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THE VOICE OF NORTH AND WEST VANCOUVER

EVEN A SLOW MOVING TRAIN has a lot of power and when you park
a truck a little too close to the raflway tracks, this is the inevitable result.
This cement truck was parked at the LaFarge Cement Distribution Centre

(lan Smith photo)

By BILL BELL

West Vencouver aldermen face one of their
toughest ecisions following Monday's public
hearing on a proposal that would ban all further
highrise development in the municipality — a
personal commitment made in 1978 by Mayor
Derrick Humphreys.

Council heard an
emotional = standing-room
only crowd express fears hat
West Van was turning into a
“concrete jungle” which
would further block = the

face tough |
highrise
decision

Council also heard the
pleas of those who owned
the land which would be
downzoned, some of whom
would lose millions of dollars
in potential revenuc if the

beautiful view of English Bay zoning amendment ts
and blot out the sun of those — passed
who hve there “This will be a difficult

in North Vancouver when a train went by and caught the truck by the
side of one of the rail cars and it flipped over. There were no injuries.

Developers protest proposed WV ban

task,” Mayor Derrick
Humphries told the North
shore News following the
hearing

Mayor Humphreys had
told the hearing the rezoning
1s an clection promise of his
when he ran for office two
years ago. Now “it is up to
council, let the chips fall
where they may ”

CONCRETE JUNGLE
The mayority of — the
petitions, letters and

speakers spoke in favor of
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Beer iene a,
an
aes

NV more
‘loyal’
than WV

Nearly one North
Shore resident in five
among those with a,
opinion on...
would
d.,.

* support - separation
of -the West from the
rest of Canada -- and
well over twice that
number are undecided.

These were the findings of
a survey last week by the
Public Opinion Research
Division of the North Shore
‘News, which also indicated
that potential separatist
support was stronger in West
Vancouver than in North
Vancouver.

The telephone poll asked
a geographically balanced
sample of 390 respondents
from Deep Cove to Hor-

seshoe Bay. “Would you
ever, under any cir-
cumstances, support the
separation of Western
Canada trom Eastern
Canada?”

CONTINUED ON PAGE A2

WEDNESDAY:
Periods of rain,
blustery winds,
continuing mild.

THURSDAY:
Showen and
a lithe cooler.