Sunday. May 7. 2000 —- North Shore News - 5 veg ee ee ee ee 88 ° Whe Great Caursctian tail CHANGE $242 90 °3 $ 90 OFF Petro Canada 10130 sta ams pee etre my st CE Lonsdale & 13th. N. Vancouver ga5- tT Se A PRICE YOU CAN . SLEEP ON m Id FACTORY FUTON 267 E. Ist. tia Entrance in sear lane — Mon.~ Sat. 11-Gpm Sunday 12-5 pm 984-45 Residents set meeting for May 10 Jan-Christian Sorensen Contributing Writer THE Gleneagles Area Ratepayers Association (GARA) i isn’t giving up its fight against the location of a proposed community recreation centre on golf course land in West Vancouver. West Vancouver District council has earmarked land adjacent to the nine-hole Gleneagles Golf Course for the home of its proposed ICBC Clem? western recreation centre. : Construction of the esti- - : eke 7 § If you have been injured in an auto accident ; eae all mated S6-million facility would mean a section of PDT oes ; Stephen Anderson Marine Drive will have tobe J ae . BAS, . ‘ 7 ; realigned. : i . , a - Condominiums have been are _ 922-3881 proposed for a pertion of the SAGER AN pees, TAWRENCE arristers OlICICOrs land that would be created by NEWS photo Pal etre: h relocating the road. A number GLENEAGLES Area Ratepayers Association vice-president Keith Bower is opposed 235-1 Sth Street, West Vancouver of trees would also be fost, as to the development of a recreation centre on Gleneagles Golf Course fand. well as some golf course facili- veya” ad Srevin ine ta! school, Eagle Harbour school, CAR AND TRUCK RENTALS ties. That, according to GARA location sites at Rockridge agenda and it seems like they on: wk: {DIS Scounty} is sc : want to move forward regard- Forever ale : 2 vice-president Keith Bower, is absolutely unnecessars His organization is ; urging council to locate the rec centre on available land opposite the golf course on the eastern side of Marine Drive. That option would not require the re-routing of Marine Drive or the loss of golf course land or facilities. GARA first: outlined its concerns to council during a town hall meeting in’ July 1998. “Council was completely taken by surprise at the over- whelming opposition to their huge rec centre at that meet- ing,” said GARA_ director Sheila Herrmann. “They said, ‘We hear the message loud and clear and we'll take all Fisherman’s Cove, Westport Loop or on Cypress Bow! Land. Bower claims that council has already spent over half a million dollars on planning alone for the new western rec centre and the ting 22nd Street recreation facility. “It's close to five hundred thousand doliars and still climbing,” he said. “And that’s just for the planning. . They haven't even turned a stone yet.” Herrmann accused the council of ignoring the con- cerns of area residents. “This has all been done without any public input,” she said. “It's all been decided quiedy behind closed doors. “It seems like they have an less of what the general con- sensus of the community is.” GARA is hosting a town hall meeting this Wednesday to try to broker a compromise. The organization asked council to co-chair the meet- ing, but was declined. Herrmann said that Coun. Pill Soprovich will be in atten - dance, but she had not heard from his colleagues. “We need for Marine Drive to remain where it is,” she said. “We don’t want any con- dos or trees taken out, We can’t understand why (coun- ceil) would want to destroy the natural beauty of this area when it’s not necessary.” GARA will host its meeting May 10 at 7:30 p.m. in Gleneagles School. Begins Now #2-2.135 Marine Or., West Van 922-3014 oock tang} Any Mini Vor eserve Early tO avoid disappointment 3 10-Car 1S (2277) Some weed & may apply. a 720 Marine Dr. North Van North Shore owned your concerns under consider- ation and come up with some- thing the community can live with.” “Now they've gone back (to the original proposal), It doesn’t make sense. . A recent report from coun- FE ? | 1 I | ~ cil outlined the need fora cen- f SE A tre with an initial size a 20,000 to 30,000 sq. ad, 858 to 2, 787 sq. m) with area for parking, an outdvor field and room for future expansion. 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