PROPOSED LONSDALE QUAY TOWER NV City Hal NORTH VANCOUVER City Hall has been inundated with letters protesting the construction of a 20-storey apartment building at the foot of Lonsdale. In the two weeks since council decided to consider rezoning part of Lonsdale Quay to allow the high-rise development, city hall has received Jetters from 23° residents including one from the Insurance Corporation of B.C. “Yo owish to repister my total dissatisfaction with the proposal to build a high rise at Lonsdale By KAREN GRAM Contributions Writer Quay.” said Margaret MeGuire in her letter. Edo not want to see the waterfront area of North Van- couver hecome another concrete Jungle as exists in West Vine couver.”" EL. J. Dobinson., a resident of SQUAMISH CONSTRUCTION Highway to close 4 hours per day THE SQUAMISH Highway will be shut down for four hours a day, not seven hours as had been originally propos- ed. The latest decision from High- ways Minister Cliff Michael on the troubled roadway will see it shut down from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Monday through Friday, beginning Monday. Michael said the closures were the best temporary solution to allow some uninterrupted blasting and safety work on the four-lane project. But he would not rule out the pessibility of a ferry service being established between Horseshoe Bay and Porteau Cove for the remain- ing nine years of road construction planned. The highways minister was to receive a complete report by Thursday ‘‘on the implications and complications of a ferry shuttle.” Michael announced Tuesday that the provincial government will not build a highway through the North Shove’s Capilano Watershed to Britannia Beach as an_alter- native traffic route. The announcement was wel- comed by Greater Vancouver Water District engineers who had opposed the plan on the grounds that it would jeopardize Van- couver’s water supply from North Shore reservoirs. In a previous News story on the watershed road proposal, Greater Vancouver Regional District spokesman Bud Elsie said the GVRD “‘is unalterably opposed to the idea and has been repeatedly opposed for the past 30 years."’ The 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. closure will last until mid-December; ‘‘but what happens after that still re- mains to be seen,’’ said Michael. There also will be minor delays be- tween 8:30 and 9:30 a.m., and 2:30 Weather: Friday, cloudy becoming sunny. Highs near 13°C. Saturday, mostly sunny. and 3:30 p.m. The highway will be open all day on Memorial Day (Nov. 11} and on Thursday. Nov. 26, for expected U.S. Thanksgiv- ing Day traffic. Michael said short-term and long-term plans for the highway will be revealed in about three weeks. West Vancouvei/Howe MLA John Reynolds said four-hour closure is the method by far, for now. “Any longer closures would severely affect businesses*’ at both ends of the highway, he said. Original highways department plans calied for shutting down the highway from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The four-hour decision was made after 600 road users were polled, as well as civic officials and business operators in Whistler. Reynolds said they were pleased to have been consulted on such an important decision. Michael said the changes ‘reflect extensive consu! viions ... with residents, businesses, trans- port companies, local elected rep- resentatives and other highway users. (We) hope these hours will pose less inconvenience for motorists and the communities af- fected.” Work on parts of the Squamish Highway is costing tens of thou- sands of dollars per metre, and the current schedule of intermittent daytime blasting and road closures is projected for at feast nine years. Michael has called it ‘‘the most expensive per-kilometre highway in the province.” Reynolds told the News that all possible proposals were being reviewed, Sound the best INDEX Classified Ads... Doug Collins.... Editorial Page... Entertainment... Home & Garden. Horoscopes ..... Bob Hunter....... Lifestyles......... Mailbox.......... TV Listings....... What's Going On.. Ponsdale Asenug. says the pro- posal will only benefit a few and urged council to “reject it and give more uttention to such issues that benefit the majority of people.” “Tk seems quite Judicrous to provide the North Shore with this type of building for uny purpose whatsoever,’ Dobinson said. Vice-president of ICBC Graham Reid said the company is ‘serious- ly concerned about the concessions that the city is considering with respect to the allowable develop- ment on this site. 3} friday, October 16. 1987 - North Shore News “Not only does the proposed project block our views. it tras a profound overshadowing — cffect dug te its location, bulk and height," said Reid. A public meeting, called to hear residents’ concerns about the development, sas scheduled ta oe cur Teesday night, but it was sud- denly cancelled after council Jearn- ed proper notification procedure had not been followed. Mavor Jack Loucks said two commercial businesses at the Quay had not received notice of the swamped with protest public meeting and that since such notice 1s @ legal requirement prior to any public meeting, Loucks regrettably cancelled the meeting and ordered staff to reschedule it. At the Sept. 28 council meeting, council voted S-2 to consider amending the community plan, which prohibits construction of any building over six storeys along the waterfront. Aldermen Stella Jo Dean and Ralph Hall opposed the motion but Ald. Alan Blair called it ‘critical to the lower Lonsdale development." NEWS photo Terry Pators MOYE OVER, Godzilla! Iguana madness has attacked Hillside Secondary School in West Vancouver. It took this group of Grade 12 students three weeks to make the papier mache monster before suspending it from the roof «¢: the school Wednesday morning. Pictured are pranksters (front row, | to r) Chris Wilson, Adrian Lee, Andrew McTaggart (back row, i to r) Shaun Deans, Cedric Burgers and Steven Bird. North Van mentally ill home defended the regional coordinator of Psychiatric Care Facilities in the Fraser Valley and North Shore, told council North From page 1 property values. The majority of the studies found values were not adversely affected. Lineen Webh, another close res- ident said she feared for the safety of children in the area. She said because residents will change occa- sionally, there is no guarantee the ones living there will always be non-violent. “T have a son who delivers newspapers along 26th and I will be very nervous about that,” Webb said. ‘*Will J let my children sleep in a tent in the yard in the summer? I can tell you right now, no [ won't.”’ Webb said Jaworsky told her a resident at her Deep Cove facility hallucinates and sometimes screams out. ‘‘I don’t want screams disturbing the neighborhood at night. How will we discern them from legitimate cries for help?’ she asked. David Turner, director of the North Shore Community Mental Health Centre, said he has sereen- ed 35 potential residents of the fa- cility to ensure “the right type of resident moves in.” Barney Usborne, Vancouver had been allocated funding for a nine-bed facility as part of a special project to move 60 patients out of Riverview. He said the ‘North Shore “has been grossly underbedded for years.” According to Davidson's report to council, the bed to population ratio for North Vancouver City is .34 per thousand compared to 3.21 per thousand in Maple Ridge. -