Wednesday, November 27, 1991 — North Shore News - 5

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Man killed

A 30-YEAR-OLD North Vancouver man died in a fatal
motor vehicle accident along the Squamish Highway
Tuesday mouraing.

A Squamish RCMP spokesman seid the man, whose
nume was being withheld until notification of next of
kin, was travelling northbound along the highway at ap-
proximately 10:30 a.m. when his vehicle was involved in
a head-on crash with a southbound vehicle being driven
by a 53-yez2r-old Squamish man.

The accident closed ihe highway for about an hour.

The potice investigation into the accident is continuing.

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A DEC. 9 public hearing has been set for the latest OAC
revamped proposal to rezone a Garrow Bay property in : a
West Vancouver and stop the operation of the Cham-
pague Tastes retail clothing business from a marina-
zoned boathouse. /

The current proposal, negotiated between the owner,
the municipality and a residents’ group, creates a new lot
that the owner can develop and enshrines areas of public and more! ,
use and access (o the scuthern end of the site.

The municipality will be able to recreate the public ; MEMBERSHIP TRADE-INS ACCEPTED
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The proposal also calls for the moving of the boat- coe . “o e ~ :
house, the relocation of the retail business and the
reconfiguration of the lots so that all three front onto
the beach.

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Project pondered

A PROPOSAL for an assisted senjors housing project on
the edge of the WNorgate area does not fit within any ex-
isting North ‘Vancouver District residential zoning
categories.

Council witi therefore consider the creation of a new
high-density zone allowing an increase in the number of
units per acre in order to accommodate the proposal for

’ @ 36-unit, three-level apartment buiiding on the northeast
corner cf West 16th. Avenue and Bridgeman Road.

Lucas Anderson Construction and the Capilano Lions
Housing Society will be sequired to hold a public infor-
mation meeting in Norgate some time in December before

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NVC approves $20,000
Lower Lonsdale study

WITH THE receipt of a
provincial grant to examine
the possible revitalization of
the Lonsdale Avenue core,
North Vancouver City
Council recently approved a
$20,000 study of the area,
even though some Lonsdale
businesspeople may net
want to be revitalized.

By Pameta Lang
Contributing Writer

The $20,000 study will deter-
mine a strategy for revitalizing the

pedestrian shopping areas of .

Lower and Central Lonsdale
Avenue. The provincial grant will
pay for half of that cost.

But Ald. Rod Clark took issue
with initiating another revitaliza-
tion study in the area.

“They (the merchants) feel
revitalized to death,’’ he said.

Some Lower Lonsdale mer-
chants won’t finish paying for a
mid-’80s_ revitalization plan until
1997. That plan was the same
program now being considered,
but it was restricted to a smaller
area.

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Clark also pointed out that
council has yet to make a decision
regarding heritage guidelines for
the Lower Lonsdale core; he said
those guidelines and the merchant
interest should be determined be-
fore the study proceeds.

But Ald. Barbara Perrault said
the area needs some visual im-
provements, and to do that coun-
cil needs some focus and direc-
tion.

The study will involve public
participation from both Central
and Lower Lonsdale merchants,
with the Chamber of Commerce,
the Economic Development
Commission and the Arts Com-
mission being consulted from the
Start, according to a Nov. 6 report
from Gary Penway of the city’s
development services department.

“It is essential to have the sup-
port of the business community,”’
he said.

The idea for a study of the
Lonsdale core and the possible
revitalization plan stemmed from
a recent report on establishing

design guidelines for the historic

Lower Lonsdale core.

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