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N.VAN CITY

Community
plan may
include
building
density
bonussing

By TERRY LAVENDER

DEVELOPERS may
soon have to provide
amenities if they want
high densities in the
City of North Van-

couver.

City Council voted
Monday to have staff report
on legalizing ‘bonussing’ — a
scheme requiring developers
who want to erect the
maximum number of
dwelling units to provide
such extras as daycare
centres, small parks or
playgrounds.

The bonussing idea was
part of a package of
resolutions amending the
objectives of the Official
Community Plan considered
Monday. Council adopted
all but one, which it deferred
until more information is
available.

Alderman Gary Payne
said bonussing is needed
because most developers
want to build the maximum
number of units per acre
they can get away with. They
should give something in

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decorated by Mrs. Ferrier. (Exic Eggertzon photo)

Incineration
may go to
referendum

By CHRIS LLOYD

MAYOR Don Bell has
done an about-turn and
joined the North
Vancouver residents
living near the Premier
Street landfill in their
opposition to the
garbage dump.

Bell now agrees that the
landfill should be phased out
and closed within a
maximum of five years and
that the 150 ft. high mound
of garbage - renamed by
locals as Mount Bell with the
intention of provoking the
mayor into action - should
be lowered.

He sull acknowledges that
alternative means of garbage
disposal would cost far more
but says he ts finding it in-
creasingly difficult to justify
the social and environmental
cost of the landfill purely on
economic grounds.

Unless the costs are so far
out of line as to make it
totally unfeasible, Bell
would like to sec the District
disposing of its garbage by
incineration. And he thinks
the question of whether
taxpayers want to pay the
costs of incineration should
be put to the public by
referendum

“It would go to referen
dum because it would be big
moncy.” he says “We are
looking ata potential $20 30
millon operation ©

Operahon costs of in
cincration would be about
$18 per ton. compared to
present landfill
about $5 a ton

costs of
¢ ombined

with the capital expense
Bell estimates it would cost
about $40 per ton of garbage
incinerated

That kind of cxpense

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