DEVELOPER'S DREAM might describe the present scene at the rear of Park Royal South.

Tep, locking east toward the site of the new $10 million Bay store. Below, construction work
for the bridge, to be located near the Kapilano 100 office tower [Noel Wright photos].

groups are extremely alar-
med at thelong-term implica-
tions of impending decisions.
regarding the disposition of
traffic patterns at Marine
Drive and Taylor Way to
serve the new developments
in the Park. Royal South
shopping centre.

In a meeting last week behind closed decors
West Vancouver council was urged by ratepayer
groups from all parts of the municipality to avert
the traffic chaos threatened by the expansion of
Park Royal before it is too late.

‘The nine separate groups,
representing thousands of
West Van residents from
Cedardale to Horseshoe Bay,
expressed ‘‘extreme alarm at
the long-term implications of
impending decisions regard-
ing the dispositions of traffic
patterns at Marine Drive and
Taylor Way to serve-the new:

The presentation to council
was signed by the West
Vancouver Electors Assoc-
iation, the Horseshoe Bay
Community Association, the
Eagle Harbour Ratepayers
Association, ' the — British
Property & Homeowners
Association (see also page
14), the Gleneagles Rate- .

‘‘The information gather-
ed by these groups indicates
that’ present proposals por-
tend traffic congestion at the
intersection that could be

disastrous to all West Van-
couverites who travel in or
through the area, and to the

developments in the Park ‘payers, West Vancouver investors and businessmen

Royal South shopping cen- SPEC, the Citizens Planning of Park Royal whose interests

tre.”’ . . Forum and Central Rate- demand the easiest access
payers.

and egress from that splen-

Public and press’ -were did shopping facility.

excluded from. the meeting,
at which a brief endorsed by
ail nine groups was presen-
ted to Mayor Jones and
council members by two
spokesmen—Roy _Bartholo-
mew of the Gleneagles
Ratepayers Association and
Martin Ray of the Citizens
Planning Forum.

The full text of the brief

was as follows: “The present proposed

traffic dispositions at the

“The undersigned repre- intersection do not: appear to

entatives of nine major
West Vancouver ratepayers’

Congratulations —

and a $25” cheque to
Mary Little of North
Vancouver for creating

The hour-long presenta-
tion ' maintained that the
developers’ present prop-
osals ‘‘could be disastrous to
‘all West Vancouverites.”’ It
asked council to consult with
ratepayers groups and the
public generally —_ before
coming to binding decisions
concerning the traffic flow at
Park Royal South.

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February 14.

By NOEL ¥ WRIGHT

This winter’s unpreceden-
ted weather patterm has
apparently defeated the plan
of the regional parks branch
to introduce snowmobiling in
Cypress Park. The reason: no
snow.

The branch announced last
‘month that, starting Febru-
ary, up to 50 snowmobiles a
day would be . allowed to

operate in the park for a frial.

period. If the experiment, in
an area separate from -the
ski-ing area, proved success-
ful, it was suggested that
snowmobiling might be au-
thorized on a permanent
basis.

Last week David Bruce of
the parks branch announced
that snowmobiles may not
get into the park at all this
year, due to the near
snowless conditions that

A skull and some human

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West. ; Vancouver police
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have also kept Skiers oif ihe
slopes.

Bruce said it would take a
major snowfall to open the.
park to snowmobiles at this
stage. “February and

March,”’ he noted, are not
traditionally good months for
snow in Cypress Bowl.”’

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Meanwhiie, Grouse Moun-
tain and Whistler remain
closed for lack of snow.

Conditions on Seymour are
poor, although the Goldie

rope tow is operating.

Manning Park, said Bruce,
has some cross-country ski-
ing but no downhill.

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