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RESTORATION SPECIALISTS Laura LaForge and Anne-Lise Bergrud clean up and assess the damage Friday at
the Nutraways health food store In North Vancouver. Food products crashed to the ground when a car smashed
into a wall at approximately 10 a.m. Friday, Sept. 25. The store, located in the 1306-block of Lonsdale Avenue,
was temporarily closed. The North Vancouver RCMP are asking the driver of the vehicle to report the accident.
The vehicle is described as an older model ‘‘souped up” car, possibly burgundy or brown in color with large

chrome bumpers.

Council votes 4-2 against proposed Parkgate Shopping Centre facility

SEYMOUR RESIDENTS won't get a formal chance to

express their opinions on a proposed neighborhood pub in.

the Parkgate Shopping Centre following the decision
Monday night by North Vancouver District Council against
proceeding with a public hearing on the proposal.

Despite staff support for the
pub site, council decided in a 4-2
vote to stop the pub application
process before sending it to bylaw.

“It’s easy enough to string these
sosts of discussions out. Some-
times it’s easier to decide sooner
rather than IJater,”’ said Coun.
Rick Buchols, in voting to reject
the application.

The neighborhood pub propos- .

By Martin Millerchip
Contributing Writer

ed by William Bayer would have
been located on the east side of
the shopping centre in the north
half of the building that is oc-
cupied by the Mayflower Restau-
rant.

NORTH VANCOUVER
DISTRICT COUNCIL

Bayer's proposal envisaged
seating for 65, with additional
patio space for another 20
patrons.

Planning staff reported that the
limited number of seats was un-
likely to generate ‘‘the cabaret en-
vironment usually associated with
noise and drunkeness.”’

But many area residents, in-
cluding St. Pius X Parish, have
written to council voicing concerns
that ranged from drunken driving

on Mount Seymour Parkway to
exacerbating the drug and alcohol
problems faced by Seymour-area
youth.
District
stated that

social planning staff
‘‘public concerns,

especially about youth, must be.

addressed by the regular opera-
tions and regulations governing
pubs’’ but added that no expan-
sion of the pub into a regular
off-sale beer and wine store
would be supported.

According to the planning staff,
the location of a neighborhood
pub at Parkgate has several ad-
vantages:
© adequate parking;

e distance from residences;
© a growing neighborhood to ser-
vice.

But the majority of council
were not swayed either by staff or
500 signatures collected by Bayer
in support of his application.

Coun. Jim Cuthbert said that
“personally 1 support the concept
of a neighborhood pub in the
right location.”

But he added that the Parkgate
location was an invitation to tran-
sient users to drink and drive.

Only Mayor Murray Dykeman
and Coun. Janice Harris sup-
ported sending the application to
bylaw and a public hearing.