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July 21,1985 News 985-2131 Classified 986-6222

PUBLIC PRESSURE from Anderson Crescent
_ residents has pushed a proposed Eastern religion
church out of the West Vancouver neighborhood.

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Zoroastrian church repre-
sentative K. Alghabi told the
News Friday he doesn’t want
his church 10 be in a hostile
neighborhood.

“The reason we withdrew
our application,’’ Alghabi
said, ‘twas because we didn’t
want to have to fight with
anybody. The neighbors
didn’t like it, so we withdrew
our plans.’*

Alghabi was going to br-
ing his church’s proposal be-
fore West Vancouver
District Council this Mon-
day, but cancelled the pro-
posal.

‘*We hear that at least 140
neighbors have signed a peti-
tion against it,’’ Alghabi
said. ‘Well I’m surprised
that 140 people can be at-
fected by a church because
the site of the church was
only 80 feet away from
Taylor Way, so it wouldn't
have created any traffic.”*

Alghabi says he plans to
find an alternative — site,
“where we are not going to
have the same problem we
have here. We asked the
West Vancouver mayor to
help us find another place
for our church, and he has
given us a meeting time
where we can discuss the
alternatives.”’

By BARRETT FISHER

The church has been
designed by Vancouver ar-
chitect Siegfried Toews, and
conforms to the style of a
residential neigborhood,
Alghabi said.

“The design matches with
the residential character of
the area,’ he said. ‘*The
height, front, side and
backyard were all according
to the bylaw.””

Alghabi said a model of
the church was made up and
located at district hall so
people could see what the
building would look like.

““Most of the people who
were against the church had
no idea how the’ building
would even look.”

One of the neighbors
against the church, earlier
quoted in the News but who
does not wish his name to be
printed, said he was pleased
by the church’s decision to
withdraw from the area.

“1 think that’s good,’’ he
said, “but | hope they find a
more suitable location. I
hone they find an area that’s
compatible for a church in
terms of traffic and the
amount of people in the
neighborhood."’

CLEAN BILL OF HEALTH RETURNED

NORTH SHORE beaches have once again been
given a clean bill of health.

As of Friday noon, Deep
Cove’s Panorama Beach
re-opened to public bathing.
The beach was closed July 5
when a monthly averaging of
fecal coliform counts in
Deep Cove Bay waters
ballooned over the max-
imum allowable level of 200
units per 100 millilitres of sea
water. At one point
Panorama coliform counts
rocketed to 1,240.

Bill Kimmett, senior

health inspector. for the
North Shore, said Friday
new test samples had shown
coliform levels at Panorama
to be as low as 20 resulting
in a new average of 107 units
per 100 millilitres.

Though he could not say
why there had been such a
dramatic turnaround in col-
iform percentages, Kimmett

said indications were thet a
Health Department order to
Deep Cove Yacht Club ad-
vising them to instruct all
boaters to refrain from
flushing toilets while moored
in the Deep Cove Bay, had
played a major role in reduc-
ing coliform levels.

Kimmett said a meticulous
search of the Deep Cove
area and the various creeks
emptying into the Deep Cove
Bay conducted by a combin-
ed team of District of North
Vancouver engineering staff
and Health Department per-

sonnel had failed to turn up
any other coliform sources.
“The logical conclusion
from our search and its neg-
ative findings would point to
boats in the bay as the col-
iform source, but it would
be extremely difficult to
prove that absolutely.” ;
The re-opening of
Panorama Beach follows a
similar re-opening of West
Vancouver's Eagle Harbour
Beach on July 12. The West
Vancouver beach was closed
on July 8, suffering from the
same coliform malady.