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Martin Millerchip

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THERESA Tavernier
likes to do things
legally.

The Lynn Valley resident is a
worrier and to do things differ-
enily would give het no rest.

So when she got tired of
cleaning up after seadent boarders
she decided to install a secondary
suite. Legally.

“When lay my head down to
sleep | want to have peace in my
mind and peace in my heart,”
Tavernier said on Tuesday.

North Vanceaner District
legalized secondary suites in sin-
gle family residential zones in
‘October 1997 subject to certain
zoning and building code
requirements,

“Estimates of the number of
ilegal suites in the district rang>
fram 2,700 te 4,200, bat in the
nine months since the option to
legalize became available only 19
applications have been received.

Tavernier asked for the infor:
mation package in December and
submitted ker plans in Mareh.

She says she was told she was
the first to apply for the required
permits.

She was refused in June.

District building supervisor
Van Arthur savy Tavernier was
nor the first to apply, although he
says she is the first to seck relief
trom the district's board of vari-
ane

That relief was denied on July
16, six days after the Belgian
immigrant was granted her

“Canadian citizenship.

Now ‘Tavernier wonders how
she can affard to keep the house
she and her husband bought in
Mav: 1988, :

“She divorced hiny three years

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AL Jonsson is overseeing construction of a side channel and pond ‘along Mosquito Creek. The Department

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Oceans has joined forces with North Van District in the unique stream rehab project to create spawning areas for salmon and troul..

Creek rehab project could be first of many on North Shore

Andrew McCredie

Editor audrew@usnews.com

THIRTY years ago heavy machinery was a com-
mon sight along Mosquito Creek.

The machines are back, but this time their intention ts to repair the dam-
age their diesel-bresthing brethren did three decades ago.

Ia the 1950s and 60s Nowh Vancouver District did extensive culvert
work in and around Mosquito Creek to fix chronic Hooding problems in the
drea to the north and south ef Queen’s Avenue, near the William Griffin
recreation centre. : .

The Yooding problem was fixed, bur fike so many river engineering pro
jects back then, another problem was created: traditional spawning, areas for
the creck’s coho salmon and stecthead and cutthroat trout were destroved,

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Throughout the flood: prone area, large rocks were duniped along the ercek
on both sides to control the large volume of water that rushes down trom
the mounniins in the winter.

This sumimer’s work is intended to rycht that wrong,

“When you look in the stream bed you can see there is ne gravel, just
rocks,” said the Department of Fisheries and Oceans rescurce restoration
anit’s Al Jonsson, adding thar gravel beds are essential for spawning fish

“So what we're doing is building an area that will providg an alternative
to what was Jost”

Jonsson is also a volunteer with the North Shore Streamkeepers, and it
that capacity identified the area a few vears ago asa perfect section of creck
te rehab, .

When the North Vancouver resident was hired by the DFO a couple of

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