May 31, 1992 48 pages Office, Editorial 985-2131 Council votes 4-3 to allow ‘acility on Maplewood site despite location concerns A CONTROVERSIAL zoning proposal in North Vancouver area passed neighborhood pub Maplewood industrial for a District's second and_ third readings in a split 4-3 vote Monday night at North Van- couver District Council. Plans for the small two-storey pub on Spicer Road just south of the Dollarton highway east of Seymour Riv had come under fire at a public hearing two weeks ago from adjacent business owners who claimed the proposed land use did not suit the nature of an industrial area. Several owners also raised the issue of drinking on the job and the inherent dangers of alcohol in an industrial workplace. But Ald. Ernie Crist disagreed. ive people credit for their in- 64 What is the right place? In four years on council I have yet to find the right one. 99 — Ald. Rick Buchols telligence and responsibilities,”’ he said. Crist also said that despite the proposed site’s proximity to the Lynnwood and Coach House inns **it is quite isolated."’ Ald. Joan Gadsby agreed with Crist that the site was isolated, but she said the isolation would encourage people to drive to the pub and thereby increase traffic congestion and area access prob- lems. **F was opposed to this applica- tion from the beginning, and my d hasn't changed,"' Gadsby said. Ald. Jim Cuthbert cited the lack of public transit, hazardous adja- cent environmenis and incom- patibility with the neighborhood as reasons to oppose the pub ap- plication. **On balance, while it has same merit, it is not truly a neighborhood pub, because it is By Martin Millerchip Contributing Writer not in a residential area,’’ said Cuthber! Ald. nice Harris compared the proposed Maplewood pub's location with that of the Pember- ton Station pub, and she said that she preferred the open access to Pemberton Station and its foca- tion within easy walking distance of a residential neighborhood. “Spicer Road is not a place, as a woman, you would walk to,"’ Harris said. “This is the wrong place for a pub. There must be another location, but this is not the one.”’ ‘What is the right place?*’ tesponded Ald. Rick Buchols. “In my four years on council | have yet to find the right one."" Buchols said he did not agree with planners who tried to transplant the European tradition of a focal pub within walking distance of every neighborhood. He favored the proposed site's lack of impact on residential neighbors. Buchols added that he would not want a pub near his home and doubted whether neighbors of The Raven were pleased with that pub’s location. Mayor Murray Dykeman cust the deciding vote in favor of the Maplewood pub. Speaking to the issue of alcohol in the workplace, Dykeman said, “You cannot protect people from being themselves.’* Dykeman said the decision had been a difficult one, but conclud- ed that ‘the location itself can be supported.”* But Maicotm McLaren, a man- ager at rby Allied Shipbuilders Lid., said he was disappointed in council's decision to approve the pub application. “We were very surprised. At the public hearing we were at it seemed that most of the people were against it, except for a few tingers brought in,’’ said “lm = very surprised, when unis is anti-drink- ing driving week.” He added that the pub’s owners plan to provide outdoor seating, but said the only view patrons will have is of a nearby te recycling plan Crenna on sun sense for Summer Fashion: 13 Display Advertising 980-0511 Classifieds 986-6222 Distribution 986-1337 THE COLLINGWOOD School CounterAttack Committee arranged a mock accident Friday near the school. The drinking-driving awareness scenario involved a car driven by a man returning from an all-night drinking party. The car struck two students. The bogus alcohol-related ac- cicent was followed by a schoo! assembiy. Sarah Jarvis, 16, volunteered to be one of the ac- cident victims. The Collingwood Counter Attack group recently won a gold medal at the iCBC Youth Traffic Safety Awards event.