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-NVD ) COUNCIL SEEKS LEGAL COUNSEL

Parkland pondered for
latsumoto property

AFTER FAILING a third time to come to a.decision on the
future of the Matsumoto Shipyard site, North Vancouver
District Council voted to defer the issue until it has obtained
legal counsel on how to-acquire the site for parkland.

‘But the fate of the controversial
shipyard is far from decided, |

. The matter wili'go to a town hall
‘meeting May 11 before returning

for council’s further consideration

May 16.

Mayor Marilyn Baker said the
for council

_ Opportunity ‘is there”’
.to!purchase the land for park use.
2 "TF that’s what

want,

making a clear statement of what
the use.of the land should be.’
said Baker.

A 129-unit. residential develop. “
ment has been proposed for’ the

site by Ramrod Investments Ltd.

Council decided to consider ac-
parkland,
because Deep Cove residents were
worried that the potential rezoning _
of the land from light industrial to |
would -

quiring the site for

high density residential

we, (council)
then we should (get on in

YN JACOB
Contrifuting Writer

remove public access 10 the water-
front, which is already in short
supply.

| While supporting the land for
park usc, Baker said she would not
favor changing the zoning to park |
and recreation and then
_the land hanging.” That would not
be. dealing fairly with the owner,
she said,

‘eaving |

advice of a staff report which
recommends residential develop-
ment of Matsumoto, which would
include a public foreshore walkway
‘at no public cost, as the best public
use of the land.

_ Acquiring all foreshore lands
between Cates Park and the Bur-
tard Indian Reserve — at # mini-
mum cost of $5 million — would
Be! unsuitable and unnecessary for
public enjoyment of the water-
front, Says the report.

‘Concrete foundations of the ex-
isting industrial buildings and con-
crete ship launches would also
[present ‘difficulties for park
development, “according to the

* report.

SITE INDUSTRIAL. ALTERNATIVE: SEE EDITORIAL PAGE 6

‘Lou Blair, president of Ramrod
Investinents, said a’ decision td

‘rezone the land for park-use would

send a negative signal’ vo
developers on the North Shore. /-
“He urged councii to follow the

CANCER AND radiation was the ‘topie of 'de
included (left to right) | Dr. Paul Klimo, cance!
; tator Terry Glecoss, Soviet embassy second secretary Vladimie No\

A PROMINENT U. S. saraceit who treated Victims, br the’
Chernobyl nuclear disaster said.the explosion of one nuclear

warhead would make Chernobyl:look like,

“For “most peopie, Chernobyl

“. ci was the first time they were con-

i fronted withthe risks of tadia-
tion,” said’: Robert Gale, a

‘1 tenowned’ doctor who used Bone. d
marrow transplafits to treat victims

or ‘Chernobyl. ; “ethe threat of one
warhead * would / ‘make

Chernobyl look ‘like child’s play. mm.

4 Gale was speaking at Centennial \,
Theatre last week for a televised

specialist at Lions ‘Gate’ Hospital -
“and winner of :the:1987 fTerry' Fox |
“award for cancer resdarch, -Dr. !
-- Paul Klimo; cancer epidemiologist :

Mary McBride; Brian / Phillips: of;
the! radiation protection branch of
B.C.; and Vladimir Novoselov, se-
"cond ' ‘secretary of the Soviet em-
bassy i in Ottawa. »
“Gale went to Chernobyl in April
1986 with a team from the Univer-
sity of California to! help treat vic-

»

“‘child’s play.”’

Hut the. preside iit of Save Our
Shores Citizen's: Group, Lou
Ranar, says, the important thing is

_ that council ‘require-the Jand and

make it availakie. for future park
development.

le, CBC commen-
list Brian Phillips.

charg that tt medical profes-
sion ‘itself is “causing cancer
through the use of X-rays.

The ‘panel agreed that medical

“ procedures, especially X-rays,, were

deadly Tadioactive cesium. :

He: told about °° 250 audience
\ members that he was’ ‘shocked’? -
“to see ‘ai completely. deserted city
‘with: ‘30: Mittle visible destruction.

forum, sponsored by: “the
‘Lions: “Gate , Hospital and, the\ ’
Cancer ‘Control Agency of 'B. Ci, \
allowed members ofthe communi-
ty to question +, the panelists, on
everything: from the’ tisk: of éancer
due to ‘ozone depletion, to the
possibfe dangers of cellular’ phones,

the greatest man-made radioactive
threat’ to, the general public. Doc-
tors should always give the lowest

_ doses of radiation, said Gale.

