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hold a public hearing to
rezone two pieces of land in
Deep Cove as parkland.

- Im an unusual move,
Mayor Don Bell urged
council to defer the item’

“the . ‘elderly is because al] council members
quite a ‘coatroversy. Although the were not present and council
total number of hours will not be cut back, appeared to be split.

“Normally you deal with
: the business you have with
2 9 -Satient the council you have,” Bell
b eee, pepe ‘ee , - said, but added that “this is

an exception.”

\North Vancouver school
had wanted the land under
discussion for the new Cove
Cliff school, but were forced

A "publi hearing will be
held later this summer on a
proposed bylaw to’ create a
new, more restrictive
commercial zone in Deep
Cove..

But, on the advice of the
District solicitor, the new
bylaw will not. inclade: a
controversial ‘development
on Gallant Avenue. S

Mayor Don Bell initiated.

of restrictions: on . com-
mercial development, in. the
Cove. Among “other. things,
the bylaw proposes to -limit
‘ Commercial, buildings to 20
feet or two storeys | in height.

| Cluster
decision
| postponed
=| again

t
the seniors are helpless i in |. The proposal for a 24-unit
this situation.” ° cluster housing development
: in the Laura Lynn area of
North Vancouver has been
sent back to the drawing
board once again by District
council.

Council agreed Monday to

__North Vancouver -ask for another proposal
. oro with two less units, to be
oF don’ é “think. the prepared for their con-
/ government “should cut sideration next week.
, back arbitrarily. “Every This decision was made

- senior citizen should get after council decided to
; + what ‘care he or she refer back to a policy and
4 “~ tats: needs. The elderly need planning mccting the bylaw
: “iz all the help they can get. to allow the development at
a ‘ St.James Road and Duchess

: Avenue.

es Mayor Don Bell said he
eT had asked staff to review the
rae eee points raised at a public
Mattie Kostynuk hearing and during council
7 North Vancowver debate and believed there

should be a further sub-
The government is mission for council's con-
being unfair. There are sideration.

‘ thousands of old people Council has been split on
who have no friends or whether the cluster housing
relatives to help out, and proposal or a conventional
they desperately | need lots 17-unit subdivision, would
of help. be more appropriate for the

i area.

the. new bylaw which, ‘if .
“passed, will place a. number: 4

North Vancouver District to plan an annex on land in
‘council last week deferred the area which the school
discussion on whether to board owns.

e concern have is
this public hearing

would be refighting the
battle of Cove Cliff,” Bell

said,

Bell suggested finding out

what the school board plans
to do in the area, before
handling the item.

With Alderman Gordon

Rose absent on business, the
majority of council voted to
defer the item.

Aldermen Ernie Crist and

Mary Segal,. who were
opposed to sending the
matter to a public hearing,
voted against deferring the
item.

He ‘said the ‘bylaw was
prepared “so we can really
have a better handle ‘on
development:. - the

downtown area. (of Deep. , .

Cove).”

Aldermen ‘agreed. ‘to send
the bylaw.to a- public. heating
although:-Alde a.
‘said he was ‘eoncerned that .
the bylaw :

Bt the’ bylaw p passes; ‘Bell
said it could /be'put to use
across the. municipality’ in
areas, . . where -” ‘commercial

zones ‘are sandwiched , in

residential areas.”

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