EER mM fae RA noe ae INS RAE ASMA RT AMEN EE AIT ITM An ne Ne tre | | | NEWS BRIEFS Police ticket rig A TRACTOR-traiter truck carrying a load of wrecked cars proved to be a wreck itself when the West Van- couver Police pulled the rig over at the Eagle Ridge brake-testing station along the Upper Levels Highway Wednesday afternoon. West Vancouver Police Sgt. Chris Holmes said the Police received a call fram the Squamish RCMF that a tractor-trailer carrying a load of wrecked cars was travel- ling south along the Squamish Highway and had been dropping bits of scrap froin its load slong the way. West Vancouver Police pulled the truck over at Eagle Ridge and found the truck and trailer 10 be defective. Holmes said the trailer had a cracked frame and in- sufficient ground clearance. The tie-downs were defective and so were the brakes of the truck. The driver of the rig was charged with naving defective brakes, failing to maintain a vehicle to proper standards and for having defective tie-downs. He was ordered to leave the vehicle at Eagle Ridge un- til he could find a way of transporting it to a vehicle in- spection station, Court appearance A VANCOUVER man has been ordered to stand trial in Supreme Court on several breck and entry charges fol- lowing an Aug. 7 prelimisary hearing in North Ven- couver provincial court. - David Glenn Hurst, 32, faces two counts of break and ‘entry with intent tc commit a crime. He is also charged with being in possession of a break-in instrument. The charges stem from incidents alleged to bave oc- curred on May 23 and May 24 in North Vancouver. Hurst will make his first appearance in Supreme Court on Aag. 28 to set a trial date. Suspect sought WEST VANCOUVER Police are searching for a ‘‘scruf- fy’? looking bank robbery suspect, following a heist Wednesday morning at a bank in Ambleside. According to 2 police spokesman, a lone male suspect entered the Bank of Montreal, located at 1434 Marine Drive, at approximately 10:30 a.m. : The man approached a teller and produced a note . demanding money. The teller complied and the suspect fled on foot with an undetermined amount of cash. He did not produce a weapon duriag the robbery. The suspect is desccibed as a white male with dark brown hair, 2 fcll beard with moustache, spproximately 5°7” in height and weighiog about 150 pounds. He was wearing 2 dark colored jacket and a dark cap at the time of the robbery. - leformation regarding this incident may be forwarded to West Vancouves Police at 922-4141. GVRD seeks artifacts THE GREATER Vancouver Kegienal District parks branch is carrying cut an artifact inventory study is Lynn Headwaters Regional Park, North Venconver. GVRD project vvordinater. Sze Ellen Fast is looking for information ircm area hikers who might know the whereabouts of pre-1960 artifacts such as horseshoes, Japanese tea cups, saw blades and pieces of machinery. Historical information, personal anecdotes and histor- icaj photographs are welcome. Contact Fast at 224-5739. NVC unveils Art in Public Places winners RICHARD WOJCIECHOWSKIL is the winner of the City of North. Vancouver and.North Shore. Arts Commission Rogers Plaza Art in Public Places Compzxtition. The winning works, part of a : By Evelyn Jacob Seniors complex considered A PLAN to build affordable seniors’ housing is being further considered by North Vancouver City Council after proponents of the plan appealed to them Mon- day. By Pamela Lang Contributing Writer City staff had recommended re- jecting the plan for a 42-unit complex on the 200 block of East 23rd Street because the proposed density is much higher than that allowed for in the current Official Community Plan (OCP). The proposed complex would be built on five lots with a 58-units-per- acre density, rather than the eight units per acre now allowed by the OcP. A change in the OCP and zon- ing from single-family residential to multi-unit would also con- tradict the recommendations of a recent Courthouse Area land use study. But, instead of rejecting the proposal outright, council agreed to have their social planner ‘“‘work with the applicant (Courtyard | Homes Developments Ltd.) and concerned residents to develop the concept of seniors’ housing for the site.”’ Similar applications for the site have been rejected by city council, according to an August 7 report by assistant director of planning Richard White. A 22-unit townhouse project was submitted, then withdrawn in 1987; a 20 to 30 unit seniors’ complex was rejected in 1989; and a 42-unit seniors’ development was rejected in 1990. Courtyard Homes has consulted with the Lionsview Seniors Social Planning Society, the Silver Har- bour (seniors’) Centre, as well as area residents including the Courthouse Area Residents’ Association (CARA). The new plan has received sup- port, including a letter from CARA stating their approval of the ‘project if two conditions are met: *that the complex remains tental only for a minimum of 14 years; and 2 that 23rd Street be made into a cul-de-sac by the installation of a traffic barrier between St. Georges and St. Andrews Avenues. ‘Courtyard Homes has agreed to both conditions. A study team, hired by Court- yard Homes to develop the pro- ject, appeared before council Monday and presented a report based on their research. North Vancouver City can ex-. pect a 1,500 to 2,000-unit shortage of affordable seniors’ housing by the turn of the century, said report co-author Dr. Alan Ar- tibise, director ef the UBC School of Community and _ Regional Planning. 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