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ty was later found to be not viable
financially.

VanCity. then proposed a two-
storey seniors-oriented. develop-
ment, but withdrew the proposal in
the face of public opposition. As a
result, council established the area
asa special study area and began | a
process that has included meetings
with . the Cloverley Residents’

COUN. | JOHN! ° Braithwaite
backed Idea of rezoning all of
disputed area as single family.

+ Association, | Queensbury
* Enhancement Association, discus-
sions with three of the four proper-
ty, owners and: coordination with
the... -: Advisory... Planning
“Commission. .

“A public open house, was held
“on Nov.-29.to. further discuss the
_ area and receive public input. All
‘efforts’ culminated “in Monday’s
"public information meeting before
council,

“Speaking | ‘first, Vandriel read
‘from a passionate’speech that out-
‘lined* the. residents’
Vandriel stressed ‘that the associa-
tion’ was not anti- -development and

“appreciated ‘the role ‘that multi-

‘Deal app

concerns. .

family housing played in society
and within the lives of the its mien
bers.

“However, by moving to the
single-family neighborhood of
Queensbury we have realized our
dreams of being part of a commu-
nity of houses, and yards, and
grass, and fences and we are not
about to sit idle and let the interests
of so few take this away from us.”

The completion of Vandriel's
speech brought loud applause from
the audience.

. Peggy McIntosh,’ a resident of
729 East 7th St., said she was rep-
resenting a neighborhood of hon-
est, working taxpayers..“We do not
want higher density and the noise,
and pollution and. parking prob-
lems of an expanded commercial
area,” suid McIntosh,

Several residents stood to voice
their approval of the aims of the
Queensdale Enhancement
Association. ‘The ‘association was
100% behind returning the two
south corners to single-family resi-
dential and to accept a compromise
on. the north corners: keep them
commercial one-storey dwellings.

City staff did not recommend as

-significant a down-sizing as local

residents were requesting, but sug-
gested council create a zoning
amendment bylaw that would limit
the height of any new development
to a maximum of two storeys. As it

stood, the C-2 zoning would have -

allowed’ for four-storey develop-
ment.

‘Coun. John Braithwaite said he
was prepared to support a motion
to rezone the area entirely as single
family, but went with the wishes of

the. community’ and proposed a
* motion to amend the southeast and

southwest corners of the area to
single-family residential while
leaving the north corners Single-
storey commercial.

Coun, Barbara Perrault said ‘she
“likes what she is hearing of lots of
young ‘people . fixing up : their

homes and children coming back’

a AWS briete

roved

to the area.”

Her sentinients were echoed hy
Coun, Stella Jo Dean who added
her congritulations to all the resi-
dents for getting so organized.

Vandriel hopes the groups’ sutc-
cesses will restore faith in neigh-
borhood groups, But she adds that
North Vancouver City Council's
attentiveness to the neighbors’ con-
cerns may be an exception to.other
municipal councils.

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