A group of Lynn - Valley
residents are ready to “put
our money where our
mouths are,” and pay S50 per
cent of the cost of a
feasibility study in hopes
their alternatives to a
planned devélopment will
win out.

Jim Hurley, 1505 Lynn
Valley Road, addressed
North Vancouver District
council at a public hearing
Monday.

He represented over 90
area residents opposed to
the replacement of the small.
grocery store at 1501 Lynn
Valley Road with a
development that would
include three retail outlets

North Vancouver City
council is considering the
possibility of extending the
railway tunnel beside the
Lonsdale Quay site
sometime in the future.

And for this reason they
have given the City Engineer
permission to meet with a
representative of the British

Columbia Development
Corporation (BCDC) to
allow this to take place.

The extension of the
tunnel from the portal east
of Rogers Avenue to a new
portal between Semisch
Avenue and Forbes Avenue
would not take place for “for
at least 20 to 30 years.”

But because it may take
place, City council wants
BCDC to require buildings in
the Lonsdale quay
development next to the rail
line, to have deeper foun-
dations and a greater set-
back from the rail line.

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About 60 people attended
the hearing. “These people
have signed a petition to
show their clear opposition
and have shown up here
tonight in considerable
numbers,” said Hurley.

“And as a testimony of the
sincerity and good Aaith of
those residents of the cluster
homes immediately adjacent
to the site,” Hurley stated
toward the end of his
speech, “we offer to share
the cost with the developer
of a feasibility study of our
alternatives. We are
prepared to pay 50 per cent

warned that in the future
“delegation upon delegation
of high class taxpayers ” in
townhouses on I
Quay will be complaining
about the noise from the
railway.

What to do with the
railway “is probably the most
serious problem on the site,”
he said.

The Development Cor-
poration is opposed to the
Suggestion because digging
deeper foundations will add
significantly to the cost of
the buildings.

Mayor Jack Loucks said
he was opposed to the
motion because it was a
change in the agreement the
City had already reached
with BCDC.

In other business con-
cerning the Lonsdale Quay
development, council gave
final approval to zoning

bylaws for all 10 sites on the
development.

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Lonsdale .

-..Up to a maximum cost to
us of $700.”

The proposed develop-
ment would include a larger
grocery store, a flower shop
and a third retail outlet not
yet determined.

Protesters objected to the
plan, citing increased traffic,
litter, rowdyism and

devalued property as major
arguments.

As well, they noted there
is no need for more retail
outlets in the area and that it
is premature to proceed with
the project before  con-
sidering the Lynn Valley
Plan, now before the District

advisory planning com-
mittee.

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Admitting. that, “we are
not professional deve-
lopers,” Hurley said his
group had made a general
study and had come up with
an alternative. They would
rather see a garden apart-
ment development on the
site. ,

- “We believe such a garden
apartment development
would overcome all the
objections of the residents,”
said Hurley. He _ also
suggested this alternative
would be better for the
developer on grounds of
economic viability.

Owner Ron Yen, who said
he was not prepared for so
much opposition to the

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project,
prepared to reconsider the
proposal.

Council adjourned the public
hearing
matter back to the policy
and planning committee for
further study. There will be a
further public hearing.

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