Park Zo

Seymour-area
forest lots
face rezoning

By Jolanda Waskito
Contributing Writer

MOST of the 100-plus
crowd at a public hear-
ing in North Vancouver
District Tuesday want
to save the Cove and
Mountain Forest as
park.

The forested area, home to
an extensive and well-used trail

stem, includes an area near
the Northlands public golf
course and a strip above
Panorama Drive that crosses
Deep Cove’s main access to the
Lord Baden-Powell Trail.

Tt will be no easy decision
for district council as it weighs
the situation,

The rezoning of several
parcels of land from urban
reserve and single-family lots
into parks, recreation and open
space (PRO) would result in
the isolation of several residen-
tial lots in the midst of a wilder-
ness area.

Ironically, a lawsuit has been
brouglit against the district by
the federal Canada Housing
and Mortgage Corporation
(CHMC), which is challenging
the very, rezoning now being

ro
P CMC would like to devel-
op the 1] 1-acre parcel that it

co-owns with the province —
which owns 25% —— into a
mixed-unit residential neigh-
borhood. The Crown corpora-
ton would like to have butit 37
single-famiiy lots and several
townhouses.

At the public meeting,
CHMC senior project manager
Tony See urged council not to
rezone the land into PRO.

“Over the years we've con-
sulted staff and the district
advisory committe: . this
joint effort reseized in a
thoughtful and sensitive pro-
pasal,” See said. “There are
consequences it would
eliminate 37 family lots.”

See said that if CHMC land
was turned into a park, the
Crown corporation has “legal
right to receive compensation.”

CHAMC was not alone in its
sentiments.

Several residents who own
lots in the proposed rezoned
areas would be able to exempt
their properties from being
rezoned PRO, burt would also
be isolated in a wilderness area.

The owners bought the lots
while they were zoned urban
reserve and the catch all zoning
of  Residentiai-Institutional-
Park-Recreational including
Golf Course

The five owners who spoke
at the meeting demanded
tither compensation or an
exchange of lots. The district is
already intending ro set. aside
lots along Indian River Drive at
the northern limit of the neigh-
borhood — specitically —_ for
exchange purposes.

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Peter Towell of Richmond
said he bought property in
Northlands — because he
promised his wite Marie a
dream home.

“The plan before us today
leaves the five or six of us in an
untenable position without
expropriation.” Towel ssid. He
asked that council trade his lot
for another one on MacDonald
Way.

foe Cubbage, who lives on
Violet Street in Deep Cove,
said that at 16, he bought
property in Northlands instead
of buying a car. He, too, wants
adequate compensation and
also “applauded” CHMC for
the design of its Northlands
development.

Nor all of the owners were
against the rezoning. Wynn
Wright of Panorama Drive,
who owns a potentially isolated
property, supports the rezon-
ing into PRO because a devel-
opment would affect the
Baden-Powell Trail.

“Thirteen-thousund people
signed a petition thar voiced
support of maintaining the area
of of Cove and Mountain

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Forest,” Wright said. “To close
this (aff from development) is
to offer the finest recreation
area the Lower Mainland has to
offer.”

The 13,000-signature peti-
tion Wright referred tu was the
result of an outery by residents
who wanted to convert the
Cove and Mountain Forest
from urban reserve into PRO
in 1985.

The present consideration
to rezone came about because

a previous council’s rezoning of

urban reserve into PRO in
1995, didn’t encompass all the
areas the public wanted turned
into park and wilderess areas.

Those areas left out of the
PRO rezoning in 1995, are in
dispute now.

Members of the Group
United Around Responsible
Development (GUARD)
voiced their support for a parks
zoning ovo years ago and they
voiced them again Tuesday.

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