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$2.8M buys 13 lots
from BC Rail in
Fagleridge area

WEST VANCOUVER District Council has
agreed unanimously to purchase 13 lots on
an easement owned by BC Rail in West
Vancouver’s Eagleridge area for approxi-
mately $2.8 million, thereby securing for
public use a much-valued recreation area.

By Maureen Curti

Contributing Writer

Added to other lots purchased earlier this year. the
municipality's expenditure for the unused rail ease-
ment, including Seaview Walk. is naw approximately
$4.8 million.

“These ore very favorable prices.” West Vancouver

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DAVID SHAUGHNESSY, 12, had a wild time on the loopy waterslide at Lonsdale recre-
ation centre Sunday, screaming around the corner and shooting out into the pool.

New rec centre delayed

THE PURCHASE of a further 6.5

a new recreation centre in the western part
of West Vancouver.

“But not for more than a year” West
Vancouver Mayor Mark Sager said.

There had been plans to build a new

Western recreation centre by the end of

1997 to replace the Eagle Harbor facility
the municipality used before West
Vancouver's School District 45 took the
building back for its own tse.

Land adjacent to Caulbetld middle
school, now under construction, was being
considered as the focation of the recreation
centre,

“The site was going lo be costly to
level, and we would have been cramming a
lot into a small area.” said Sager.

According co West Vancouver Parks

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acres of
BC Rail land will delay the development ol

and Recreation Director Kevin Pike, coun-
ceils lind acquisitions opposite the

Gleneagles golf course are relatively flat
and could geconimodate a recreation build-
ing in the 25,000 sq ft. (2.323 sq.m) range.

Although there would probably not be
room for an ice rink or a pool, the new
Facility could replace what was fost in the
old Eagle Harbor community centre, Pike
said.

The development of the new centre may
be delayed, but the extra lands bought from
BCR Properties will allow for more open
Space, a playing field and perhaps more
parking.

“Any additional Jand purchases are wel-
come because of the shortage of recreation-
al dand in the western part of the oiunici-
pality and general shortage of fat land any-
where in West Vancouver,” said Pike.

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