Al2 _Weangday, Tune 3, 1981

By PAT RICH

North Vancouver
District council is split
over the issue of
whether to allow a
cluster housing project
in the Laura Lynn area
to procede.

- North Shore News

The time of reckoning for

the project comes next week
when council decides
whether to give second and

further readings to the bylaw

allowing the development.
At. a recent pub
hearing, neighbors ex-
pressed concerns about the
‘project and council decided

AT HOLLYBURN SCHOOL

Parents’ protest pays off

Protesting does pay off
— asa group.of West
Vancouver: - parents
discovered last week.

About 20 people attended
the ‘local ‘school - board
mecting Monday to protest
the possible scrapping. ‘Of a.
pre-school: program” at
-Hollyburn Elementary
School.

And Tuesday morning the
Chelsea Housé Parents”
Association was “informed |
‘that the school was not being’
moved, at least for another ©
year.

The controversy ap-
parently grew over -. the -
weekend | ‘when parents,
whose “pre-school aged ~
children attend ~ Chelsea
House © @ “Private schoot

‘Regular $16.98

leasing space at Hollyburn),
heard that
enrolment «might force
Chelsea House to re-locate.

The-. dare | occurance ‘of
increasing enrolment at

‘Hollyburn was attributed to

(the popular’ French Im-

“mersion program.

The..association urged the

‘board not to move the pre- .
‘school to
_ Student

avoid staff and
disruptions, but
“move the offices used by
staff and a parents’ group
~ instead.

Board chairman Lillian
Thiersch said that their
concerns. were. appreciated
but cautioned that they were
based on misinformation
‘rooted in gossip, not fact.

Thiersch said ‘that if any

increasing :

to ‘nefer the matter to

Monday’: 's policy and
planning committee meeting
for more discussion.

At stake is the issue of
whether the 24-unit cluster

housing. project. is: better
than a conventional 17-unit. ©

single-family subdivision.’ °
A major planning study

changes were contemplated,
the parents would be con-
sulted.

native for the site.

prepaicd for. ‘the District
recommends acceptance of
the cluster housing project.
This study impressed a
number of aldermen with its
thoroughness and its con-
clusions.

“I feel better about the
Pp now than I did
earlier,” Alderman Jim Ball

said, noting that from the’

report it appeared as if the
cluster housing would be

better “for the welfare of the
neighbors.”

Alderman John Lakes said
it appeared cluster housing
was the only viable alter-

And they were.
District © schools =.
superintendent Ed Carlin.

called association member -
Janet Berg Tuesday morning .
to say that Chelsea House ;
was staying at Hollyburn’
school —
least.

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“If we're going to back *

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proposal), we might well just
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“The best possible way to ~
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