‘North Vancouver District
Council could “send up
reconsidering- a decision
made at last week's meeting
not to change street parking
arrangements for visitors of

the Woodcroft strata
complex on the west side of
Capilano River.

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Traffic technician Norm

Nikkel has told the News —

that members of the strata
councils have come up with
some new suggestions on
coping with the area’s
parking problems and
council members may wish
to consider them.
Yo.

In addition, Woodcroft

representative Doug Astbury

has since complained that’.

council was not made aware
of certain foul-ups in a
sample traffic count for the
area when making its
decision.

Woodcroft residents want
residents-only parking
restrictions on the streets
leading to their bridge across
the river to be quashed,
complaining there are no
parking facilities for visitors

-of the complex to leave their

cars.-

They | claim “that,

frequently all their available .

guest parking bays are filled
and visitors are having to
search for parking facilities a
long walk from Woodcroft's
only entrance while_parking
Spaces marked for residents
only on surrounding streets
are often unused.

Council, in a decision
deferred from the June 25
meeting, agreed that they
could see no reason for a
change in the parking
arrangements on nearby
streets, and that Woodcroft
will have to. find other
solutions. _

The District jointly

conducted a traffic count
with Woodcroft guards of
the

number of visiting
vehicles turned away June 1
and two.

MIX UP
Because of a mix up over

the need to take licence
numbers of the rejected

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- parking pro lems

cars, the survey showed that
only. one vehicle had been
turned away on each day.

Astbury says he told

Nikkel that the correct

figure of rejected cars far.

June 2 had been 22, that the
traffic technician had agreed

‘that was an accurate figure

and that mayor Don Bell had
also been informed but
council was not aware of it
when rejecting the residents’
application.

“Surely we wouldn't have .

spent the taxpayers’ money
or wasted our time if we only
had a turnaway of” one
vehicle per weekend. It was
22 vehicles turned away and
the following weekend it was
28,” he insists. !

Nikkel says he doubts
whether council members
were unaware of the change
in survey results and that he
feels they made the decision
not to change parking
arrangements in spite of
those results.

His advice to Astbury is:
“Perhaps what he ’ should do

the seniors’ cheque for

is phone some of the -_

aldermen and see if they -
were familiar there were
more cars turned away that
‘day. Who knows, perhaps

they -might reconsider the |

whole thing."

But he commented on the
difference in survey results:
“That still doesn’t mean
there was a parking
problem, because our
studies e that night show
there plenty of on-street
par! available for those
turned away.

Even so, he said Astbury
had since come up with
some other proposals that
Nikkel would have liked to
have been considered before
the decision was made and
which might justify another
look at the problem. |

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- and have. offered to. lease
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Frank Warburton, chairman Every day our
of the long term cost “ values area ‘sight -
reduction committee, said: for your eyes! ..
“I think we should wait until eee eee
long term policy is formed.” *

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Board still can’t decide what “face up ‘to the» ‘question’

to do about the long vacant without guidarice from their

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partially: destroyed by fire

At least ‘three. private §
including two
‘schools, urgently need space

Superintendent Rod:

‘Wickstrom to update district

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But trustee David Craig
said later: “I’m concerned
that the long term. cost

reduction committee is Park Royal :

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