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: ‘OCAL DEMOCRACY has ' taken zens to cast ballots for one candidate or

“another shot, to the solar plexus. This

another, the absence of such political boest-

. dtime: ourtesy of North Vancouver City erism during a local ‘election would bode ill

fe
0. public pressure; councillors

. for focal democracy...
“It would send a tidy message to one and all

decided. at ‘the. April: 11. city council meeting. that interest in and passion for local’ politics

to. banish Tocal: ‘election signs from Keith was also absent.
. . By bowing to the gripes ofa few citizens

who-are offended by displays, of. political
enthusiasm, no.matter how visually unap-'
vo pealing,’ city council has rendered Keith.
Stella Jo Dean.::Road a democracy- -free.zone,‘where the over-

x ‘sicrificed the garish, yet
tempor display of. earnest democratic.

less: ‘revolted ‘bythe ‘proliferation, of. local
political ’ signage'on the public thoroughfare, © :
kicked ‘over the. campaign ‘signs of municipal
litical hopefuls as they. walked their dog. :
Passions obviously run high on thei issue.
But,: while few could ‘defend the ‘visual
appeal. ) countless election : signs urging citi-:

es has. been | a great deal of -

talk- about tolls’ on the proposed
. Lions Gate. crssing, even a poll by
“the: News’ asking what fee we’re
-, Prepared to pay. It’s beginning to

_'sOund like a done deal — no objec-

“tors, no real details, no promise that
“all new bridges will be financed by
tolls. Wake-up ‘residents of the

North’ Shore, you’re being softened:

-.up..There is more to, this problem

thansa daily surcharge and delays

for crossing at the.First Narrows.
“The Second Narrows Bridge,

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inda Stewart

ly fussy are now, free to stroll without having

“advertising,

and approaches to it, will be grid-

‘locked all day as traffic -diverts

through North Vancouver’ ‘and the

“Upper Levels Highway. Every
‘ homeowner on the North Shore will

suffer a real reduction in property
values. Buyers will take the grid-

‘ lock and tolls into account.

Thave a suggestion.
Since we on the North Shore,

‘Sunshine Coast, and Howe Sound

contributed to the cost of the other
toll-free provincial bridges, it is fit-

ting that users of those bridges’ con-
-tribute to the replacement of the

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their: sensibilities disturbed by political.

Far better, however, to foterate the indus-
“try: of those willing to'do their civic duty by’:
. taking the chill plunge into civic politics than
to be the docile memiber of.a community: with’
“no sense of civic duty at all. :

Lions Gate Bridge. ‘To be équitabte,
the government should apply an
appropriate toll on all provincial
bridges, directing the prefits to a

general bridge fund. This would”

share the costs, probably shorten
the period where tolls are collected,
or at least establish a reserve for
financing all future bridge cunstruc-
tion. This proposal is fair and
although it doesn't cure the prab-

lems of a daily expense, two out of

three ain't bad.
Frank Murphy
North Vancouver

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WE INTERRUPT this col-
umn fora non-scoop, since
West Vancouver municipal

‘council reporter Maureen

Curtis has broken the story
in this issue of the North

_ Shore News,

‘The rise in the West Vancouver
municipal budget this year will be
we Wail for it. zero. ‘

North Vancouver City's budget,
released and debated last Monday,
will rise 3.82%, That includes,
ac cording to new director of.
finance Sherry Durnsford, 1% as a,
further contribution to the new
RCMP building.

North Vancouver District’s bud-
get will be released either May 2
said director of finance Michael
Hoskin, or this’ Monday if it can be
tidied up faster. to,

West Vancouver's no-increase
budget will be unveiled in all its

- beauty at council’s meeting on

Monday. ;
That’s pretty good news in a
year with only fair-to-middling -
economic developments on the .°
national scene. |
. West Vancouver Mayor. Mark

‘Sager used the:z-word privately late -
_ last week, and publicly a at fast

gi near thal ha
least $2 million: could

be cut from West Van's.

budget... 99.

Monday’s council meeting. He vas.
questioned by Blair Bailey about «
the brief on municipal spending -
produced by the informal group of
Brice Macdougall, Bill Brown,.Ron
Baldry, Gordon Kerr. and Daniel
Hall. :
in his reply, Mayor Sager ‘pre-
dicted” the West Van budget would _
rise 0%. A fairly safe’prediction. If

- the mayor doesn’t know, who 2".
does? Mayor Sager’s somewhat.
chuckling response to ray columtis

on the group’s brief i is worth not-
ing. /
First, he imptied that the group’s
motives were tainted by politics,”
because Baldry and Macdougall

have run unsuccesstully for munici-
. pal office, ;

Second, he goad- naturcdly hint-
ed that I'd been had: the group’s
tabic of figures comparing the tax
burden of 17 Lower Mainland =.
municipalities — which it said was
based on figures from the provin-
cial Ministry of Finance ~- was -

“merely the municipality’s own data,

quite public. But I havent been’
able to determine if such a‘table has
been given wide public distribution
or has only been shared among,
staff and council.

Third, the mayor, and later West
Vancouver dircetor of finance
George Horwood, quite properly
pointed oul the dangers (and delu-
sions?) of making such compar-
isons, even with other North Shore
municipalities.

V. Van’s quest |
for 0%

hike on trac

Trevor
Lautens |

budget —
D>.

GARDEN OF BIASES:

* North Van City, for insta
“postage stamp,” in Horwood's

“words, has a strong industrial
base:.So does the bigger North
Vancouver District. No’ compar!
with reside ential and d sprawling We:
“Vane | : al

. Still, the five: =man group thinks
that at least’ $2 million; could bei cu
‘from West Van’s thidget:
year, $37 ‘million — witho tre
‘ing services, And a See said | at

column on: Park Royal ed p
_ ment, and’a-letter'to the editor “by.
“Shitaz Lalji of Larco, the com
. that owns -the § hopping ‘centre
strongly rejecting my asse:
Here are excerpts froni'a pertinent
etter sent last month by Alan'Ha
chairman of West: Vancouver
cadvisory design panel, 10 May
Sager_and ‘counci
2 am writing
Shiraz Lalji’s letter in the Febs
1994 edition of the North Sh
' News's... with regard to,
“specific statement: the

trict’s Advisory Desig P Pan

- with Fespect to Larco develop
‘ments,’ The iraplication of th

~ statement is that the (panel) sup-
“ports the specific actions that'Larco’
‘Investments have taken in redevel-

oping Park Royal. !

“The role of the ‘Advisor
; Design Panel, which is made’
design and’ construction. profession
als, is to protect the community
interests. It is with this mandate
that the design panel reviewed the -
.. project. The panel expressed

- concerns regarding a number of key ©
elements of the projects... Due to'
these concerns the panel requested
Larco to attend 20 meetings im»!
-order to resolve outstanding issue:

“As it stands now there are“
"many outstanding issues that still
require resolution: We are disap:
pointed in the process and the:
result, as much of what was,
approved by design panel was fixe)
built and much of what is built
not what the design panel, -
approved. Everything seems: to be;
negotiation.

¢Furthermore, the Advisory
_ Design Panel would also like 10's
make. il clear that we have had nov |
input into the golfing range or the,
modifications to the bowling alle}
or theatre.”

1 pass this on in the interes of
clarifying the panel's s rol