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Residents have protested to West Vancouver council about the proposed breakup of the long-established single family neighborhood, spot-rezoning, density, and traffic problems. President. of the Sentinel Hill Residents is Frank Rutter, president. Call 926-0574 for information. .. the. Vitamin House Achy joints??? Pure Glacosamine Sulfate 500mg -How’s j your memory??? inkgo Biloba » Extract 6Omg. ; 929 Lonsdale Ave., "North Varicouver . 2470 Mariné Drive , West Vancouver . 2635, West 4th Avehue; Vancouver 922-0433 “733-5210. Catherine Barr Contributing Writer A West Vancouver engi- neer has a ground- breaking solution for ies’ Horseshoe Bay parking problems. “We can build vou a build- ing underground just as cheaply as above ground,” chims retired engineer Ralph Sultan. Lately, the w hyt ident | technical creative thinking. He is upset at BE Ferries’ planned Horseshoe — Bay parkade project. : the — proposed y, $6.7 million parking “bunker” will forever destroy Horseshoe Bay's ambience. And, he thinks he has a better idea. Sultan’s plan would the project’s parking facilities underground by digging hori- zonally then up ards into the rock mount lies east of the present facili- ties, “The beauty about going unde: round i is tnat it has inti- nite capa ty,” he says, His id based on simi- Jar-sized infrastructure devel- opments in Stockholm, Sweden, and Bergen, Norway, where he savs the entire park: ing and highways facilities have been hidden inside the mountains. “Bergen, Norway, is very similar terrain,” Sultan states, “(it’s) very constrained and Friday. November 13, 1998 -- North Shore News — 14 option proposed very difficult to build any: thing and they've gone into the Clif for their highway svs tenis.” Besides holding a degree in mechanical engineering and teaching business at Harvard, Sultan also wor in Sweden for Atlas ©. opco in L960. Betor reuiring ht Vancouver, he was the execu- tive Vice-president of Hudson Bay Mining Sultan estimates that his based on a 30,000 approsimate S70 per cubic metre — will cost around $3.5 million. And while this figure rep- sents only the cost of hol- lowing out the ground, he still ains that overall it would be cheaper than BC Ferries’ proposed facility, which he ficts will cost approyi- $10 million. Sultan s his would leave Hor: relatively untouched. “Pm not purporting to be an ultimate expert, (but) I think it ought to be looked "he s “... but these (BC F ) people seem to be bent on charging ahead in weeks,” However Jim Wilson, BC Ferries Corp. manager of major proje a similar to Sultan’s has already been considered and rej “Really what you'd have to do is rip off the face of the mountain and replace it with parkade,” he Wilson say project hoe Bay For traditional woodstove charm and ‘the convenience of gas, the cast iron DV 435 Direct. Gas Stove, is for you. 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City is tinding alternative solutions all backward.” for the Horseshoe Bay Sull, Sultan has the back- — parkade project. ing of local municipal politi- Meanwhile, BC Fe cian and fellow UBC engineer — plans on proceeding with the Russ Fraser. construction of its original “Tt (Sultan's plany has a proposed parkade, few technical — problems nstruction could beyin as because it would be below the arly as next month. : S agrees with Sultan chat the project coukt help bring more jobs to the are: and nontaybe revive some of womuning indus: alot of ‘s ses TO ICBC HAS A TEAM OF LAWYERS, SHOULDN'T YOU? 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