8 — Sunday, November 16, 1997 — North Shore News

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MAIL BOX
input on Whitby plan

’ Dear Editor:
On Monday, Nov. 17, the public hearing
into new zoning for the Whitby Estates will
continue (West Vancouver Council meeting
7:45 p.m.).

Inforniation on some of the presentations
to date, including the children’s on the Tailed
Frog, can be scen on the following website:

www. faximum.com/westvan.d/whitby

While many wish to alter the proposal or
mitigate its impact, that does not mean com-

_ plete opposition to the development.

Since this is a change to the Official
Community Plan it is important for people to
know that council has full power to accept,
change, or reject what is proposed, and fur-

. thermore they can assist councillors in their

deliberations by letting them know their views
on:

@ development such as driveways, backyards,
structures up to four feet abore the 1,200-foot
level;

@ protection of the tailed frog habitat, creek
preservation arcas;

increased density and traffic congestion

@@ water supply;

@ compensation to West Vancouver for the
seven acres of municipal land within the pro-
posed subdivision.

Carolanne Reynolds
West Vancouver

East meets west in box tales

Dear Editor: .

On a recent trip by
automobile from Ambleside
to Deep Cove, I drove past
both Park Royal in West
Vancouver and the new Real
Canadian Superstore in the
Lynnwood area of North
Vancouver, .

Each is in the development
process and the similarities are
startling..."

Both _ developments are
close to an arterial highway
and inlet crossing.

Both represent a mutti-
million-dollar expansion of a
major retail chain.

Both are on Indian land at

Both serve, to the west and
east respectively, a growing
area of affluent households
whese car-driving shoppers
will no doubt cause a major
change in traffic volume and
patterns as well as have an
impact on the businesses
already established in the
nearby areas.

Here the similarities end.

It is interesting to compare
their response from the local
citizenry.

From West Vancouver,
there is an avalanche of
expressions of outrage, over-
flow protest meetings in the
high school theatre, letters to
the local press, tirades from

business groups and sabre-rat-
ding by council members.

In North Vancouver, there
does not seem to be even a
ripple of opposition to a
development which houses its
flagship tenant in a structure
whose architecture is based on
a 1947 Ukrainian tractor fac-
tory complete with war sur-
plus grey exterior. A random
check-up of a few locals estab-
lished that they can hardly
wait for the opening.

Rudyard Kipling stated,
“East is east and west is west.”
Is it not now time for the
nwain to meet?

James Thomson
West Vancouver

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discourse
not drivel

Dear Editor:

Regarding Charles
MacLean’s Nov. 5 column
(We are serfs to a new social
class).

We are not fools and cow-
ards. We, the residents of the
North Shore, are a modern,
sophisticated and intelligent
group of people who do not
deserve such small-minded
drivel. If the North Shore
News can’t publish some
meaningful discourse, ¥d
prefer the paper was not
delivered to my bome. Pm
tired of carryirg it straight to
the recycle bin.

Elizabeth Scremin
West Vancouver

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