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heritage bid bounced

A CONTROVERSIAL attempt to
create a development permit area in
a North Lonsdale neighborhood
famous for its heritage homes was
put on hold by North Vancouver
District Council on Monday.

NORTH VANCOUVER
DISTRICT COUNCIL
by Martin Millerchip

Under a proposed amendment to
the district's. Official Community
Plan, landscape and building guide-
lines would have applied to home-
owners wishing to redevelop or
renovate within: a permit area sur-
rounding St. George’s Ave.
between East Queens to the south
and East Cambridge to the north.

Homeowners on the district’s
adopted heritage inventory would
also have had to comply with addi-
tional guidelines regulating such
things as color, exterior materials
and window and door treatments.

However, residents from the
proposed historic area have lobbied
council relentlessly since the bylaw
amendments were first announced
in early January.

They say they were never con-
sulted by the district's Heritage
Advisory Committee, which formu-
lated the recommendations, nor by
planning staff who drew up the
bylaw amendments.

Mayor Murray Dykeman pro-
posed postponing the public hear-
ing of the bylaw amendments until
representatives from the Heritage
Advisory Committee had met with
affected property owners and the
North Lonsdale Community
Association.

. Dykeman suggested that such a
consultative process could be com-
pleted by September.

“Staff will come back.to us and
say whether we deai with the bylaw
as presented, moderate it or start
again,” said Dykeman.

But residents like Monica

Rogers have already told council
that they did not want to live
“under threat” for the summer.

“Give us back our neighbor-
hood,” she told council Monday.
“It’s ime to start over and do it
right.”

Rogers and her husband say that
until recently they had no idea that
their home on East St. James had
been placed on the district's sec-
ondary heritage list.

She has been instrumental in
Organizing opposition to the bylaw
amendments and claims staff have
not disclosed the full impact of the
building guidelines to the affected
residents.

In the face of continued lobby-
ing council voted unanimously to
ask staff to bring back the bylaw
amendments so that they can be
rescinded.

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