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March 6, 1985

News 985-2131

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P&T GARDENS IN DANGER
DEVELOPER TELLS COUNCIL

A DEVELOPMENT company representative has
told North Vancouver City council that unless the
site formerly occupied by Park and Tilford
Gistiileries is rezoned, the city risks losing the
distillery’s popular public garden.

By MARK HAMILTON

“Unless we gain the sup-
port of council and staff to
consider rezoning the prop-
erty... to facilitate a
development as proposed, it
would be unlikely that the
gardens would ever be able
to reopen,’’ John Kinney of

AMBULANCE“ ATTENDANTS . rushed °
ions Gate Hospital’ Saturday

Hyland Turnkey Ltd., told
aldermen.

Kinney made that com-
ment after. outlining plans
for a redeveloped Park and
Tilford Festival Garden and
a 250,000 square-foot shop-
ping centre on the 30-acre
site. Application for rezon-
ing was officially made
Tuesday morning.

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fternoon_ after she was airlifted to North

His appearance before
council — the first public
indication of what the future
of the site and gardens may
be — was prompted by mo-
tions approved by the city a
week ago that favored some
commercial development at
the Park and Tilford site but
not a shopping centre.

The proposal — from
Daon and Brodel Develop-
ments — calls. for some
redevelopment of the
gardens themselves with the
addition of market bouti-
ques, restaurants, complete

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wedding facilities including a
chapel, an ampitheatre and
other public amenities.

The shopping centre, to be
located north of the gardens
with access off Brooksbank,
would include a super-
market, junior department
store, multi-screen theatre
and a number of smaller
stores in three buildings
connected by landscaped and
covered walkways.

Kinney told council the
commercial development
would be modestly scaled
but that a development of
the sized proposed was

needed to generate sufficient
revenue to provide for
maintenance of the gardens
without charging admission
to the public.

Council converns over the
erosion of the industrial land
base, he added, would be
off-set by the creation of be-
tween five and seven times
the number of jobs and two
to three times more tax rev-
enue than were provided
during the peak of Park and
Tilford operation.

Aldermen took no action
on Kinney’s presentation at
Monday night's meeting

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although discussion revealed
some frustration on the part
of both the proposed
developers and the city.

Statements made by
Mayor Jack Loucks and ald.
Stella Jo Dean suggest the
city has not been able to ob-
tain information from
Schenly Distilleries on costs
associated with operation of
the gardens.

Kinney, meanwhile, said
continuing delays in a long-
promised city report on in-
dustrial land have delayed a
decision on the future of the
gardens.

Murder |

attempt
hearing
continues

THE PRELIMINARY
hearing of John Gor-
don Arnold has been
put over to April 3 at
1:30 p.m. in North
Vancouver provincial
court.

Arnold has been charged
with nine counts, including
attempted murder.

He also faces charges of
assanit with a knife, pointing
a firearm at another person,
using a firearm in a careless
manner, using a firearm for
a purpose dangerous to the
public peace, discharging a
firearm with intent to en-
danger life, assault with a
weapon and possession of a
prohibited weapon.

The nine counts all scem
from a shooting incident
which occurred December 27
in North Vancouver.

The preliminary hearing
will be a resumption of the
hearing which began in late
February. A ban on publica-
tion of evidence resulting
from the case was imposed
by Judge J.D. Layton at
Arnold’s first court ap-
pearance in ‘anuary.