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North Shore News —

Last week West Vancouver. council formally.
received a plan for a housing development
covering 1,160 acres of forest-covered mountain- —
side north of the Upper Levels between Cammeray
Park Estates and Cypress Creek Park. It made me
wonder whether some:of our elected representa-
tives ever read | anything other than development

plans.

If not, it certainly isn’t for
lack of authoritativg reading |
material relevant to. West
Vancouver’s present. and
future condition.

on its property west of the
enlarged shopping centre.

_ When that happens -- and

' assuming reasonably full

Earlier this year the
Greater Vancouver Regional
District board, of which West
Van is a member, issued
10-year. growth recommen-.
dations for the 17 municipal-
ities it represents. West Van
was one of the three

communities in which the -—-

GVRD calied for a marked

slowdown in the growth rate.

MAXIMUM 44,000

The present population of
the municipality is 39,500,
and if the current. trend
continued (by no means a
foregone
figure would rise to 48,770
during the next decade.

The GVRD in its: wisdom
said that. was too much.

Instead, it recommended 4

maximum 1986 population of

_ 44,000 -- just 4,500 more

bodies west of the Capilano
_than we have now.

The plan presented to

’ West Van council last week

proposes an-eventual 2,915
new housing units clustered

on the mountainside up to -
_ the 1200. ft.

‘level. These
2,915 new units, it’s sug-
_gested, would house up to
8,000 people.

That’s already 3,500 more

than the 1986 growth targ
set by the GVRD. And Ire iby
no means all.

At the same council
meeting British Pacific Pro-
perties slipped in, for con-
sideration, an ‘‘experimen-
tal?’ scheme of its own for a
39-unit cluster housing de
velopment on land it owns
above -the Upper Levels
between [5th Street and

. Lawson Creek.

Spokesmen_ for the BPP
plan indicated that, if such a
pilot development were suc-
it could: be the
forerunner of further similar

mountainside developments. |

' NEW HIGHRISES —

‘Then, of course,” there's

Park Royal. South and the
adjacent lands undcr_ the
jurisdiction of the Squamish
Indian Band.

The doubling of the size of
the shopping centre will
inevitably: bring its ‘own
quota of new West Van

. residents. In addition, the
Squamish: Band apparently -

intends to develop highrises'

similar to Park Royal Towers —

conclusion) the- only a little more than, the.
2.13... children - per. woman’

occupancy -- we would be
talking about a further
excess population of several
thousands. But this raises
yet another intriguing ques-
tion. -

BABY BOOMOVER

Just what will the occu-

pancy rate be, 10 years from ~

now, for all these grandiose
new drawing-board
schemes? _ ,

The 1945-55 “baby boom” .
is over.- At the moment

Canada has almost: reached —~

Zero Population Growth --

needed to maintain the

“population at its Present

level.

By as early 2 as 1979 > the:

15- 19 year-old age group will —

have started declining by.

7,000 a year, according to .
Statistics Canada -- and by

20,000. a year in 1980.

Already, this coming fall,.

West Van school enrolments -
(like those elsewhere) are

dropping.

Highrise condominiums in
Ambleside. are now hanging
out ‘‘for rent’’ notices rather -
than be stuck with empty,
unsold suites. Meanwhile,

Ottawa proposes to.cut back -

quite drastically on immigra-

. tion.

So even if West Vancou- °

verites decided to opt for an
unlimited increase in popu-

lation, whete.. would.‘ the:; ;
thousands of new bodies be % 4 J
coming from?
ATTRACTIONS:
DESTROYED ©
In point of fact 1 many West

Vancouverites will tell you .

they need any further popu-
lation increase at all like a,
hole in the head. They’ say
the influx of people and cars
over recent years is already ‘

' destroying many of = the

things that attracted them to

_ make their home there in the.
first place.

All of which makes one —
wonder why council should |

even be contemplating this |
mountainside scheme,
which, in itself alone, could
almost double the population
growth considered advisable
by the GVRD. If _ the

‘customers for it materialized, -

that is. And what if it went |
ahead, and they didn’t...?

These wc some‘ of the |
questions —

_Property-owners

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~ . will doubtless be putting to
= . ‘Mayer Jones and the authors

of the plan, G. Sutton Brown
Consultants, when they meet

with them later this month.

. Potential “developers will
be just as inierested’in the
answers as the ratepayers...

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