re MAB AM BA Fo Seat hed on i aenaie NEWS SRIEFS Youths arrested THE WEST Vancouver Police recovered a stolen Toyota pickup truck and arrested two male teens following break-ins to vehicles in West Vancouver on March 3. According to a police spokesman, the police were call- ed to the Folkestone Way area at 12:46 a.m. to in- vestigate a report of a prowler. They patrolled the area and found a Toyota pickup truck resting against two trees on the southwest corner of 26th Street and Queens Avenue. The siolen truck had sustained major damage to its front. Police dog Trooper was brought io the scene to track for suspects. The dog indicated two parked vehicles in the area. Police found that the vehicles had been ransacked. Trooper continued tracking, and the police eventually apprehended suspects in the 2400-block of Haywood Avenue. Theft charges are pending agains! a 16-year-old Van- couver youth and a 15-year-old West Vancouver youth. The West Vancouver youth also faces a charge of possession of a narcotic. Suite smoked A BURNING ghetto-blaster caused heavy smoke damage to a North Vancouver City apartment suite Feb. 28. The incident occurred at 1:05 p.m. at 201-362 East 10th St., according to a North Vancouver City Fire Department spokesman. A tenant was vacating the suite and wes cleaning the apartment. The portable radio was on the suite’s stove, and the stove was on. The fire caused approximately $3,000 worth of smoke damage to the suite. When an insurance adjuster subsequently arrived at the scene, the adjuster smelled something burning. One of a number of wooden drawers left on top of the stove was scorched. Bowling burglary A 17-YEAR-OLD West Vancouver male faces a charge of theft under $1,000 following an incident at the Brunswick Lions Gate Lanes bowling alley in Park Koyal South. The West Vancouver Police were called to the bowling facility at 11 a.m. March 2 after a youth was allegedly found breaking into the coin tox of a video machine. Fines collected A VANCOUVER woman was released from custody in West Vancouver recently after she paid $640 owed to the municipality for outstanding parking fines. According to a West Vancouver Police spokesman, a warrant was executed and the 23-year-old woman was arrested Jan. 30 after she had collected 32 unpaid park- ing tickets. She appeared in West Vancouver provincial court Feb. 10 aud pleaded guilty to having the outstanding tickets, Definition too narrow to cover all projects From page 3 popular location for senior renters, not just because of rent levels, but because it is central and close to transportation, shopping and doctors’ offices. Kathler outlined some of the reasons why the city needs a social housing policy: @ many city residents have in- come and housing problems; @ specific strategies with clear di- rection must be developed so that the city is more proactive in reaching social housing goals; @ according to 1986 census fig- ures, the average annual income in the city was only $29,000, com- pared with an average annual in- come of $49,000 in North Van- couver District; @ 64% of the city’s residents are renters, and the average income of a renter is 54% of the average homeowners’ income. But Derwyn Owen, the city’s director of purchasing and prop- erty services, said that based on the city’s current base of available lands, a shortfall of 177 acres for social housing projects makes the 20% goal difficult to reach using _city-owned property. With other demands on city lands such as cultural, services, roads, and parks, the land needed Dean to reach that social housing goal is not available, he said. Owen added that of two factors affecting the cost of producing housing, contruction is relatively stable while land values are not. Greater densities, he said, will lower the cost of the lands needed for social housing, while also allowing more units to be built on that land available. Kathler defined social housing as being built with government assistance and restricted to people with low incomes, typically with no more than 30% of the house- hold income going toward rent. Most often, social housing is thought to be senior- or family- oriented, she said, but it also can cover co-op housing and special-needs housing. Dean said the definition was too narrow to cover all projects in the city that are social housing. There is no reason, she said, why social housing can’t be built by the private sector. But Kathler said, ‘‘Up to now, we haven’t had any social! housing built by the private sector.’ The city’s 1,000 secondary suites are being legalized, and while they may not be social hous- ing, they would qualify as afford- able housing, Dean added. From page 2 “People are really concerned about affordability,’’ Gesner said. “Since the fall of 1988 there has been a drastic change in the that although the Lonsdale Avenue project was not approved until two years later, the feasibility of the development was studied in 1988. The $5 million project, she said, wiil not be built with its current design under current market con- ditions because of the lack of market demand for larger apart- ments. . With the proposed new config- uration, the project’s two- bedroom suites would sell for under $200,000; its one bedroom suites would sell for under $150,000. But Gesner added that current economic conditions also make it a good time to build the apart- ment. “Ivs a good time to inject $5 million into the economy,’’ Gesner said. When questioned by council about the total potential profit of each design, she said that the new configuration would not produce a higher total selling price. But she said that the new design would allow Fama to get its money out sooner. “*It’s better to produce what the market wants,’” Gesner added. Building architect Foad Raffi said a second level of parking would have to be constructed under the building to accommo- date the additional tenants. He said a total of 53, instead of the currently approved 34, park- ing spots would be provided. Raffi pointed out that the park- ing level would not alter the build- ing’s height because it would go deeper into the ground. 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