16 — Wednesday, October 2, 1996 — North Shore News layor blasted at By Martin Millerchip Contributing Writer “VOTE yourselves a tremendous raise for listening to all of this!” Fred Rabiner’s tongue-in- cheek comment to North Vancouver District councillors Monday (he also noted he didn’t want his taxes to go up) seemed particularly apt as the Cates Landing public hearing ground into the fourth hour of .what would prove to be another midnight meeting at district hall. The second night of the ‘reconvened hearing proved even longer than the first as Seymour residents fought hard to convince council that there was no “silent, majority” in favor of United Properties’ development proposal for the Dollarton waterfront. Certainly, a much larger proportion of the speakers from the two nights spoke against the plan to build 179 units of apartments on the Noble Towing and Mackenzie Barge. and Marineways sites Cates controversy quotes: SELECTED quotes from nine hours of presentations to the Cates landing rezoning hearing. On the number of development proposals for the site in the last eight years: "In criminal law ‘No’ is supposed to mean no. In the district, one gets the impression that it means: ‘Mr. Developer, why don’t you try again in six months’ time.” -~ Eric Andersen 4 On protecting waterfront views and access for all resi- ents: "In my lifetime I have seen areas of natural beauty lost to pre- sent and future generations mainly because of careless development, "What would I think of a theatre management that installed its seats with the highest elevation closest to the stage?” ~ (80-year-old) Jean Craig “If this development is not approved what will we be left with? An industrial arca with no waterfront access for our children.” — Barry Bidens “Apartment buildings constitute a Scenic Drive’? Apartment buildings constitute a ptew?” -— Margaret Morgan On the polluted nature of the industrial land: “Maybe they need a new bylaw in the district — ‘Thou shalt not permit thy property to offend thy neighbors.’ Why aren’t you as a council saying ‘Get the mess cleaned up now’?” — Margaret Morgan On potential mixed-use development of the site: “At the last public hearing, people talked of a restaurant on the site. At the Public Inforization Meeting in March 96, the restau- rant was described as a ‘Bistro.’ Now it is a concession stand, At the rate that it is being downsized, by the time it is built, it wiil be a Mr. Tubesteak.” — John Addie On the development’s projected height and United’s attempts to accommodate view corridors for Dollarton Highway residents: “Tp looks great if you ignore the fact that it runs so much fur- ther west than their original assurances that to see the shoreline I would have to nail a post to my deck and perch out there like a par- rot. “And then, on showing the plans submitted to council to the surveyor he states that these were not the figures he was given and that the whole demonstration is out by eight feet. — Rebecca Sjoblom And while many of the pre- sentations were models of log- ical argument, the fire and passion came from those opposed. Rache. Point resident David Sadler spoke on behalf of Save Our Shores, a commu- nity action group that was cre- ated in 1988 to fight the first of three multi-family propos- als for the site that district council has sent to public hearing in the last eight years, Sadler took dead aim at Mayor Murray Dykeman and district planning staff for fail- ing to endorse the Waterfront Task Force (WTF) recom- mendation against .medium and highrise development on the Dollarton waterfront. Said Sadler: “If council was- n’t prepared to accept the results, why didn’t you explain this at the outset and not waste everybody’s time and money? “Council’s shameful action on this matter along with (planner) Jim Masterton’s report is something that will never be forgotten. “I am deeply distressed with what has transpired here in the district by allowing this proposal to come back and waste everybody's valuable time ... and I believe a large part of this blame must be directed at his honor Mayor’ Dykeman for allowing these cvents to have unfolded. “In my mind you have dis-; honored the democratic and -. public processes here in the District of North Vancouver.” . United vice-president Roger. ° Moors later told the News he. was sorry his company's pro2” posal had “caused council to ber the victims of abuse.” skins but nobody should have to take that kind of abuse,” said Moors. ae He described the “Scy-: mour anti-develope~ faction” as stronger than anywhere else in the Lower Mainland but hoped “logic would prevail in: the final analysis.” Sadler and many other.’ speakers over the two nights. See Plan page 1. “I’m sure they've got thick | . on Dollarton Highway. MERCEDES BENZ OWNERS If you wish to sell your vehicle directly to Mercedes Benz or if you would like a current evaluati 95 WEST BROADWA !MeRINESDRIVI aper Is On Sale! EVERY INSTOCK ' WALLPAPER * PATTERN & BORDE. 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