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HIGHLAND DANCERS (left to right) Lindsay Moore, Heidi Kersten, Lew Ross and Valerie
Cheineski invite North Shore residents to celebrate A Day tn Scotland at Watertront Park to-
day, Sunday, Aug. 4, from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Bring the whole tamily and enjoy a fun-filled day

in the park.

Port boss wants $60M dock in Vancouver,
but not necessarily in NV, documents say

CONFIDENTIAL NORTH

Vancouver City documents

obtained by the News reveal that Vancouver Port Corp.
(VPC) chief executive officer Capt. Norman Stark favors
keeping Versatile Pacific Shipyards’ (VPSI) $60-million
floating Panumax dry dock in the port, but not necessarily
at its present North Vancouver location.

And, according te the docu-
ments, Stark believes the dry dock
should stay in the port, bur that
tie federal government should not
hace to purchase the facility, as
has heen proposed by Versagle.

VPSE as hoping to sell the dry

dock for S4ES.8 million to an un.
named buser. Uailine thar, VPSI

By Surj Rattan

News Beporter

wants the federal goveinment ty
bus the dock for $7.4 millon and
has given: Otsu oan Auge. 9
deadline to decide on the dock 's
sale.

The federal government initially
invested over $28 milbon an the
dry dock.

At a recent waterfront: forum
hosted by North Vancouver City,
Stark said the VPC ois considering
developing the Norterm: site at the
foot of St. Patrick’s Avenue in
North Vancouver to handle an in-
crasmy volume of wood. pulp
and paper products being: shipped
through Vancouver.

Vhe Norterm development
would) relocate or close pitt at
VPS? and Whitepass Pranspotia
Gor and Cassia Wharves.

Bur ina daly 2) confidential

report to North Vancouver City
council, Richard White, the city’s
assistant director of planning and
development services, said the
socio-economic and environmental
impact of Norterm should first be
assessed before the VPC is alow-
ed to proceed with the massive
project.

And ina Dee. 10, 1990 report
to city council, White recommends
leaving the Nortermt site alone and
instead developing fhe vacant
Fullerton Fill) site, just south of
the Capilano mall on the witter-
front.

“Rather than) creating more
land in the central area of the ci-
tyis waterfront to serve this future
need, ino the view of stat, it
would be preterable to utilize the
idle dand resource of Pullterton
Pll for port rebated: inddstoad use,

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when and if additional terminal
capacity is needed." wrote White,

Vancouver Port Corp,
spokesman Rarbara Dugean said
the Narterm site is only one of
several options the port is) con.
sidering for a cargo terminal and
that no decision has been made on
the site.

She added that the port would
first consule with both North
Vancouver City aad District be-
fore deciding on which watertront
site (oO Use aS a New cutwo termi.
nal.

In a second contidentuadl memo
randiin, sent from city ad-
ministrator Gerry Brewer to VEST,
Brewer sums up a telephone con
versation between hin and Snark.

In that conversation, Stark savs

See Plan pase §