Height hoot A. | HE ABANDONMENT of proposed zoning » regulations to increase 7 restrictions on .the allowable size and, height of new ‘single- “family. homes built. in established North | Vancouver ‘District neighborhoods was inevitable. ‘The entire issue was poorly handled , ‘from the start, when a few vocal residents _ bent council ears over that most sacred of North Shore issues: view retention. Council responded with a hasty broad- : brush set lof restrictions. Everyone from homeowners ito. developers balked. at the ‘harsh implications. Quite naturally: those who have a view, wish ¢ to keep it. But because of the delicate balance necessary between the rights of individual property owners and those of the community at large, the issue is, one best settled on a neighborly scaie. Muck staff and council time has been wasted over this issue. Many development permit applications have been held up for months, Continued uaceriainty regarding the status of single-family ‘zoning regulations will have an increasingly negative impact on the market values of older houses in North Vancouver District. The situation must be resolved: quickly and with the honest consultation of all in- terested parties. | , LETTER OF THE DAY Constituents reacted to misleading info { 1 :, Dear Editor: \. provision for increasing the ad- Collins’ constituents reacted In the spring edition of her Householder, |Mary Collins tells us that ‘over ’35%’’ of those, who responded to her last Householder agreed with the changes that. were -reaehz in the Immigration Act. That ‘agreement was with the propaganda spin. assuring control of refugee claims and an increase in the admission of immigrants with skills. Refugee controls will be mission of skilled people. Those admissions: are controlled by the Minister’s Designated Oc- cupations List, which sets out positions of critical need. The fatest list, effective this month, includes 757 jobs in all of Canada except Quebec. There are 120 positions for engineers; 330 systems; 257 are health-related; and apparently we need 30 chefs and 20 nursery farmers. That is a in. computer honestly to misleading propagan- da. Curiously, Collins publishes selected comments. Afl.!! are crit- ical of an immigration policy that 95% favor! And, of course, her statement that “all applicants are judged on individual merit’’ does not apply to most of the family class. | Curious, eh? \ Charles M. Campbell West Vancouver leaving k carry e can? AS ONE TORY cabinet minister after another says “Thanks — but no thanks’ to a chance of winning Brian Mulroney’s job, Kim Campbeil seems poised to become Canada’s next prime minister by acclamation. By party — not public — ac- clamation, of course. Meanwhile, ' the huge party consensus backing her candidacy is not quite-what it may seem. The extraordinary momentum her campaign has gathered even before being officially launched looks like turning the June lead- ership convention, if held at all, into little more than a coronation ceremony. But don’t get the idea . that it’s all due to Kim's universal popularity with her colleagues. There’s a much more hard- headed reason why heavyweights - like Don Mazankowski, Michael Wilson, Barbara McDougall, Per- rin Beatty, Bernard Valcourt and Benoit Bouchard have almost cheerfully retired from the con- test. And it’s not primarily because of reluctance to go head- to-head with Ms, Campbell on the convention floor. it’s because, in their heart of hearts, they are convinced that the Tories — regardless of who leads the party — cannot possibly wina . third term as a majority govern ment at this year’s election. That being so, they have no stomach for squandering a million dollars'or more simply to risk . ~ winding up as another John Turner after a mere three or four weeks’ tenancy of 24 Sussex Drive. This leaves Jean Charest, the 34-year-old environment minister, as Campbell's sole cabinet challenger. But since it's now anglo Canada's turn to provide a leader, he is widely thought to be using the occasion primarily asa test run fora FUTURE leadership bid. So fet Kim bite the bullet, goes the reasoning. She’s the Tories’ only stim chance of pulling off the best that can now be hoped for — a minority PC government in bondage to Preston Manning’s . Reformers. It would at least mean a few jobs for the boys for a while longer. But they're not counting even on that. Like the rest of them, the lady is identified by voters with ‘the same old Mulroney crowd.” Her backing off the costly mili- tary helicopter contract shows continuing favoritism to Quebec — which plays poorly in the West. She is seen as boosting radical feminism, about which many women remain unenthused. And as a ‘‘red’’ Tory, she can be ex- pected to be soft on cost-cutting, HITHER AND YON , a key Issue in the upcoming elec- tion. With the Reform Party and Lu- cien Bouchard‘s Bloc Quebecois as the jokers, the almost certain ‘ result of the five-way battle will |: - be to relegate Campbell and her depleted troops to the. opposition beriches. The old pros in the cabinet can -smell it. They don’t Jack self- confidence — only confidence in their party’s 1993 chances. That’ s why they're sitting this one out and leaving Kim to carry the can, TALLPIECES: Nationally known. for her work on domestic violence .. .° issues, North Van's new federal Liberal candidate Mobina Je{fer. _— nominated by acclamation fast. weekend — is being touted fora cabinet BOst if Jean Chretien wins this year’s election ... Congrats to Tony Cox, installed this month as” Worshipful Master of Burrard: Masonic Lodge on Lonsdale... Treasures galore are promised © tomorrow Saturday, March 20, at St. Martin’s annual rummage sale, 10 a.m. to [2 noon at 195 Bast". Windsor Kd.; North Van ... Many happy returns of today, March 19, to West Van’s Sybil Hunder ... And tomorrow, March 20, let _ bygones be bygones — with a happy 54th birthday to Brian , Mulroney. . ° eo 7 WRIGHT OR WRONG: It's not what you know that counts — it’s . what yc you can 1 think of it in n time. : measured in time. There is no 9 Printed on 10% recycled newsprint Publisher .:.... Peter Speck Managing Editor... Timothy Renshaw Associate Editor. ... Noel Wright Sales & Marketing Director Linda Stewart Comptroller Doug Foot North Shore News, founded in 1969 as an independent suburban newspaper and qualilied under Schedule 111, Paragraph Ul of the Excise Tax Act, is published each Wednesday, Friday and Sunday by North Shore Free Press Lid. and distributed to every door on the North Shore. 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