But Klimo said that the ‘cost of
potential caricers incurred by year-

ly mammogram , testing must be ;
weighed against ‘the benefits of the.

life-saving cancer detection test.
. “Of one million women, 93,000

will develop-breast cancer, and 150/

will develop breast cancer from
mammogram testing,” said Klimo,/
Phillips said the amount of nat-

ural radiation (the:sun’s ultraviolet |
rays) an average person is exposed .

to in :one year is a. much greater

- cancer.risk than X-rays. .
Both Gale and Novoselov agreed *
thatthe world must work together —

to find a solution to avert nuclear
accidents and. nuclear war.

“We can live without. nuclear”

weapons,” * said Novoselov..’;

3 Mednesday,

April, [9s8

North Shure News

| COLLINGWOOD SCHOOL 7
West Van Council
postpones decision

BEARING MAPS and petitions, proponents and oppo-
nents of the controversial Collingwood Schoo! filled to| /
overflowing yet.a third public hearing last week only to
hear decision on the matter deferred until May 9.

West Vancouver District Coun-
cil called for a staff report and
recommendation from the Plann-
ing Committee on the matter
which Mayor Den Lanskall said
hod generated about 580 written
sobmissions since the last ad-
journment alose.

During limited discussion, rep-
resentatives from the highly suc-
cessful private school were able
to outline some of the things they
have done to answer the concerns
of the. surrounding Glenmore
neighborhood.

Traffic from. parents dropping
off and picking up students bas
created headaches. for urea resi-
dents, samy of whom fiad it dif-
ficalt ‘to. get out of their
Grivezays ia the mornings. Coil-
Ingwood tried ovt some volunteer

‘traffic chatrotlers, which were so

successful that it was decided tu
hire permanent staff to carry on.

Lorne ‘Wilson of Collingwood
Schoo! Board said the three buses
that bring the children in the

morning will-be upped to four,

Four buses will also be provided
in’ the altrrncons, when presently
there are none. a

“In addition, (bere will be an on
alte drive through for parenis br-
ingisg and picking up children,

while. on. site parking will be in-

crensed from is to About. 100
spots,

another: way Wilson propased“io

Gimiaish the impact of. traffic on:

the ocighborhood.
Linda Lambert, ° “of Glenmore

Drive, argoed. that none of these .

measures would. change the fact
that traffic eatering the eres

passes | '17 homes ‘on the way to”
; the |

quate?*’ queried a former sch

principe! and local resident Herd
a

Business
Classified Ads

Staggering dioor: hours wast

‘ incinde 8 petition in 'favoro

so)

{
were against the proposal, :
; the net’ results:

' By MAUREEN CURTIS
Contributing Writer :
/
Vancouver Parks and Recreation
Commission, the Ministry //of
Education (in Its required acreage
per student) and the original
board of Collingwood School.
‘When Glenmore School (Col-
Hingwood leases the closed/ down
site of a former public elemen-
tary school) operated there, there
was a free and easy relationship:
between fhe school and! the
community," recalled Wrean.
The Collingwood School site is
currently jot: zoned / for both
elementary aad secondary | use.
Bui Collingwood repre-
sentatives emptasized” that the
proposed. expansion and! im-
provements will allow the school
to” add. Grade .12° and: bring
enrolment from 570 to 600, with
no plans to> ‘grow further..' They
are wiiting to let,conncil limit the
school's expantion in whatever
wey they please: 1]
Wilson said/ that Collingwood
seat oat 1,200 invitations to

- another neighborhood toforma-

tion meeting /at the school, which
was attended by about 55 people.
Feedback . _from this ong. and
other meetings | with’ residents
were mostly favorable, be wild.
There! is 2: small “percentage
that is opposed’and we will never

‘be. able fo! sstisty- those opte,””
ison guid.

‘ Colllagwood © repre: atntives
keve. bod to endure harassment to
thelr. homes, busixesses' and vebi-
cles, 15 2 ‘result, Wilson added.

ed./.
“The

concérming Collingwood : §ch

expansion with, ove i.
signatures, along with a

Wednesday and Thursday, ;
cloudy with periods (of rain.
Highs near 14°C. . /