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Corporation ‘bent over backwards’

RESIDENTS PROTEST
WV SHOPPING MALL

A GROUP of Caulfeild residents is fighting to save its West
Vancouver neighborhood from the onslaught ofa $10 mil-

lion shopping centre.

Approximately 200 Caulfeild
residents signed a petition showing
their disapproval of a Bell Canada
Enterprise Development Corpora-
tion (formerly Daon Development
Corporation) proposal to out a
69,000 square-foot shopping centre
‘into Caulfeild Plateau.

‘James McRoberts, president, of

“ the informal residents’ group, sent
- a letter to residents warning them

that the shopping centre develop-
ment would be ‘‘a major disaster.”*

But vice-president of ‘shopping
centres Don Milligan said the
shopping centre would be 60,000
square feet on the 5.2 acres of
land, and that special buffer zones
of greenery, would be’ planted to

A separate residential areas from the
: ‘site. ,

iATED ricmems

. He; said :-his corporation _ has
er-backwards” to develop

a neighboshood-oriented shopping

But|McRoberts further warned
feild

idents that ‘a project

ee than Westview .

By BARRETT FISHER
News Editor Lo.

fic, including large trucks, van-
dalism, . litter, noise,
crowds, as well as creating a par-
ticularly unpleasant appearance
Caulfeild’s entrance.

“A project of this size is design-

_ ed to attract considerable outside
trade — (it is) not for the conve--

nience of local residents,’
McRoberts continued. “Probably
you, like most of your neighbors,
moved ‘out here’ _to avoid such
commercial areas.”

But Milligan, also a Caulfeild
resident, said he has lived 2%
blocks from the shopping centre
site for the past two years, and he
recognized the need for a local
convenience centre.

‘I’m very sympathetic to people
living in the area wanting it to look
like a first-class development,”
Milligan said.

i

- ABUTTING SITE

But he added thie land use con-
tract, which he/said zoned 5.2

_ acres of the Caulfeild : Plateau,
development as: commercial use, ’
has been in effect since 1978, be- |

smell and.

fore many of the residents moved
into the area.

“There are residents abutting
the site, but some unfortunately
never took the time to find out be-
fore buying their homes,’’ Milligan
said.

But McRoberts said according to
the land use contract, which the
residents hired lawyer W. E.
Ireland of Owen, Byrd and Com-
pany to look over, only 3.5 acres
of land was zoned as commercial
— not 5.2.

Resident Lee Broderick said’ he
and other residents were told ‘‘a
small} community store, maybe a
convenience store with a hairdress-
er’? would be going in.

But Broderick added: ‘‘The
plans changed rather drasticaily.
Caulfeild Plateau has been strip-
ped of trees. We don’t need that —
we've got Save-On Foods and Park

Royal, and another shopping cen- ©

tre planned for Horseshoe’ Bay.
How many do we need? We im-
prove the tax base at the expense
of the people.”

McRoberts said he spoke with
Dundarave and Horseshoe .. Bay
merchants, who expressed concern
that a Caulfeild shopping centre
will have ‘‘a horrendous impact. it
will take a sizeable piece of
business away.’

The shopping centre Proposal

See Mall

NEWS photo Neil Lucente

“gity’s Hospital for, Sick Children. Rebecca will be ndcegolte surgery to correct a heart disorder. The Mount
: Seymour. Lions Ciub, B.C. Tel, Vancouver Pretrial Services and the Westlynn Baptist.Church all pitched-in
: dollars: to help pay for the e mother and a daughter’ 'S expenses for the out- oF province operation. .

Tel; n

involved : ‘in- a’ ” fund-raising :

ymour. -Lions Club and one of -
: a special fund to help the families.
OF two boys in need of liver

Jeff's. co-workers _ Said - there’s

community ‘members wanting to.
help the young family. i
“If they need more I'll be ap-

' proaching the other Lions. clubs
.-on the North Shore,”’ he said.

“People often have to go; to.
another part ofthe province for a
varying number of: (medical)
reasons.

“The North Shore doesn’t re-;
ally have a fund to help out peo-
ple like this,’” he said, suggesting
the community should follow
Nanaimo’s example, which set up

transplants.

Marilyn | said Rebecca’s first,
two’ operations’ were doné in
Vancouver,» but. involved / less:
complicated | surgery.

/ lt was ‘touch and go/ ‘tor. a
while, but she pulled through.
This should be the last one and
then she’ll be pink,”’ she said.”

Marilyn said the doctors can-
not say how long Rebecca will
have to remain at.Toronto Sick
Children’s Hospital, tut once she.
is in stable condition Marilyn
hopes the family can have her

transferred to Vancouver.

3 --Friday, May 2, 1986 ~ North Shore News

NEWS S photo Terry Paters

AMERICAN RUNNERS dash down the final Stretch, Wednesday, to
the United States Pavilion. The joggers ran 3 2,000 mile relay from
southern Oregan to the Expo site. Messages of goodwill from the
Governors of California, Oregon and Washington State and President
Ronald Reagan were carried by the at4letes.

NORTH VANCOUVER school tr trustees ‘voted unanimously;
Tuesday’ night to, approve a 1986-87 operating budget that
will incréase school taxes for the average North. Vancouver
homeowner by $75i in the 1986/87 school year. oe ;

That,’ amount will be spread
across/two tax years, so taxpayers
will pay $30 in: ‘1986 and. $45 in
1987.

This ysar’s school District 44 tax
rate will bes. 50 (or $6.50 per every
$1,000 of assessed property), com-
pared with a 1985 tax rate of 6.2.

‘District 44 secretary-treasurer
Len Berg told trustees the addi-
tional $30 for 1986 translated to a
4.78 per cent increase, which was
less than the 6.15 per cent increase
projected/.in the 1986-87 draft
‘budget he presented March 3.

For 1986, the owner of North
Vancouver's median average

$101,000: home will pay gross’
school taxes of $661.70. That same -

homeowner paid $631.54 in 1985.

' But trustee Dr. Ross Regan said.

because school budgets are based
on a June to June school year, the

real amount of school taxes for the |

school year should be annualized.
‘That total, he said, worked out to
$75,

/ The $56.3 million budget repre-

“sents a $3.1, million increase over

. ” Lifestyles. . bone

Weather:

Friday and Saturda ve
mainly cloudy with a few
"showers. Highs near 14°.

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‘By TIMOTHY REN
"News Reporter

1985-86's 53. 2 million total, :
An additional $661,259: allotted :

District 44 .from . the “provincial .

government in’. its “latest fiscal
framework adjustment reduced an
estimated $114 .average schoo] ‘tax.
increase to $75: over ‘the’ 1986-87.

. school year, a

“Approximately 60 per ‘pede: ‘of
that: allotment is covered® by the
government: ‘from .; general taxes,
while the.-remaining percentage is

~ picked up by local taxpayers. | °

Prior to voting: on ‘the budget,
the board -adopted a budget
amendment’ that will see, the
district’s $122,000 increase™in its

linc of credit for textbooks. (from “
- $272,000 in 1985-86 to’ $394, 000 in,

1986-87) dispersed 50-50 into. the

" general budgets of. kindergarten to

grade seven.and grades 8 to.12 to
offset what. -trustee . Rev. “Roy,
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