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HUNDREDS OF Braemar Road residents took to the street

Sunday

to protest a planned road link between East

Braemar and Dempsey roads in North Vancouver District.

And while Upper Lonsdale resi-
dents push for North Vancouver
District to lay off on plans to con-
nect East Braemar and Dempsey
roads, residents feeling the traffic
pinch in Lynn Valley and along
29th Street want Council to lay on
the new asphalt’ for @ second
east-west link.

The proposed connector is part
of district plans to build 282 homes
in the North Lonscale-Kilmer

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By MICHAEL BECKER
News Reporter

Creek area. Initial plans called for
426 homes.

Although the connector road has
been on the district’s agenda for
over 20 years, Louis De Spirt has
spent the past 12 years living on
29th Street watching his lifestyle
take a tumble.

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Said De Spirt: ‘‘Since I've been
here, the volume has increased 40
to 50 per cent. The Tempe Heights
development in the city brought in
200 to 250 homes and nothing was
done to ease the traffic.”

He estimates at least 50 per cent
of residents who spoke at the re-
cent public meeting on the
Braemar-Dempsey link-up — issue
supported the concept. Wellington
Drive residents, Boundary
Ratepayers and the Lynn Valley
Conununity Association all spoke
in favor of the proposed link.

De Spirt said the Boundary

Ratepayers group represents homes
covering both sides of 29th Street
from Lonsdale to Lynn Valley.

The Boundary group argues the
lifestyle and well-being of the
estimated 1,200 to 1,500 residents
living near 29th Street between
Lonsdale Avenue and Lynn Valley
Road have been seriously deeraded
by a significant increase in traffic
and noise pollution along 29th
Street, currently the only east-west
through street between Lonsdale
and Lynn Valley.

“Further delays or a phasing-in
would only add = confusion and

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raise false hopes in the minds of
residents who have bought homes
on a designated arterial roadway,
knowing fully the implications in-
volved,’’ De Spirt told council at
the Jan. 19 public meeting.

Wellington Drive resident Frank
Storey considered buying a house
on Braemar in 1971 but decided to
buy along Wellington when he
learned of plans for a through-
road on Braemar.

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