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West Vancouver
“council was warned
Tuesday night that it
may face a stiff bill if it
goes ahead with a
bylaw to designate
Rockwoods Estate
adjoining Whytecliff
Park as a heritage site.
Meanwhile, the fight by
local residents against
any commercial use of
the estate seems to
have been called off.

The warning came from
David Roberts, a
representative of Cressey
Development Corporation
which wants to build a
housing development on the
property deeded to the
University of B.C by the late
Major-General Victor
Odlum

Cressey's plans ran into
vigorous opposition — last
March from neighboring
homeowners They
described the proposed 19-
unit subdivision as “highly

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SUNDAY:
Mainly cloady and cool.

MONDAY:
Continaing unsettled.

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September 7, 1980

“POWERED OUT” was how this truck came to be in the ditch ip front of 4630 Strathcona tn Deep Cove tast
Wednesday lunchtime — when his brakes failed, the driver aimed tor the ditch to avoid parked cars and workers,
causing his load of roofing material to slide off. He subsequently tailed to produce a licence and was detained by the

RCMP. (Terry Peters photo).

Tel. 985-2131 Classified 986-6222

City turns
down offer
by District

By PAT RICH

The Stoker farm
property is now free to
be sold on the open
marke* after North
Vancouver City
council told the Stoker
family the City is
unable to purchase part
or all of the property at
29th Street and Lon-
sdale Avenue.

Council's decision
Tuesday might ended a three.
month campaign to save phe
property as a heritage site - a
campaign spearheaded by
the North Vancouver
Community ..Arts Council
and supported by North
Vancouver Distmcet council,

In making thei decision.
City council also reyected a
request by the Distnet to
relax zoning so that the
municipality could buy the
four acre site and develop tt
as parkland

City council abandoned
any plans to save the historic
building at their regular
mecting Tuesday night after
heanng from Ken Thomp
son, the solicitor for the
Stoker family.

TWO PROPOSALS

Thompson said he had met
with City staff August 16 and
they had put forward two
proposals by which = the
municipality would purchase
part of the stte including the
farm house

In order to see how the
market) would view these

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