4 - Wednesday, May 4, 198% — North Shore News

Firm makes second appeal |
for Ambleside 3-storey office

AN APPEAL

for human compassion was mide Monday

night to West Vancouver District Council by ‘staff from

“Chuck Walker & Associates,

the company hoping to move

into a proposed three-storey office building i in Ambleside.

“We'd love to be part of your

a community," said Linda Bell, rep- |

resenting staff members who ‘are

“hoping fora ‘quiet and serene op-

7 -there’H be proposals for
vo storey buildings and we'll lose that
“" wonderful’ ‘village atmosphere: in

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tion’ to working in the crowded

ws and congested downtown core of’,

Vancouver.

They want council to grant per-
mission for a three-storey building
in the 1400-block Bellevue, an area
currently with two-storey zoning.

- Area residents turned out for a,
second time to protest the possible’
infringement on their views and
the precedent that would be set for
more three-storey proposals.

“it’s the thinedge of a wedge,””
“said “Duchess. Avenue. resident
-Rupert® “Wykham. “Next year:

Ambleside, *.

Chuck | Walker said to’ (put
, another {two-storey ‘box building’
\on the site would be ‘terrible’ in
tyiew of revitalization plans for the
- Mambleside commercial district.
\. Walker asked his.
"therefore, to, design a. ‘‘unique’’

‘. building. The ‘resulting | proposal

has a third « “Storey peaked pen-
“thou itting on a portion of. the

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architect,

Hy MAUREEN CURTIS
Contributing Wrier

a walk-through

the ground

floor’ plan, with
for pedestrians on
floor.

“From an economic point of

view it does not make sense to °

limit the building to two storeys, .
said Walker.

He pointed out the economic °

benefits of the new building for his

25 staff members, who will com-.:

prise 30 per cent of the building's

* eventual occupants.

_ He also argued that the building
and its businesses would help hold
the fine on the’ burden shouldered

by local taxpayers, which, he said, -

is becoming ever more oncraus.

“I think the architect is talented
enough to design .a_ two-storey
building that is lovely to look at,”
pointed out area resident Marnic
Robertson, who said an acceptable

' building and many new jobs could

still be brought into the communi:
ty, “through. compromise and
without changing the bylaws."

A’ council ‘decision’ on
building was deferred because

the

aldermen Mark Sager and Gordon - uf

Rowntree were absent.

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