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7 - Fridays, dunuiry 12. 1990. North Shore News

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GALLANT AVENUE PROPOSAL

Deep Cove merchant favors development

Dear Editor:

Along with 70 to 80 per cent of
the community and the majority of
my fellow merchants. I am
fervently in favor of the proposed
development on Gallant Avenue in
Deep Cove for four reasons:

¢ The parking will be safer than
it is now. Currently, there are three
parking lots which back on to pe-
destrians crossing the bridge at the
entrance to the playground. The
proposed development eliminates
two of the three parking lots. The
cars going into the new building
will all be driving forward, coming
out and going in — much safer
than what we have right now.

e The view will be enhanced.

B.C. Transit not so bad

Dear Editor:

Recently I was on the Highland
bus (246).

I boarded at the stop in front of
the Bay downtown, and amongst
the passengers behind me was a
fragile, gentle-looking white-haired
lady.

She sat down in the corner seat
just behind the driver and told him
she wanted to go to ‘‘20th’’ on the
North Shore. When he asked her
what number on 20th, she said she
didn't know, she just wanted to go
**home."

She continued murmuring to the
driver who was battling traffic as
usual along Georgia Street, so
when we were approaching the
causeway he used the emergency
phone by his side to report his
problem.

When we reached the foot of
Capilano Road the driver's tele-
phone rang and | heard him say to
the caller, ‘‘It would be best to
meet us in the village.’

‘When we got to the village, the
inspector was already there with
his car and boarded the bus to see
if the lady’s address was on the
huge bundle of cards she had in

Study crossing
alternatives now

Dear Editor:

Premier Vander Zalm promised
to set up a committee to study
alternative ways of crossing Bur-
rard Inlet to and from the North
Shore if under any circumstances
the Lions Gate Bridge is knocked
out of service by, say, an earth-
quake.

This would follow a request to
do so by the mayors of the North
Shore municipalities. This was his
concluding statement when I ques-
tioned the provincial cabinet at the
October convention of the Social
Credit party.

Your newspaper (Nov. 15)
reported on the preliminary fin-
dings of the Wally Atkinson
‘‘Transportation Network Study.”’
The projected traffic increases
frightened me, but when | added
traffic increases from West Van-
couver, Squamish, Whistler and
growing communities all the way
to the North Pole and to the same
target date of 2011 AD I was hor-
rified,

We do not need an earthquake
to justify the premier’s proposed
joint committee.

Warnett Kennedy
West Vancouver

IT'S A MATTER OF
LIFE AND BREATH
DON’T SMOKE

F British Cotumbia Lung Association

The view of Mount Seymour we
lose because of the height will be
more than compensated with what
we gain in a wider panoramic view.
Lose a lithe of one mountain and
gain more ocean, 4 marina and
other mountains. Sounds like a
better deal to me.

¢ tc will look so much better.
The building 1 am currently occu-
pying on Gallant looks like a
decaying tooth in a perfect smile
— visual pollution, if you will. The
building seems to be in a pro-
gressively deteriorating state of
degradation.

© Vandalism (as horrendous as it
is) will certainly be reduced. A
well-documented principle of real

her wallet. It did not seem to be
there so the inspector asked her to
come off the bus with him and he
would drive her home.

B.C. Transit and its drivers’ ser-
tO passengers get

vice lots of

(son Hows

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at O'Doul’s.
LOUISIANA Soft Shell Crab, Southern Mixed Grill, CAJUN
Fried Oysters. JAMBALAYA .
Deep South to make your juices flow.

aw A few favorites from the

All served with the dreams of sultry, smoke-filled jazz bars in NEW
ORLEANS, the extravagance of MARDI GRAS, the caress of
Rhythm & Blues and the heat of a solitary SAX.

Live entertainment seven nights a week

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estate (and of common sense) is
that property gets vandalized more
when people are not around. 1
there are 17 condos, it will be
much more difficult for vandals to
commit their senseless acts
unobserved.

There have been expressions of
concern from North Vancouver
District Council and staff about
the height and character guidelines
of the proposed development.
While [ have the utmost apprecia-
tion and admiration for the
vigilance of council and staff to
protect the wishes of the com-
munity as they were expressed nine
years ago (to limit height to 25
feet), it is obvious now that the

adverse criticism, but I, a senior,
thought this was a most wonderful
piece Of service where needed,
which would no doubt be available
for me if I ever needed it.

Name Withheld

Wwhkead

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people who live here who decide
whether they want to live with the
height and character of a building?

Hopefully, as council examines
the development plans in) more
detail and it becomes more «ap-
parent chat the community is en-
thusiastically endorsing it, they will
support the community in their
decision.

community has changed their
mind.

After (wo publi meetings. the
results were that the residents in
Deep Cove were overwhelmingly in
favor of this project by 70 to 80
per cent. This was certainly in no
small part due to the high level of
cooperation and community sensi-
uvity of the developers, John
Hiebeck and Peter Logan (who is a
Deep Cove resident).

And after all, shouldn't it be the

Jennie Keeran
Deep Cove

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