SANTA CLAUS probably
would have suited them
better, but North Vancouver
City council members ended
up playing the part of
Ebenezer Scrooge Monday
night.

The fictional miser who
hated Christmas would have
been proud of council's
decision not to allow Arla
Whipp to sell Christmas

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A group of. seven mem-
bers, including three council
members ‘and. four District
residents will comprise the
solid waste committee
group. 2

Those: from council are
Bakér,:-aldermen Jim Ball.
and. ‘Ernie Crist while those
from “the public include
Penny McDonald, Dan
Simunic, Robert Cameron
and Craig Clark.

Once. underway, the task

group:'will examine . viable
solutions ‘and. “identify - the.
social, * “ecological ~ ‘and™
economic impacts of each
alternative.”

They are also responsible
for determining just how

and will be required to
provide council with “final
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total areas of fill and heights
of fill of existing and under-
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but council really didn’t have
any choice in the matter.

Whipp tGk - out one
month’s lease on the
property for about $700, and
invested another -$10,000
only to find that Christmas
trees cannot be sold at that
spot because the zoning is
wrong.

Mayor Jack Loucks told
Whipp’s lawyer, “Council

Baker pointed — out the

also. ‘have power to appoint
sub-committees “who in the

_ View of the task group would

benefit the committee as a

- whole.”
decide ‘which’ alterna mative is "~

However, the solid. waste
committee's: powers will be
limited and “as such has: no
direct powers to engage
outside ‘consultants or

assistance” and is merely an.
advisory body to council.

Also, the task group will
‘have to report its progress to
council:.“on a. ‘bi-monthly
basis” ‘and the ‘group's final
report and =  recom-
mendations will have to be
completed by August 31.

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has no right to break its own 7

bylaws.” And, though
various council members
tried to think of ways to get
around that fact, none of
them could think of any
means of allowing Whipp to
sell her trees before January
at the very least. It would
take that long to make the
necessary zone changes.
Trees can only be sold in
retail zones and the West Ist
location is zoned industrial.
Ian Guthrie, who
represented Whipp before
council, asked
members to grant his client a
special dispensation. But

Loucks warned that council .”..

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danger when you let '
heart control your mind,’ he
said.

Council voted to have staff
allowing

investigate

Christmas trees to be sold in
industrial zones, but the staff
report won't be forthcoming
until January, too late for
Whipp to sell her trees.

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