NEWS photo Brad Ledwidge

ALDAMAR MANAGEMENT Inc. representative Ron Lanthier
met with West Vancouver residents on Tuesday.

Subdivision
raises traffic
Safety fears

Three-phase housing development
proposed for Sunset Beach area

CONCERNS ABOUT traffic
safety and retention of old-
growth trees dominated a pub-
lic information meeting held
Tuesday at West Vancouver's
Gleneagles Golf and Country
Club by the developer of the
Sunset Highlands residential
development.

By Gien Anwick
Contributing Writer

Ron Lanthier of Aldamar
Management Inc., the management
company looking after the project,
pledged to work with members of
the Sunset Point Ratepayers’
Association to alleviate fears about
increased car traffic, poorer high-
way access and possible soil insta-
bility problems caused by the cut-
ting of trees at the site.

Lanthier and his group have pro-
posed a three-phase luxury housing
development on property above the
Sea to Sky Highway, about four
kilometres (2.5 mi.) past Horseshoe
Bay near Sunset Beach.

The first phase of the develop-
ment, worth above $28 million, is
currently going through the
approval process at West Vancou-
ver District hall.

It calls for a 39-acre mountain-
side parcel to be subdivided into 36
separate, well-treed lots.

The development’s initial stage,
involving the northernmost triangle
of the property, starts a few hun-
dred yards from Disbrow Falls and
runs to Shake Creek,

It is directly across the highway
from the current Ansell Place sub-
division.

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Two tater phases are to be con-
structed on another 54 acres and
will add a further 60 high-priced
residential single-family dwellings.

The development’s first phase
would include lot sizes of nearly
three-quarters of an acre, plus
municipal pudlic parkiand consist-
ing of three separate small parks,
one with a tennis court, hard-sur-
faced sports court and play park:
the other two would have natural
trails, waterfalls and water views,

The parks will be spread over
more than 10 acres, or about 25%
of the site, and would be named
Disbrow Falls Park, Sunset Park
and Ridgeland Park.

There would also be seven acres
of forest Jands tiat would be illegal
for lot owners to cut down, bring-
ing total treed acreage to about
43% of the development site.

The site will also include an
excess capacity drainage system
consisting of three large open cul-
verts designed to protect the pro-

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for a cross-sloped roadway system
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Local rescue officials have said that emergency response will likely fall
short of what will be needed after the shaking stops. For that reason, resi-
dents are asked to store supplies for at least three days of self-sufficiency.

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West Vancouver

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