Page A6, June 27, 1979 * ‘North Shore News

" One of. the more obvious facts of life which
have emerged during recent “years in our North.
Shore neck of the woods is that developers are

tending to become an endangered species.

Whether this s automatically: means that developers _
_ are the .bad guys and the rest of. ‘us (now on a.
winning streak) are the good guys is another

matter.again. ao

Even the . prudent

homeowner who invested in:

a double lot a-quarter of -a
century. ago with the
- laudable. aim of avoiding
- becoming . a charge on the
public purse in his old age is
not immune. Today, he has
only to suggest building a
modest duplex on his spare
-- land and the neighbors turn
‘out in force at city hall
shouting “no.”.

For the big boys — whose’

wicked’ moneyed . interests
with plans for such mon-
strosities: as. a two-storey
office building, half a-dozen

_ ~~~townhouses or a handful of

- specialty stores:— it’s even

managing to win in quite a
few cases.

_ Latterly, however, the
would be developer. has
begun to be faced with yet
another roadblock: strident
public opposition before he
has -actuaily. proposed
anything at all -- con-
demnation in anticipation,

so to speak. Two current:

examples illustrate the
process.
In ’ North Vancouver .

District the reaction of

residents and citizen groups"
to their council’s Capilano

Corridor Study has been
virtually ‘unanimous = in

tougher. They can invariably__ assuming the worst from the

count on having local
residents from 20 blocks or
more away manning the
“barricades as soon as the

word leaks out.
HOSTILE WORLD- |

Add to this the drawn-out

formalities of zoning ap-
plications, public hearings,
sweet-talking council, horse-
trading with the municipal
planning department and
haggling over details with
the building inspector for
months on end -- and one has
to admire, however
grudgingly, the sheer
resilience and hardiness of
today’s average developer.

Born. during the later .

1970s into a hostile world,
it’s often a wonder that he
survives at all -- let alone still

Teachers
FROM PAGE A2 -

public: parents must have
direct local control of the
money and Shared
responsibility for hiring and
firing teachers and prin-
cipals. I also think there
must be diversity—all kinds
of different schools for
parents to choose from. And
I know many teachers who
could meet the challenge of

have called for no
further “commercial
development of . any kind

_along the east or west banks

_ of the Capilano, and for as

much as possible of the
remaining undeveloped area
to be.acquired for parkland.

In West Vancouver the

‘current uproar over the

“Heritage Square” sité
between the foot of 14th and
13th Streets brings exactly
the same message: com-
mercial developers keep out!

BROAD IDEAS

_ The West Van situation is
a particularly good example
of the local outrage which
even the sketchiest of
development proposals can
arouse long before | any
developer has actually put

youth. Right now most
young people would be
better off, and our future no
less secure, if they weren't
wasting their time and
tdlents in our suffocating
schools.

If we switched to non-
compulsory education, I’m
sure most kids would stay
home, but not for long. Once
the bad memories wore off,

Noel Wright.

draughtsman to drawing
board. In fact, long before
any specific developer has
emerged atall.

. The . Sutcliffe Report. on
the future. of the Heritage

Square area’ adjoining
Ambleside Park outlines the
possibilities ‘of a

predominantly commercial
development for the block in
question, with less than eight
per cent of the total site area
allocated for community-use
development.

Mr. Sutcliffe himself, it

should be noted, is not a.
-developer.

He is a
professional planning
consultant who was com-

missioned by the previous —

council last October to come
up with $5,000 worth of
broad general ideas about
the future of Heritage
Square. His suggestions are
strictly tentative and this is
the light in which they will
be reviewed by the present

want challenge ,

kids and adults could start to
use the weil equipped
schools to pursue their own
interests and projects. And
teachers who could relate to
kids on .a one-to-one basis
would be there ready to
share their knowledge, skill,
and enthusiasm. Schools
would become community
resource centres, available
to everyone, and always
open.

council: after it has received,
public input.

(That input, incidentally,
in the form of comments or
criticisms, must réach West
Van municipal hall by this
Friday, June 29).

Tentative though Mr.
Sutcliffe’s report is, it’s fairly

obvious that he has talked to -
certain developers as well as.

to typical West Van citizens
along the way. Exactly who

and how many in each, case ©

is not clear, but the
developers’. view of the

_ potential offered by Heritage

Square has evidently _ im-

. Pressed him - as witness the

main conclusions of the
report.
So Mr.
Humphreys and council
members should hardly be

. surprised at the strength of°

public reaction to the report
in this anti-developer age.
_Many West Vancouverites
think they smell something
cooking and quite a number
of them don’t like what they
smell. .

' In one way, however, the
public outcry could be a

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Sutcliffe, Mayor .

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-including- such
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