3owen resid
ied over
plan to ban

A BOWEN ISLAND resi-
dent has launched a petition
against West Vancouver
District's latest attempt to
curb overnight parking in
Horseshoe Bay.

By Anna Marie D’Angelo
News Reporter

Julie Ovenell-Carter, a Bowen
island resident for more than
three years, said a district
engineering. report that recom-
mends banning overnight parking
at Horseshoe Bay would make life
extremely difficult for Bowen
{stand residents.

Currently, anyone can park a
maximum of three hours between
7 am, and 7 pum. with ao restric-
tions after those hours,

Ovenell-Carter said hundreds of
Bowen Island residents’ will sign
the petition, which was signed by
100 island residents in one day.

“What this basically means is
that I will become a prisoner of
my island at certain times.... It
gets ludicrous when you think
what 1 will have to do because of
this,’ said Ovenel!-Carter.

She said many Bowen Island
residents leave their cars at Horse-
shoe Bay and take the water taxi
home alter attending late-evening
‘events off the island.

The water taxi runs at 11:30
p.m. and 12:30 a.m. on various
days.

Ovenell-Carter said the Horse-
shoe Bay area lacks sufficient
parking for people who want to
pay and West Vancouver will hurt
Bowen Island residents if the new
parking regulations are accepted.

District senior engineer Gordon
MacKay, who wrote the parking
report, said only Horseshoe Bay
residents will be allowed to. park
in residential areas from midnight
to 6 a.m. if council accepts the
report’s recommendations.

The report will _ probably be
considered during the next council ’
meeting on Monday, April 19,

said MacKay.

Mayor Mark Sager. said council

asked. for the report, in part,
because of the ‘‘nightmare’’ with

overnight sailings last summer.

The BC Ferry Corp. announced
earlier this week that overnight
sailings from Horseshoe Bay
would be cancelled for this year.

“We are not trying to make life
difficult for any individuals... But
in fairness to the people who live
in Horseshoe Bay, it is not a
parking fot fer other com-
munities,” said Sager.

Sager said a parking lot
operated by the municipality on
Marine Drive, about two blocks
up the hill from the ferry termi-
nal, is rarely full.

“Our staff is working towards
ensuring that Horseshoe Bay sim-
ply doesn’t become a parking lot
for the BC Ferry Corporation,"
said Sager.

“Certainly parking right) in
front of people’s homes in Horse-
shoe Bay is going to be limited, |
would think,"’ said Sager.

He said he had a meeting plan-
ned later this month with provin-
cial Transport and Highways
Minister Art Charbonneau con-
cerning parking related to ferry
traffic.

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