— Wednesday, April 22, 1998 — North Shore News

West Van traffic troubies ¢

Catherine Barr
Contributing Writer

WEST Vancouver coun-
cil needs help with traf-
fic.

On Monday approval was
given for municipal staff to
proceed with the plan to hire a
consultant to study the traffic
situation in the Ambleside and
Dundarave areas.

The study will include a
synopsis of vehicle and pedes-
trian traffic on both Marine
Drive and Bellevue at intersec-
tions located berveen 13th
and 21st streets and on Marine
Drive at 24th and 25th streets.

Data will also be gathered
on jaywalking, traffic speed,
left curn delays, signal timing,
traffic signs, sight lincs and
traffic control upgrades.

The evaluation represents
another step by council to

assess the overall impact of

new development in the com-
munity’s two predomianntly
residential, yet high density
merchant areas,

West Vancouver’s incr2as-
ing traffic problems have been
‘giving district councillors
troubic for some time now.

Last summer Park Roya!
requested to expand the shop-
ping centre by an additional
250,000 sq. ft.

Resulting controversy and
public reaction to the develop-
ment spurred council into
commissioning an indepen-
dent rraffic report for the
intersection at Taylor Way and
Marine Drive, as well as sur-
rounding access streets.
Council is expecting the
results by the end of this
month.

Next came the application
by British Pacitic Properties
(BPP) last fall which saw the
developer secking approval to
proceed with its Whitby
Estates project.

Additional! efforts are still
being made by BPP to satisfy a
number of conditions laid out
by council, but a Fesulting traf
fic study recommended thet
future traffic congestion could

be eased by the installation of

a traffic light at 21st and
Westhiil. Council is still con-
sidering this matter.

Next up for council consid-
eration: traffic trouble at
Collingwood school with
empty school buses fighting
their way uphill through traffic
jams caused by parents driving
their children to school.
Council is still working with
the school to solve this prob-
lem.

This was followed by the
defeated Skilift and Chairlift
Road commercial-residential

west yemcouver

development in the same area.
The developer stil plans to
build on this site.

Meanwhile at Ambleside
and Dundarave, developers
and business owners are build-
ing and upgrading properties
along Marine Drive.

Sections of the south side
of Marine Drive in Dundarave
have already undergone exten-
sive upgrading. More con-
struction is scheduled tor the
upcoming sunimer menths.

Hollyburn Plaza (at 18th
and Marine), the old post
office site (ac 17th and
Bellevue) and two adjacent
sites located at 20th and
Marine represent just a few of
the new, combined residential
and commercial properties
scheduled for development or

upgrades.

Add to this the rownhettse |

construction set to begin at
2Ist and Argyle and a new
waterfront high rise at 22nd
and Bellevue and council’s
concern regarding increased
traffic becomes more critical.

Coun. Bill Soprovich
would have preferred an inte-
grated traffic and parking
study. He propased amending
the original motion for a traf-
tic study to include the park-
ing provision. “This is the per-
feet time,” he said.

His amendment
defeated 3-2 in favor of the
original motion by councillors
who felt the parking issue
should be treated separately.

“This is stage one,” said
Mayor Pat Boname acknow!-
edging Soprovich’s suggestion
as prudent. She agreed that a
parking analysis is necessary
and hinted that it might be the
next step in the process.

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