BPP development plan blocked by WV By Susan Pokorski Contributing Writer DESPITE modifications made to the original plans, West Vancouver council has refused to approve the latest development proposal from British Pacific Properties (BPP). Instead council sent the matter back to staff on Monday nighe ask- ing for another report addressing new concerns. BrP vice-president Waiter Thorneloe presented plans for the 104-acre area known as Whirby Estates located west of the Chippendale deve ent, The site is above Folkestone Way and is bounded on the west by Marr Creek and on the east by the main branch of McDonald Creek. The proposal includes up to 142 lots for single-family houses, three multi-family sites, a school site and a park. It calls for preserving land along Marr Creek and the two branches of McDonald Creek as public open space. However, councillors voiced con- cerns over storm water management and preserving trees, They questioned the appearance of the development and lack of com- mu ch Coun. Victor Durman noted the proposed 15-foor driveways and said he feared this would create “a street- scape of garages.” BPP applied for an amendment to the Official Community Plan (OCP), rezoning and a development permit on Sept. 22, 1995. In March 1996 council referred the application to the Advisory Planning Commission, Parks and Recreation Advisory Commission and Advisory Design Panel for review. As a result of these mectings BPP made changes to its original plans. Council will alse have to approve development permits for the single- family lots, the multi-family sites, school and park sites. The rezoning applications will require public hearings. TA Eee “ NEWS photo Bred iday, April 25, 1997 — North Shore News — 3 wo mayors and a filly NORTH Vancouver City and District mayors Jack Loucks and Don Bel! (right) with filly, Amity, get ready for the annual North Vancouver Stakes Race to be held Sunday at Hastings Park. es are different - Ledwidge DELPHINE Masterton operates a bed and breakfast business in her Terrace Avenue home. She began the business in 1985 when North Vancouver mayors’ put the call out for Expo 36 hests. From page \ they can’t because of all the rental cars parked all over the place.” From about now to the end of September he says his street is no longer his own. “[t’s like the front door of the Bayshore. There's luggage on the street. People coming and going late at night, voices, trunks closing. There’s an esthetic and noise issue, but of greater concern is of course the fact that strangers at all hours become the norm in your private place, where frankly it should be a little safer than average. We're working hard to have Beaver Cleaver’s house. We're under threat,” he said. Caulder believes chat even when regulations are in place the municipality will go easy on enforcement. Caulder has no problem with the “ideal” bed and bi operation — a heritage home on an acre of pi . But he said, “Where are those houses? What is the district approving for con- struction? Nine thousand square-foot &B bylaws lots. There’s no room for automobiles SO what are West Vancouver and tions are in effect in North Vancouver District. the pressure will be on for North Vancouver City and West Vancouver to adopt a similar stance. “Wait until the people in West Van get a load of this, Those are people who are concerned for property values. | think North Vancouver has pockets of wealth similar to West Vancouver, but West Van, whoa, look out. Those peo- ple in West Van are all asleep. ‘They don’t know what's going on. They (bed and breakfast advocates) will go to West Van and say look what North Van is doing. They'll leap frog it.” Delphine Masterton operates a bed and breakfast many miles away from Caulder’s — cul-de-sac. Laburnum Cottage is located on ‘Terrace Avenue. It’s an ideal bed and breakfast scenario. The home sits on a large property in a quiet area. Masterton offers two guest cottages as well as three bedrooms in the main house. Parking is available on the property, Said Masterton of Caulder’s plight, “T teel for him. We all pay good moncy for our homes and we don’t want that sort of thing. “Pm on almost an acre, bur still, I have bed and breakfast colleagues high up on the mounta that the family owns, never mind what all these guests are bringing in. There is a fantasy and a reality.” Caulder anticipates that once regula- North Vancouver City bureau- crats doing about B&Bs? In West Vancouver, B8&cBs are not allowed in the municipality. In North Van City, B&Bs are ermitted in all single-family jomes with these restrictions: @ wo bedrooms only in one home may be used for B&B business, unless the home is on the Heritage Inventory list. A heritage home may have three B&B bedrooms; @ one additional parking space on the property is required for each B&B room; @ interconnected smoke alarms (not battery operated) must be set up in all sleeping rooms of house; ® a mounted 5 [b. ABC Class fire extinguisher must be visible in the kitchen; @ 2 B&B must have a business licence which requires a house inspection and an electrical per- mit for the smoke alarms. — Anaad Marie D’Angelo n. They“re close to people and there never has been a problem unless there is a neighbor who is jealous of somebody being successful. “It looks easy, running a bed and breakfast. It’s not. Unless you are willing to spend 16 to 20 hours a day and work your burt off... I don’t think it’s fair for some- body to blanker us all,” she said. though she has fived in her home for decades, she started her bed and break- fast business in 1985 to serve the tourist needs anticipated for Expo 86. At the time, the mayors of North Vancouver suggested that people open their homes to guests to alleviate the space crunch at hotels. Said Masterton, “There never will be enough hotels. When we get our new con- vention centre it’s going to be worse. Bed and breakfasts bring in the tourism dol- lar. We sell people the things they didn’t know about. [ have them going to all the gardens, Capilano Suspension Bridge, Grouse Mountain, even Lynn Canyon Park, the restaurants, West and North Vancouver, and Vancouver. We do a great service for this area.” She operates year round and hosts “many” people annually, “TL love it,” she said.