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LGH expansion,
view ‘shortsighted’

Dea f dito:
Se Ald. Bill Bell is piqued thar

the Droan’s Cagte Hospital Board
didi mer consuls with fio and
North Vancouver Cry Coutnetl

tinstiover There planned ex pinsian,
espectalls stree at mas Gost the erty
aodew dollars in tas revenue it
council goes along with no North
Shore News, July 18.)

Maybe he and Ald. Dean
Should talk to one of the LGH
doctors about their chronic short.
hess of sight. Whether they see it
or not. Lions Gate Hospital serves
a darger community than just the
city,

In Bells misopic view, it ts a
“hallassed backwards’? approach
to consul with protessional ar.
chitects and engineers, evaluate
demographics, cost variables and
work How patterns over a three:
year pertud. gise detailed study to
three alternative proposals and
then select an opti that works
best for othe patients and the
available budget before talking te
him

It appears be could have advis-
ed them, tor free. ta stay within
therr existing boundaries,
regardless of practicality. which
would have saved the board the
“tons of money" they wasted on
expert advice.

He and Ald. Dean also seem to
regard it as reprehensible that the
hospital and the LGH Foundation
have been far-sighted enough to
acquire adjacent properties alony
the only logical path to accom-
modate a hospital expansion Uhat
any sane person could have
predicted as inevitable, given the
exponential growth that has oc-
curred on the North Shore over
the last ten years.

Maybe they also recognized
that, too often in the past, they
have been forced to adopt quick-
fix solutions for immediate prob-
lems and these have inevitably
imposed compromises on long-

Letter to the editor corrected

DUE TO an editing error in last

Sunday’s Mailbox section, the
North Shore News incorrectly

stated that Marie Moscovitch was
the current: president of the West
Vancouver SPCA. In her letter,
Ms. Moscovitch had in fact writ-
ten that she was president from
1972-85.

Kenneth Griffiths, who has
been president of the West Van-
couver SPCA since 1985, told the
News that the West Vancouver
SPCA’s spokesperson on the issue

Wit

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Vast personal profit, thes are call-
ed shrewd. When a hospital does
it ta be able to better serve the
community of which itis a part. at
is accused af being arrogant aad
manipulamve.

Ald. Dean states thar [CHL tras
aostaffing problem now and asks
how Hohapes to cope with an ex.
panded tacitly. But the present
staffing problem will be nothing
to the one thar will are if she
and Ald. Bell succeed in foremy
the inevitabie expansion fa be
rammed inte the confines of the
present site

Statt understandabh put
out when focker space and showe:
fucthties are converted te other
uses. Reo matier how worthy. With
the constraints these aldermen
proposes, thes would ther
cafeteria and pay parking as well,

AN omodern facility, offen the
best of amenities tor patients and
staff alike. is Tikely to prove a
vastly supener recruiting tool than
is tinkering with the present out-
moded structure to save a few tan
dollars.

So. a zoning change is required
to the Officiat Community Plan
for the hospital to expand onto
land that it already owns. Only
the very naive believe that plans
can never change to meet new
conditions,

Aldermen Dean and Bell might
do well to reflect on the adage
that rules are made for the obe-
dience of foots and the guidance
of wise men. When their vision
has been restored, they should
cast their eves at the new con-
struction that) is mushrooming
along Esplanade to find a
replacement for the minimal tax
loss they fear,

Terry Marshall
North Vancouver

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of cevotes is director Marsha
Nixon.

Said Griffiths: “‘The SPCA, the
Department of the Environment,
the president of the British Pro-
perties Association und the pro-
vincial office of the SPCA are all
in favor of humane contro) of
these animals (coyotes), as are
hundreds of residents who have
fost valued and much foved pets.”

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