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THE VOICE OF NORTH AND WEST VANCOUVER

Newsstand Price 50¢ May 9, 1982 Tel. 985-2131 Classified 986-6222 .

15 per cent
reduction
ets nixed

By CHRIS LLOYD

HOMEOWNERS in
North Vancouver
District who hoped for
some kind of a taxes

break through the

municipality winning .
assessment reductions ;
for them are now right
back where they :
started. :

And all they are likely to
get out of the whole exercise
is — through their taxes —
the bill for the bitter legal
battle between the
municipality and the
assessment authority.

The assessment appeal
board informed the District
this week that it had
overturned the ecarlter ruling
of the court of revision
which had awarded District
a |S per cent reduction in
the assessed values of
residential land.

Though the total
reduction from individual
tax bills would have been

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chamber to witness it. Doors flap open. Windows

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immediately west of its route of the summer tour fixtures Rats roam the Sunny with cloudy
intersection with 22nd buses, bringing visitors to ruins And, of course, the periods
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