peti tion nite!

RESIDENTS OF. the 2100
block Palmerston Avenue’ and
Ottawa Avenue. in. West
Vancouver. will -have to
remount their petition if they
want the lane between the two
streets paved.

_WEST VANCOUVER
DISTRICT COUNCIL

‘By Maureen Curtis .-

' At its: Dec. 4 meeting, West
Vancouver District Council termi-
* nated the lane paving bylaw because
of. ‘problems that occurred during
the process of collecting names on a
petition.

“Lane paving projects are, local

initiatives, undertaken only when.

_ residents’. have actively petitioned -
- for them.

The municipality: needed. two-’,, f

iithirds approval from residents .who
“will pay about.70% of the $36,300
cost of the paving work over a five-
; year period...

Last week, one of the residents.
“who supported the paving, said the.
‘group had stopped collecting signa- -
tures when it got two-thirds (12 peo-
“ple-in favorPand submitted its peti
-, tion. ie

idents against the proposal; said that
: antlderly woman had been coerced -:
«into adding her signature. _

© “She feels” she. was. imposed
“upon,” *Hickley told council: me

“Leonard. Hutchinson’ -said . that °

" proponents had ‘offered to help pay.
«the woman’s share of the paving fee.
"We don’t coerce people; partic-

; oa 88-year-old ladies,” said: an‘

“offended Hutchinson. *

‘Coun. “Allan «Williams argued’
* that council should accept the /peti-
tion at face value and carry on with .
-approval of the bylaw,.but he failed’
to win ‘support from fetiow , coun-
cilors.'

"T'm ‘not ‘convinced we have-12.".

favor,” Tesponded Coun. Ron
.. Woad.”’.

Referring , io the: issue as a

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' But Don ‘Hickley, 0 one of the res- °

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“messy situation,” Coun. Diana

Hutchinson spoke in favor of |

restarting the petitioning process.

“If it's a positive thing for the
neighborhood, it won't be a prob-
lem getting the signatures,” she
said. ©

Suggesting that people can feel
coerced just by the strength of
someone's‘ personzlity (and not
necessarily through that person’s

Wednesday, December 13, 1995 ~ North Shore News -

intentions) Coun. Andy Danyliu
said that a member of municipal
staff should approach the woman
who has been uncertain of the issue.

Participation could be achieved
by correspondence, Coun, Pat
Boname proposed.

Boname pointed out that an
elderly person on limited income
might be able to defer the paving
charges, if she so wished.

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