320 ‘Taylor Way lease Store robbed A LONE man made off with some quick cash June 17 after robbing 2 North Vancouver video store. The suspect hit the 24 HR Video outlet located at 201-1200 Lonsdale Ave. just before raidnight. The man pushed a female employee into a back room and raided the cash register. The suspect is described as being 2 Caucasian male, approximately 6° tall, 25 to 30 years old, 150 pounds, with dark brown heir. He was wearing a white T-shirt, blue jeans and running shoes. Information regarding this crime may be forwarded to North Vancouver RCMP Const. Lise McKay at 985- 1311. Teen struck A TEEN was injured in West Vancouver on June 19 when he was strack by a car while attempting to cross Marine Drive in a marked pedestrian crosswalb. at 11th Street and Marine Drive. According to a West Vancouver Police spokesman, 16-year-old Jason Hoffman was crossing the street after two vehicles had stopped for him. An oncoming third vehicle changed lanes and struck Hoffman at approxi- mately 5:45 p.m. Hoffman suffered a broken collar bone when he was struck by a limousine. Demetrius George Apostolopoulos, 18, faces a charge of failing to yield to a pedestrian. Photocopier 50’s THE NORTH Vancouver RCMP fraud section is ailer- ting area mercharts to be on the look out for counterfzit Canadian $50 bills. Several of the bills have surfaced in North Vancouver and throughout the Lower Mainland. The pager quality of the bills is poor; they are believed to have been made using a laser photcopier. Many of the bills have a yellowish tinge to the background, and their red color is faded. The paper has 2 slippery, smooth tex- ture. Merchants should hold all suspicious bills and notify the police immediately by calling the fraud section at 985-1311. Youth arrested A 17-YEAR-OLD West Vancouver male faces a charge of theft under $1,000 following a June 20 motor vehicle break and entry. According to a West Vancouver Police spokesman, a West Vancouver homeowner returned to his residence in the 400-biock of Keith Road just before 2 a.m. when he saw two suspects breaking into his parked car. The police were called. Police dog Ferro tracked ezst from a carport into 2 bush area and along a crcek. One of the suspects was located in the bush area. The police recovered some stclen property. The youth is scheduled to appear in West Vancouver provincial court o1 July 15. changed at meeting. A MODIFICATION of the 99-year lease of municipal property at 320 Taylor Way was taken to third reading at West Vancouver District Council’s June 22 meeting. By Maureen Curtis Contributing Writer Gateway Pacific Construction Lid., the developer of the twin towers and townhouse project at «the site, asked for changes to the lease, which was negotiated in 1988, to allow the company to sell the apartment units in the pro- ject’s east tower before the west tower is completed and ready for sale. Acting with advice from municipal solicitor Paul Wilson and a lawyer from Russell & Dumoulin, counci! agreed that the changes were reasonable. But Ald. Andy Danytiu argued that the lega! costs incurred in the negotiation of the changes to the agreement should be borne by Gateway ‘‘since this has been at the instigation of the developer.”” CE WEST VANCOUVER DISTRICT COUNCIL Under the previous agreement, the developer planned to subdivide the property into two separate parcels when one of the two towers was ready for sale. But the two resulting stratifica- tions would have resuited in con- fusion and problems for future residents. The project has been designed as a single integrated develop- ment, which the company felt should oe under the control and management of one strata cor- poration. Under the original agreement, the developer would not have been able to stratify and sell the com- pleted units in the east tower until 1993. Accompanying bylaws created a sewer right-of-way in favor of the district and a telephone right- of-way in favor of B.C. Tel, plus a road dedication that will allow - the municipality to widen Marine Drive and Taylor Way in the future. A 54-UNIT seniors’ equity co-op has been proposed for a two-acre site near Mount Seymour United Church, Sunday, June 28, 1992 - North Shore News - & Seniors’ co-op proposed for Parkgate Drive site Parkgate Dr., in North Vancouver District . A June 17 public hearing before North Vancouver District Council heard little that is likely to prevent the rezoning of the municipally- owned land from single family (RS1) to high-density residential (RH). The site was suggested for assisted housing by the planning and social planning departments in 1988 and designated by council for seniors’ housing in 1990 when Mount Seymour United Church was asked to develop a specific proposal. The church had already formed the Seymour Housing Society, the proponents of the co-op, because of its concern about affordable housing for seniors in the area, Jim Roberts, chairman of the society, told council that the society is separate from the church and run by a 1!0-person board, whose members all live in the Seymour area. Roberts said that the society wanted to balance affordability with livability. “We didn’t want seniors living in conventional apartment blocks but a warm, social environment,”’ he said. Architect John Currie confirm- ed that the site planning and building form were designed to foster social interaction among the residents. The proposed complex consists of two, three-storey triangular buildings, each focused around a covered central atrium and con- nected by a single-storey amenity structure. The average unit size is 900 sq. ft. A covenant registered against the lease will require that the minimun age of co-op members be 55, and staff suggested that council withhold final rezoning approval until the lease arrange- ments are finalized. Planning staff say that the pro- ject will help fill the gap between assisted housing and private sector empty-nester housing. While the units are not subd- sidized, their value will be regu- lated by the co-op association, thereby limiting increases in the cost of shares. The units will, over time, become more affordable relative to the private sector. Staff also told council that a seniors’ project would have little impact on the existing services and traffic patterns in the Seymour area. Susan Tyson, a Mount Seymour told council that she agreed with seniors’ hous- ing for the site. “They won't bring much traf- fic,”’ she said. But two other local residents disagreed with the proposal. Tom Southern asked council to try to involve more people in the neighborhood in the planning process, suggesting that ‘most people pay their taxes and come along for the ride.”’ But under council planning pol- icy the proponents were required to host a public information meeting in April when about 50 people had a chance to ask ques- tions and comment on the pro- posal. “It looks good,”’ said Southern, referring to the project plans, “but I don’t think that people do- ing the planning have’ thought about the property in front of it.” A row of single-family _resi- dences fronting Mount Seymour Parkway lies immediately to the south of the proposed project. Another Parkway resident, John Bennister, argued that there was already enough high-density Parkway resident, By Martin Millerchip Contributing Writer housing in the area and asked council to move the complex fur- ther back. 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