Village
pub
proposal
shot down

EDGEMONT VILLAGE
residents broke into spon-
taneous applause at Monday

night’s North Vancouver
District Council meeting
when an application to con-
vert Torchy’s Restaurant in-
to a neighborhood pub was
denied.

By MARTIN MILLERCHIP
Contributing Writer

As previously reported in the
News, LSK Holdings Ltd. had ap-
plied to rezone the site at 1050
West Queens Road to a 48-seat
neighborheod pub with 14 parking
spaces.

Pre-clearance had been granted
by the Liquor Control and Licens-
ing Branch as the j:ub application
was received prior to changes in
Policy that now require advance
municipal approval.

A municipal poll of all addresses
within a 350-metre radius was re-
quired prior to council considering
whether the application should
Proceet to a zoning bylaw hearing.

Bus social planner Rupert
Downin; argued in a report to
council, ‘If an application for a
neighborhood pub does not merit
further consideration because
council views the possible impacts
on the ncighborishod as unaccep-
table at the outset, it can save the
applicant, -taff and t<sidents time
and mone: (by directing) that the
applicatior, be reiected prior to a
municipal ; ll being undertaken."”

Supporti: x a motion to deny the
application, Ald. Murray
Dykeman said, ‘‘The change pro-
posed is not one of a pub or not a
pub, but real'y a pub zone. The
Proposal to zore that piece of
commercial property into a pub
zone is not consistent with the
area. That particular location is 75
per cent or 80 per cent bordering
on single-family zoning.’

While most of council echoed
their disapproval! of having a pub
in close proximity to residential
Properties, aldermen Craig Clark
and Bill Rodgers argved in favor
of proceeding with the community
poll.
‘We have a process in place
which allows for a poll to be taken
and to be satisfied that the feed-
back we are getting from the
community truly reflects the feel-
ings of the community,’’ said

Rodgers, although he later pointed
out that his position should not be
construed as favoring the applica-
tion.

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THE NORTH Shore academic community is becoming increasingly international in scope. The new North Vancouver campus of Canadian Inter-
national College Inc. (CICI) will serve both Japanese students studying English and other subjects abroad as well as local students wishing to learn
the Japanese language. CICI vice-chairman, management committee John Christianson surveys the scene from the balcony of one of the four

dormitory buildings on campus.

Japanese students learn global
experience at N. Van college

THE GLOBALISTS are
coming.

By MICHAEL BECKER
News Reporter

In 2 month from now the 356
beds in the rooms of the four
newly-constructed dormitories of
the Canadian International Col-
lege Inc. (CICI) campus on
Doliarton Highway will begin
filling with Japanese students
pursuing education abroad at a
private college.

Said John Christianson, vice-
chairman, management commit-
tee of CICK: *‘The overall theme
of cur program is helping the
Japanese students to become
globalisis. The buzzword in
Japan today is ‘internationaliza-
tion.’ Nobody really knows what
that means. So we've separated
out the phrase globalist — which
may be taken to mean a person
who can function in any cudtural
milieu.

“Here he or she will learn to
speak English but will also learn
how to communicate properly in
Japanese. All of the programs
are designed to help them become
citizens of the worid,”’ he said.

If the established pattern holds
true, act of the women moving
through the program will retura
fo Japan apon graduation, work
s few years and then marry.

Said Christianson, ‘‘Some of
the mes will go back and register

at the major Japanese univer-
sities. Up until about a year ago,
none of the major Japanese
universities recognized any
education from offshore. They
bave just in the last year set up a
program where people can write
exams in English to enter these
major universities.”

No direct transfer credits are
accepted, but he sald}*They would
be able to write exams, aot just
strictly the Japanese-type en-
trance exam. They will be able to
write an exam which is shaped
towards the knowledge of the
English language and learnings
from xbroad. They'll have a bet-
ter opportunity to get into uni-
versity in Japrn."’

The price per student to attend
the privately-funded North Van-
couver campus is quoted in Yen.
Three million Japanese Yen, or
roughiy $27,600, buys a student
room 2nd board for the year, tu-
ition and field trips. ‘‘It’s
roughly equivalent to what they
would spend at a better university
or college in Japan,’’ said Chris-
danson.

