Dear Editor:

The . residents of Deep
Cove are angry and bitter.
They feel they’ve been led

down the proverbial. garden.

path by North Vancouver
District Council in what
many of them regard as a
cynical display of political
duplicity. by their elected
representatives.

They live in a unique and

beautiful setting that is at
once both residential
community and recreation
area. That’s why they moved
there in the first place.
That's why they want to ) keep
it that way.

They were promised a
Community Plan in which
they would have input. They
understood this to mean that
they would be able to
maintain the unique features
of their community.

Then along Came a.

developer, or rather a
partnership of. developers,
one of whom _was Gordon

Gibson. They bought some

land in Deep Cove for a big
commercial and high rise
development. Now this
velopment would com-
pletely change the low
density nature of Deep
Cove. It will block out the
view for many residents. It
will cause massive traffic
problems. The housing it
contains will be affordable
only for the well-to-do.
Gordon Gibson is a “big
wheel” in North Vancouver
with a lot of “clout”. Council
meckly agreed to let him go
ahead with his development.
I-was the only member of
council to vote against it.
The residents felt
betrayed. They called a
public meeting and raised
hell with ‘council. They
demanded a moratorium on
all development until they
get their plan. The mayor
and aldermen promised to
At this stage, council had
only two ways out of the
dilemma it had created. It

out. the developer. It did
neither.

In a legal sense the case
appears closed. The
developer has apparently
broken no laws, even if he

. did, initially, reveal only the

first ‘stage of his two-stage
development plan. Council
has brokén no laws——there is

Bo, Jaw. against breaking

promises, or commitments to
residents. It's another of
those classic cases of
developer versus the people,
with council on the side of
the developer. The
developer makes a mint—
the people are left with the
consequences.

But politically, the issue is
far from settled. Council has
opened. up a hornet's nest
and now they'll have to
continue facing the hornets.
The issue will be debated
once more in council.

Council's action has made
a mockery of the whole idea

could down-zone the whole.
area, or it could have bought -

of a Community . Plan for
Deep Cove, or for, that
matter, for North Vancouver

‘District. The Deep Cove

development even violates
council’s own decision of a
moratorium on further
development of the Seymour
area until the new bridge
actoss the Seymour River is
built. As far as the people of
Deep Cove are concerned,
council is not on the side of
the people. Council has lost
all credibility in this com-
munity.

I am sure that a Com-
munity Plan, based on what
the people of North Van-

couver District want, will be,

a central issue in the
November municipal
elections. And I wouldn't be
surprised if the voters make
some changes in the people
they elect to assure this kind
of a plan.

Ernie Crist
Alderman
North Van District

Armaments a mad pursuit

Dear Editor:

A letter to the editor in
your paper, June 21, is
deeply encouraging to one
who has spent fifteen years
in the Peace movement.

At last we have a local
politician, Ernie Crist, with
the courage to point out the
supreme danger of our time
— a world-wide nuclear war.

From our experience in
trying to make people aware
of the danger we find they are

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apathetic — the individual is
helpless — nothing can be
done to. prevent our
probable extinction.

At present the world is
spending a billion dollars a
day on nuclear and con-
ventional armaments. But
such statements involving
figures mean little. In reality
huge quantities of metals,
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creasingly Scarce resources
are being used up in this
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Unless women are the
female appendages of men
with power — financi
political or military — they
have absolutely nothing to
gain from this mad pursuit
by world leaders.

Cost-per-pupil
unjustified

Dear Editor:

What is it that happens to
a taxpayer when he or she is
elected to the West Van-
couver school board?

We clect them with the
thought that they will look
after our moncy as if it was
their own. But what do thcy
do? They start spending
moncy like drunken sailors.
They get completely con-
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would work out to
$8,205,155.

But they are sticking os
and themselves with a bill of
$15,000,000! There is no way
they can honestly justify it!

Bruce Sinclair
West Vancouver

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