NORTH VANCOUVER
CITY FIRE DEPT.
April 14
1. 300-blk. West 26uh
Single-family house fire.
April 17
2. 200-bik. East 13th St.
Hospital /rest home fire.

NORTH VANCOUVER
DISTRICT FIRE
DEPT.
April 14

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3. 2700-bik.
Kilmarnock Cres.
Miscellaneous fire.
April 16
4. Indian Arm
Unreported fire.

NORTH VANCOUVER
RCMP
March 9
§. Delbrook rec centre
Break and enter reported
at the Delbrook ree centre
during the weekend of April
7-9, Suspects — entered
through =rear = window.
Suspects took approximate-
ly $4,000 in computer

equipment. Suspects caught
on camera, charges pend-

ing.
March 10
6. Orwell St.

Break and enter. Suspects
pried open front dvor.
Approximately $3,000 in
office equipment and com-
puters stolen. Suspect vehi-
cle seen in area, traced to
Nanaimo.

March 11
7. Forbes at Esplanade

Motor vehicle accident.
Oo injured. Damage
$10,000. One — driver
charged under MVA Act for

éd from prosecution. Call police at 985-1
. 925-7300 for more. information. ..

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unsafe U-turn.
8. Larson at Fell Ave.

A two-vehicle motor
vehicle accident. No
injuries. Damage: $4,000.
One injured. One driver
charged under MV Act.

9. Lonsdale Ave. at 20th

A two-vehicle motor
vehicle accide! No

uries. Damage: $3,000.

ree people — injured.
Charges pending.
March 15
10. Marine Dr.

Assault in progress at

L.A. Tavern, Avalon Hotel.

Two males, intoxicated and

fighting. Police attended to
disperse crowd.
1. 300-blk. Chesterfield

Assault. Two males
assaulting each other in
lane. Police attend, males
fighting over a minor motor
vehicle accident.

March 16
12. 100-bIk. Bowron Crt.

Assault. Domestic assault
reported to police. Charges
pending.

13. 400-blk. East 26th St.

Assault. Two females
fighting. Police attend,
investigation continues.

istrict
taxes up
by 3.2%

TAX increases are generally
bad news, but this year’s jump
in North Vancouver District
could be described as “fairly”
bad news.

Council agreed Monday to
apply an across-the-board
3.2% tax inci ease to each prop-
erty class. That translates
approximately to a $40 tax
increase for an average home
assessed at $332,000.

Since 1984, B.C. munici-
palities have levied property
taxes using a variable tax rate
systein. This requires a munic-
ipality to set a separate tax rate
tor cach class of property

While the rate of taxation
varies for each class, with
industrial land contributing 3
larger proportion of tax rev-
enue, the same increase will be
applied to cach rate class.

The classes within the dis-
trict are: residential, business,
major industrial, light industri-
al, utility and recreational.

In 1996 the NDP provin-
cial government capped the
utility class tax rate at $40.59
per $1,000 of taxable assess-
ment. In the same year the dis-
trict’s utility tax rate was
$46.28 per $1,000.

The change, and its result-
ing loss of revenue te the dis-

ict, was applied by the

¢ along with a reduc-

tion in railway taxation. The

district pays an extra $1.5 mil-

lion this year courtesy of the
province.

— Martin Milferchip

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