A PROPOSED renters’
aid agency for the
North Shore got only.
lukewarm support from

North Vancouver City.

council Monday night.

Council endorsed
North Shore
Association’s (NSTA) ap-
plication for federal funding
for the project, but refused
to give out any of its own
money to help the NSTA get
the agency started. Council
did agree to refer the request
to the 1982 Grants Com-
mittee, however, which
would be too late for the
proposed January 4, 1982
start-up of the project.

NSTA President Richard
Blackburn asked council for
$12,000 to help rent offices
and hire five full-time staff
for the agency, but most
council members seemed to
think there wouldn't be
enough work for five people
anyway.

Referring: to a_ similar
agency in Burnaby that has a
staff of four including NSTA
Vice-President Greg
Richmond, Aiderman Gary

the

Tenants ~~

Renters’ agenc

‘Payne said, “Obviously they

can’t keep their tenant
advocates busy because one
of them (Richmond) spends
all his time in North Van-
couyer.”

Payne said he would
support an office with a staff
of two people, however.

But Blackburn argued the
agency needed a staff of five
because the NSTA's case
load has become —over-
whelming, and “there is a
desperate need to provide an
advisory service to North
Shore tenants.”

“Some landlords have run
amok and declared open
season on your con-
stituents,” he warned.

The NSTA is applying for
a $54,327 grant from the
federal government to start
and run the agency for one
year. Blackburn and
Richmond, who said the
agency will be completely
independent from the
tenants association, plan to
approach North Vancouver
District and West Van-
couver councils within the
next few weeks, asking for
supplementary funding fronr
them.

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However, Richmond said
the project will go ahead,

even without municipal
funding —- as long as the
federal money comes
through.

The agency, if approved,
would help both landlords

and tenants with housing -

problems, the NSTA said in
its application. Among other
things, it would provide a
housing register with in-

formation on available
rental housing.
Richmond said local

Members of Parliament Ron
Huntington and Chuck Cook

and their party support the ~

proposal.
Alderman Frank Marcino
was worried that the

municipalities might end up
paying the full cost of the
agency after the first year,
since the federal grant would
only be for a year.

If North Shore renters
want such an agency, he
said, then each renter should
pay $5 a year to support it.

Alderman Bil Sorenson
said the City was funding
enough agencies as it was.
He also said he was con-
cerned about “events of the

Suites referendum eyed

North Vancouver City
Alderman Bill Sorenson
thinks the City should hold a
referendum this fall on
allowing revenue suites in
private homes.

Sorenson, who has long
campaigned in favor of
allowing homeowners to rent
out suites in their houses,

WES-TE

made the suggestion at
Monday's council meeting.
Director of Development
and Licensing Services
Frank Morris said in a report
that legalizing the suites
would result in the eventual
disappearance of the single
family home in North
Vancouver, as it would, in

effect, turn all single-family
zones into duplex zones.

There are about 775 illegal
suites in the City now, he
said in the report.

Sorenson wants a
referendum to be held on the
‘issue at the same time as the
November 23 municipal
elections.

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past few weeks,” during
which the NSTA has figured

prominently in several news
Stones, including a front

page Sunday News story

based on information given

to the paper by Richmond.
Sorenson wondered

whether Richmond and

Blackburn were using the
NSTA as a springboard to
public office.

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