. | NEWS photo Mike Waketiald DECKED OUT in costume and ready to perform, these students from the Waldorf Schoo! prepare for their Saturday morning performance of The Town Musicians of Bremen. The famous Grimm’s fairy tale will be performed at the school, 2725 St. Christopaers Road on March 7 and 14 at 10:30 and again at 11:30 a.m. See story page 1%, POTENTIAL FILM FACILITY Industrial user found for P&T development AN INDUSTRIAL user has been found for the planned Park and Tilford shopping centre development, and revised plans should be completed by March 30, the property owner’s agent says. Hyland Turnkey president Barry Carruthers said Tuesday the new plans for the commer- cjal-industrial, $35-million development include 15 acres in- dustrial use, 10 acres more than are needed for initial approval. Carruthers would give no details on the industrial user, but on Feb. 10 told the News his firm was negotiating with three industrial users for the site. All of the potential users were involved in the film industry, he said then. In a Feb. 10 presentation, Car- ruthers indicated his firm was negotiating with the production company that produces Riptide and Stingray. The News has con- firmed that that production com- pany is Stephen J. Cannell Pro- ductions. Said Carruthers: ‘‘] just can’t tell you anything (about the new industrial user). I’ve promised By STEPHEN BARR News Reporter (Mayor Jack Loucks) that council would be first to know. “We are not making any an- nouncement (prior to a_ pres- entation to council}.”’ The Cannell Studios refused to discuss the planned Park and Tilford development with the News. Company president Michael Dubelko was unavailable for comment, and a secretary said: “He told me to say he has no comment.”’ An earlier council action halted approval of the project until the proposal was revised to include at least five acres of industrial use on the former distillery site. Under the new proposal, 15 acres of the 30-acre site would be home to a BCE Development Cor- poration shopping centre, which would include a_mutti-screen cinema complex, a Save-On-Foods grocery store and smaller retail stores; the remaining 15 acres would house the unnamed in- dustrial facility. The plan would include the restored Park and Tilford gardens, said Carruthers. Hyland Turnkey had hoped to have the revised plans ready by March 1, but ‘‘just getting our drawings together’? has taken longer than was first anticipated. If the new proposal meets with council’s initial approval, the pro- ject must still go through a host of bylaw readings and at least one public hearing. City clerk Bruce Hawkshaw estimated it would likely be about nine months before the necessary zoning and community plan changes are approved by council. “It would be months, it would be a substantial period of time,’’ Hawkshaw said. But Carruthers said, ‘It is our intention to get chi, thing approv- ed, and the gardens opened for Christmas.”’ 3 - Fridays, Murch 6, 1987 - North Shore News CONSTRUCTION ON CAP ROAD Owners fear water main profit drain THE $4.9 million Capilano water main overhaul is again running into a rising tide of protest from area merchants. “Pm down $1,500 per day already,’ Capilano Texaco owner Dan Krogh said Wednesday, ‘and theyre still two blocks away." Moving south down Capilano Road toward Marine Drive at ap- proximately 200 feet per day, work to install the 78-inch diameter welded pipe has reached the Upper Levels overpass and is scheduled to be at the intersection of Garden Avenue and Capilano Road by the end of March. The two east lanes of Capilano Road will then be closed, while one is excavated to install the pipe. Immediate access to area motels on the east side of the road will be blocked and access to other businesses along both sides of the road will be affected. PROBLEM FORESEEN “Ht is definitely going to cause a problem,’’ Canyon Court Motel owner Ali Pirani said. ‘‘But they promise that we will have some ac- cess,”* Greater Vancouver Regional District senior project engineer Tom Heath said Capilano Road’s two remaining lanes will be open southbound from 9 a.m. to | p.m. and northbound from | p.m. to 8 p.m. From 8 p.m. to 9 a.m. two lanes will be open south and one north. Traffic running counter to the one-way rush hour flow will be re-routed via Garden Avenue. Temporary traffic lights will also be installed at Garden and Marine. Echoing concerns and com- plaints of restaurant owners suf- fering from disrupted access and reduced business at the north end of the project on Capilano Road, Krogh said organization of work was poor and warning given to businesses affected was short. ‘POORLY ORGANIZED’ ‘‘We are really frustrated, sure. But it all boils down to organiza- tion and this whole thing was poorly organized,’’ Krogh said. “"We were given about two weeks warning that our businesses were going to be disrupted for four months.”’ But Heath said suggestions from Weather: Friday and Saturday, mostly cloudy with Showers, Highs near 10° C. Capilano) Road businesses that work on the project be done at night were impractical. The com- plesities of the project, he said, and the difficulty of arranging needed supplies at night rendered night work extremely undesirable, “It is very hard to see (at night) and very easy to rip out area ser- vice lines,’’ Heath said. ‘‘And a lot of businesses in the area are motels. People who go to motels need sleep. i'm sure they wouldn't want us working at night.” Heath said charges of insuffi- cient warning to area businesses about the project were unfair. WARNING GIVEN “We had stories in your paper in December saying this would be coming,’’ he said. '*By the time the work gets down there (lower Capilano) it will have been about two months notice. How much (warning) is enough?”’ Former Hobbit House owner Pau! Berrettoni, who along with Canyon Gardens owner Ray Marinakis originally arranged a meeting with GVRD engineers fcr concerned area businesses in mid- February, said «another meeting held Wednesday ‘‘was very good. The complexities of the project are horrendous. But I think they are doing an admirable job.”” Berrettoni said one of the reasons he sold the Hobbit House was because of business lost when the water main was being installed in front of his restaurant in Febru- ary and the prospect of further disrupted business until the pro- ject’s completion in April. But he said after Wednesday’s meeting, which included about five area merchants and GVRD engineers, ‘‘everybody seemed happy.”’ Heath estimated work on the water main should progress to the lower Capilano area within two or three weeks and would be there for two weeks. He added that the GVRD wilt be displaying signs indicating area businesses are open throughout the construction period. INDEX Classified Ads.......22 Doug Collins. . Editorial Page........6 1 Horoscopes......... 20 Boh Hunter..........4 Lifestyles...........17 Mailbox.............7 Movie Listings......20 TV Listings... Home & Garden... .