Cabin users lobby
council to secure

ownership rights
HOLLYBURN cabin users pleaded
at a Monday night council mecting
for cabin ownership and freer rights
to transfer what they consider their
property.

By lan Noble

by tan Nove
News Reporter

The cabin users, whe now pay 5282 a year
to their district landlords, are miffed by three
clauses contained in a new draft permit to
occupy district lands.

One clause in the five-year permit requires
cabin users to recognize that the cabins are
owned by West Vancouver.

Many of the cabin users have been under
the impression they owned the cabins and
could buy and self them, Bur, said West

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Vancouver parks manager Erik Less. cabin
users only have the ight of cecupaney, Cabin
users whe jammed the conned meen
Monday don't agree,

Previous documents, said Hollyburn Ridge
Association president Derek Hale, shew that
the district acknowledged that cabin users
owned the cabins on district lind,

Lees said a legal opinion provided te the
district stated that if the cabins sit on district
land, they are owned by the district.

Over the past 10 years, approximately a
third of the 124 cabin permits have been sold
or transferred to new permittees, said Lees.

The district has included another con-
rentious clause in the draft permit: ansed at
hmiting the value of the permits, which have
been sold for up to $25,000, although the
norm is about $3,000, said Lees.

‘That clause states that permit transfers to
people other than those in the immediate fam-
ily must be approved by council.

Replied Hale: “We aren’t speculators in
cabins. We don’t want to be bought out, but
we want to continue to have the right to fim
over our chattels.”

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plight.

“We are phoning all the non-

“The usage terms and restriction of this
permit control prices far better than. relative
and family restrictions to transfer,” said Hale.

Other cabin users said that permit holders
aced te he people who iake an interest in their
cabins, otherwise the cabins will Alb inte disre-
pair. Not everybody has family who is willing
totake on that responsibility, they said, so they
need the ability co sell to semeone else.

Sees said the clause provides council with
more. control over permit transfers in the
future. For example, council could impose lin:
its to the dollar value of permit transters.

“Staff are quite concerned that as the pop-
ulation of the Lower Mainland grows and peo-
ple look for a semi-wilderness experience, the
pressure on the cabin area will continue to
grow,” said Lees.

A staff report said the intent of the draft
permit is to allow the cabins to be an the
municipal lands “without compremising legit-
imate public recreational use, the tradition of
cabins in the area, or the long-term land use
planning, options of council.”

Hale added thar a draft permit requirement
that only one name appear on the permit

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would disenfranchise many people who jointly
hold the cabins.

The staff report says the permit review has
been going on for two years. The issue was
uibled to the Nov, [8 council meeting.

James Craig purchased his “pretty primi-
tive™ Hollyburn cabin for $6,000 in 1990. Not
many of the cabins have running water and
they require dots of upkeep, he said

Craig tald the News he would sign the
draft permit if he was compelled to, but would
only do it under protest.

“We probably don’t have much choice,” he
said.

His place is a one-storey, 12 by 15 foor unit
with a tow, six-foot Joft that hangs over a bal-
cony.

The Shaughnessy resident says he goes up
to his cabin oceasionally in winter and more
often in the summer to have a coffee or beer,
fisten to CBC radio or read.

“tts a nice little place to go to,” he said.
“Quiet.”

“Mv chief interest is mountaineering, so a
cabin seems to be a good thing to have,” said
the 72-year-old man.

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Pencils still have a place
at high-tech WV school

triend’s place.

Hanes, 69, was in the “gutter
business” before retiring.

“Everything is in limbo. None of
us had insurance,” said Hanes, who
breathes with the assistance of an

yeon tank. .

The residents were told chat it
will uke at feast bvo months before
their bachelor suites will be ready to
live in again.

The fire began oa Tuesday alter
two maintenance workers in the
building were putting ina sink ima
bathroom, A toreh started a fire. It
spread into the walls and into the
ceiling space. The 40 year-old
building did not have a sprinkler
system.

Mac Chappell, executive director
of Kiwanis Senior Citizens: Homes
Ltd., played down the seniors’

profit organizations in: the Lower
Mainland and getting priority on
any vacancies they may have,” said
Chappell.

Chappell said it will cost
$300,060 to repair the building. He
asked for money donations to be
sent fo Kiwanis Senior Citizens
Homes [1d., 2555 Whiteley Court,
North Van, V7$ 3G9.

"The residents have asked for help
in finding low income Temporary
accommodation suitable tor seniors.

NEWS photo Pau! McGrath

THE fire started in this sec-
ond-{loor bathroom after
maintenance workers tried te
install pipes for a sink. Fire,
water and smoke damage was
evident throughout the buiid-
ing on Thursday.

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fy Deana Lancaster y
Contributing Writer

IT’S a school with nine VCRs, two
laser disc players, four satellite receiv:
ing stations and 11 kilometres of
wiring. But does it have pencil sharp-
eners?

The question arose about the new Re wkridge
middie school ata West Vancouver school baard
ME candidates meetime recently at Sentinel see
onda: t school,

An audience member stood and asked candi:
date fames Reen, 4 retired engineer, if he thought pencils were still useful.
If so, she asked. what would ne do about providing pencil sharpeners to
Rockridge.

Keen gota laugh from the audience when he made light of District 43°s
recent move toward corperate partnerships by replying: “T could go around
to some industries and see if they Hl supply them.”

When contacted, officials at the high-tech school said, “There are pen:
cil-sharpeners in every room at Rockridge.”

WEST Van candi-
date James Keen ...
corporate message.

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