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Neighbourhood disrupted by NV party house

Kevin Gillies
News Reporter

NORTH Vancouver
City is prepared to take
legal action against an
illegal suite owner
whose tenants have
caused their neighbours
great distress.

City councillors voted last
week to apply for a court
injunction to shut down the
illegal suite at 460 East 9th

St. which has been the site of

several loud parties in the last
four months.

At last’) week's council
Mecting city staff was updat-
ing councillors on the
progress of bringing the suite
into compliance with city
bylaws when Couns. Stella Jo
Dean and Darrell Mussatto
said that area resident hed
told them of a recent house
party at the house involving
200 youths that kept neigh-
bours awake all night.

“This has been going on
since February,” neighbour
Don McDermid recently told
the News.

He said he has sent three
letters to the city secking
help. “The police have been
up to this house about half a
dozen times.”

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of 200 involved fighting at
the end of his daveway and
ears blocking the intersection
of 9th Streez and Moody
Avenue. He said the police
had to be called in to shut the
party down.

“My wite wis home alone
and she called ¥-1-1 because
she was petrified something
was going to happen,” said
MeDermid.

Ee said a woman with two
teenaged chuldren five in che
upstairs af the house while
five individuats, each around
19 years of age, rent the
downstairs.

The must recent incident,
he said, was a party TL days
ago “which went on until
four o” clock in the morning
with about 50 to 60 peoole
— Pm talking about yvourks
— yoing on in the back-
yard.”

Neighbours were consid-
ering legal action against the
property owner as a last
recourse. Fle said he has pur-
sucd all the legal routes he
could without remedy.

“ir just goes on and on,”
McDermid said, adding thar
he has deale with the city, the
health department and the
police.

“We have just been frus-
trated no matter which way
we go.”

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City director of develop.
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said, “I think theyre receiv:
ing them in writing and by
telephone calls from T don’t
know how many neigh
bours.”

Neighbourhood = com-
plaints initially drew city
attention to the house for a
May 10 city inspection, which
determined that the suite had
been added without proper
city approvals.

Homeawaer
Kazemi was
contacted.

He told city officials he
would move into rhe base-
ment suite, or have his broth-
cr move in, and apply tor the
appropriate rermits to fegal-
ize the suite.

He also told them the ten-
ants had been ordered to
vacate the premises. But last
week council voted to acceler-
ate the process by filing the
court application.

“Basically what they said
was get on with the entorce-
ment process,” Smith said.
“It’s not happening quick
enough. There's ongoing
neighbourhood = disruption
because of the situation
there.”

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Mayor Jack Loucks said
there was a need for “fast
action” in endorsing the deci-
sion.

“We need to be faic and
just,” he said, adding that that
applics to the neighbours as
much as the property owner.

“That is music to our ears,”
McDermid said when the
News told him of councii’s
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“These parties are an ongo-
ing thing and it’s going to get
worse as summer goes on.”

But Smith said the city is
ready.

“If we decide we need to
use it (injunction), be it in a
week or two weeks, we can do
so,” he said. “If we're noc
getting immediate compli-
ance we will proceed with this
injunction.”

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