Ventures’ ap- plication to a public hearing, with the amendment that an alternative be looked at to give seniors priority in the housing. 3 - Friday, December 13, 1985 - North Shore News Krys baby operated on THREE-month-old Christopher Krys under- went a hernia operation to his left side in Van- couver Children’s Hospital Thursday. The surviving triplet of Czeslaw and Graznya Krys was admitted to hospital on Wednesday for his second such operation. A_ hernia operation to his right side was performed in mid- October. Tragedy struck the Krys family Dec. 2 when Christopher’s sisters, Christine and Anne Elizabeth, were found dead in their cribs by their father. Their death has been attributed to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. The triplets were born at Vancouver’s Grace Hospital Aug. 8. Now landed im- migrants, Czeslaw and Graznya fled their native Poland in 1982, They ar- rived in Canada in 1984. Condition of Christopher Krys was unavailable to press time Thursday. Viothers impersonated ‘THIEFS AND imposters are using charity to extort money from unsuspec- ting, well-meaning peo- ple. On Nov. 16 the thiefs stole 20 Kinsmen Mothers March receipt books and five collection tins with bright orange stickers from the Hendry Avenue YMCA in North Van- couver. Now they door-to-door sonating marchers, are going imper- col- lecting donations and pocketing the profits. The receipts’ serial numbers are 488250 to 488500 and 59571 to 59600. There are 500 tickets in all. The actual Kinsmen Mothers March is being held Jan. 25to Feb. 4. Anyone who has a canvasser come to the door is requested to call the local police: North Vancouver RCMP ‘985- 1311, West Vancouver Police 922-4141. ; $60,000 car written off A 35-year-old Alberta man took a $60,000 slide in North Vancouver Monday evening. Driving a friend’s Lamborgini, the motorist slid on black ice in the 1200 block Heywood Avenue shortly after 5 p.m. The 1977 sports car, which would be worth approximately $125,000 brand new, slammed into a pickup truck parked on the roadside. The Lamborgini. suf- fered an estimated * $60,000 in damages while only $1,000 damage was done to the 1976 Ford truck. Sex assault charges laid A 25-YEAR-OLD North Vancouver man will undergo 30 days of psychiatric observation Tuesday before legal pro- ceedings against him on charges of sexual assault continue. Ross William Robinson appeared before North Vaneouver provincial court Judge J.D. Layton, charged with one count of break and enter with intent to commit an in- dictable offence, one count of sexual assault and one count of assault in connection with inci- dents involving three dif- ferent women that were alleged to have occurred Aug. 3 and Dee. 9. Judge Layton commit- ted Robinson to the Forensic Psychiatric [n- stitute in Port Coquitlam. Robinson will appear in North Vancouver pro- , vincial court Jan. 9, pen- ding the outcome of his psychiatric report.