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$1m revitalization contract awarded

- THE AWARDING of the Ambleside Revitalization con-
“tract at West Vancouver District Council's Monday night
meeting coincided with protests about/the project from area

merchants,

The contract was awarded to
BLA. Blacktop, whose,
$1,425,426.56 bid was
, imately $300,000 less than the next

: lowest bid. ;

approx- ,

: devitalization’

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By MAUREEN CURTIS
Contributing Weiter

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components” and

The ‘four bids. received for the it grave doubts as to’ whether the
proicct ranged from Blacktop’ sup (amount his.company would have

to. a bid for $1.75 million. |
’ But West, Van Florists owner,
Rob Harrington.

“displeasure with sonic of

PILOT HOUSE ROAD

WV home gets approval {

‘two. council
and numerous
“consultations: with’ Lower
Caulfeild:. residents, but:
future; West Vancouverite.
Leslie: Redford’ finally
possesse$.an. approved house
design as well‘ as what:some
.. think is the.most beatiful
loti in the district. « ‘

“meetings

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might. not
wo-storey tudo .

tepeted. fats
District, Council’

expressed:
the POs

i: to pay for the project would result.
in.a comparative return.

Harrington said he faced the -
ible loss of 20 parking spaces °

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| Roberts ‘said the: 55- foot se -
backs being demanded ‘fron. Pilot
House Road, and the lane. were

tudicrous and would only push the’

house into the waterfront. garden,

further, encroaching views enjoyed :

from houses nearby.
He warned that further demands

on Kedford could” result in her sell- 3

ing the property ‘to someone who
might comply with all byiws, but

. build a cement box that would nat.

that he maintained in| the 1800-/
block of Marine Drive. ||
“West Van Florists already suf-
fers from lack: of parking,"* he,
said. “...this would iust, put more
cars on ‘the residential st reets."
Harrington‘asked why only half

a olock of 18th Street hid been in-

cluded in Phase 1 of the project.

" He ‘argued that the work has been
done already on other streets and

is overduc anyway, ”

“18th. Street is a isprace,”*
Harrington claimed. i
A traffic light at 18th Street and

* 2 ub lee
Marine Drive “and lane: improve-

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“be as “nearly aesthenie’ or ‘seristive’ to

the surrounding area. |

Ald.” Mark: Sager agreed and,
complimenting Redford ‘on her ef.
forts,

Ald, Pat Boname, his. com- a

plimented Redford. for her efforts
at compromise, and the neighbors
for “letting you know: what’ West
Vancouver is like,’ a

moved the desigin be ap- |
proved. : eo j ,

166-4561 NORTH. RO.
Mas} Sat 00, 6,09,

ments in the 1700 and 1800-blacks
of Marine were other, items Harr-
ington said should be included in
the revitalization scheme.

Mayor Don Lanskail asked: why.
Harrington hadn't raised his com.

plaints’ with the -Ambleside
Revitalization steering committee,
which has warked on {he project’ $
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“This “has been going: on for’

months and this isthe: first: lime
I've heard “of ‘these concerns,"*
Lanskail said. | ;
“Council is not the body directly
responsible for the project,"’ the
mayor said.‘' This is a business ini-

tiative that council is responding |
vto.”

. Harrington conceded

. wasn ‘t the dollars and cents of he

project that jhad. him concerned,
‘but that’the 1800-block of Marine

. Drive was getting short-changed.

‘We've got to get ithe: right
things, happening. to improve
business so that we can afford to
pay the dollars for revitalization,”
he added. i

Ald. Mark : Sager,’ a member of.
“the revitalization: stcering commit-
tee, said: that ‘Harrington's and
other merchants’ original cost

. assessments had been pared almost

Lin half by cuts in the project and a
recently’ awarded government,
grant. 4

“8th Street is a. very serious

soneeen to the community,” Sager

that “it. ’s

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