The 55.3 million first-phase
development of the college cam-
pus, which has seen the construc-
tion on six of 13 sgcres of land
purchased from the Port of Van-
couver in the Maplewood area, is.
nearing completion.

The campus includes the dor-
mitories, a gym, a large cafeteria,

tennis courts, and a building
housing administrative offices
and classrooms.

CICI plans to increase the size
of the administrative building
and classrooms, increase the gym
size, add a Japanese cultural cen-
tre and provide more residential
accommodation during phase
two,

The president of the new col-
lege is Dr. Ian Andrews, a former
divector of the international
education program at Vancouver
Community College. Initially the
faculty will include 18 members.

The 2506 students currently
enrolled at the college’s Nelson
campus ate expected to arrive in
North Vancouver between April
1 to April 10 to begin a second
year of studies.

Said Christianson: “Our goal
is to have this as a four-year uni-
versity. We expect that in 1991
we'll be starting third year
courses for the people who will
be coming over this year. We've
made that commitment in Japan.

Approximately 50 one-year
program students ‘will arrive
directly from Japan. Most of
these students are enrolled at
Japanese universities and are tak-
ing a year off to study English
overseas. College curriculum in-
cludes English language
development, a business pro-
gram, environmental studies and
intercultural studies.

The college will also offer a
Japanese language program on
campus for Canadian students.
“We hope to attract 40 or 50
Canadians to learn Japanese. The
way we do that in Nelson is to set
it up as a work-study program.
The students actually earn part of
their tuition. Last fall 15 Cana-
dian students spent three hours
every morning learning Japanese.
They were given lusch and dinner
and spent three hours a day help-
ing tutor the Japanese students in
English. They were free to be on
campus all day and all evening.
Other than the three hours of
assigned time, they were in a
Japanese culture, That has work-
ed out really well.

While Christianson doesn't
envision a solid wall of sushi bars
ringing the campus, he does see a
need for more services in the
immediate area. ‘‘There needs to
be a good hotel in this ares.
Because when the Japanese
parents come they’re not going to
want to stay downtown and run
back and forth on the SeaBus.

‘There's very little in the way
of community services. There’s a
litde delicatessen and a small
grocery store over here and that’s
about it. There isn’t that much in
Deep Cove. It seems to me that
there’s a real opportunity to
develop or redevelop the area be-
tween here and the bridge. That's
prime country,’’ he said.

West Van alderman irked by News columnist

Day expressed extreme disgust
19 column that
blamed council for delaying the
West Vancouver Kiwanis Club’s
proposal to add 24 units to its
seniors’ rental housing complex on
22nd Street between Gordon and
Haywood avenues.

Wright said the club is thou-
sands of dollars poorer because
delays have cost the club its 11 per

WEST VANCOUVER Ald. Rod Day took issue with
allegations made in a North Shore News column written by
Noel Wright that criticized council for stalling on a West
Vancouver Kiwanis Club project at the club’s expense.

By MAUREEN CURTIS
Contributing Writer

cent mortgage.

“Interest rates went up, which
had to do with people thousands
of miles away in Ottawa; it is not
the fault of council,’’ said Day.

He especially resented Wright's
implication that it is easier for a
commercial developer of the “‘big

money league’’ to progress in its
applications than a service club,
adding that many residents have
since implied that council is ‘‘on
the take.”"

“I would like proof that we give
preferential treatment to commer-
cial developers over worthy good
causes,’’ Day challenged.

He described the process the
Kiwanis proposal is going through
as “the proper channels.”

The proposal was approved by
the Advisory Planning Commis-
sion, but was detained by the Ad-
visory Design Panel. Modifications
were completed, but the panel

wanted a long-range plan for the
property.

“The club couldn’t comply
because it has no further such pro-
jects in mind,’’ Wright said in his
column.

The proposal is currently being
looked at by council’s Planning
Committee, headed by Day, who
resented Wright's criticism of the
panel.

“It is made up of citizens who
do a great deal of service to the
community, and they found
serious problems with the proposal
that caused them to ask for
modifications,’’ Day said. °