— wee NVD planner quits over planning decisions | resigned in the wake of an increasing number of ‘‘ad hoc’’ planning decisions being made at district hall. Said Kreuchen, who has worked in the municipal planning depart- ment for the past 20 years: ‘‘It wasn’t because of any onc issue. After 20 years you’re not disheartened about one issue. | have enormous faith in the system. When the really wrong decisions are made, they are corrected.”’ But he said, ‘‘The last three years or so, I’ve felt the planning process hasn’t been as effective as it should have been.” According to Kreuchen, vocal and effective one-issue lobby groups have made _ long-term community planning increasingly problematic. ‘‘They have enor- mous resources and enormous energy — far more than a municipal staff can muster. They’re very good at manipulating the media as well. The voice of teason doesn’t make for good news headlines and so it doesn’t get as much coverage. “A number of decisions are nowadays being taken on an ad- hoc basis. When that happens over a period of time it gets disillusion- ing,’” he said. While he concedes that land-use planning is rightly an emotional issue, Kreuchen perceives a shift towards more confrontation in the district. ‘“There is very little listen- ing and a lot of shouting,’’ Kreuchen said. The district has lately drawn a lot of heat from residents opposed to the large residential develop- ment proposed for the Inter-River area between Lynn Creek and Seymour River. A development proposed for the Dellarton foreshore Matsumoto Shipyard site was scuttled after vehernent protest from residents. . Sustained lobbying by the North Shore Public Golf Course Society has district council rethinking resi- dential development plans for its Seymour area Northlands neighborhcod plan. Staff have been ordered not to publicly discuss the controversial Inter-River area development pro- posal but Kreuchen can talk about Northlands. Frank Baker A MEMORIAL service was held today at Shaughnessy Heights Unit- ed Church for Frank Baker, one of the brightest, most colorful lights ever to shine in the North Shore and Lower Mainland area restaurant business. Mr. Baker died Tuesday of cancer. He was 67. Perhaps best known to North Shore residents and diners as the owner of the Attic restaurant in West Vancouver, Mr. Baker had also at one time owned West Vancouver’s Park Royal Hotel and, in partnership with Frank Bernard, the Georgian Towers in Vancouver. Blessed with a special flair for show business and promotional sparkle, he purchased the Aston Martin driven by James Bond in the film Goldfinger and kept the car on display at the Attic. His most recent restaurant, Frank Baker’s, opened in 1983 in Vancouver. passes away By MICHAEL BECKER News Reporter Northlands, located west of Mt. Seymour Road and north of Mt. Seymour Parkway, was originally envisioned as a new neighborhood for upwards of 3,000 people. The design incorporated a mix of single and multi-family development as well as a school site, a church site and park area. But said Kreuchen: ‘‘The reper- cussions of putting a golf course on Northlands are stupendous. It would mean a major departure from the policy we are following with the Seymour Official Com- munity Plan. Some of that would have to be rewritten and rethought. That doesn’t mean to say there isn’t room for a golf course somewhere in the district and there may be a very valid reason to have a golf course. To try and combine the golf course with the neighborhood at the ex- pense of all the community facili- ties, to my mind is going too far.” Kreuchen sees the new 1100- housing unit Indian River neighborhood as 2 planning suc- cess story. Municipal staff and council pursued a plan which took into account the unique geographical attributes of the area and with the refining input of those living in the neighborhood, came up with somethirg a little different. “It’s a concept that the council of the day bought in to. We almost religiously implemented it. Those living there are pleased with it. They like the pathways, the fact that the neighborhood park acts like a neighborhood park, dif- ferent housing densities are inter- mingled rather than segregatec,’’ he said. According to Kreuchen, Indian River was the first of the major district neighborhoods built on a planning philosophy responding to the natural environment. ‘There are substantial conservation areas tight in the neighborhood. That’s our heritage. I’m very proud of that,’ he said. FRANK BAKER Mr. Baker also served as a Vancouver City alderman from 1956 to 1962. He was a genuine character and an inexhaustible promoter of Vancouver all his life. Columnist Joy Metcalfe pays special tribute to Mr. Baker in today’s News. See page 9. na 0 a capb-ANCCOLLEGE STRIK’ : COLLEG Sy . Caring, Cone 3 - Friday, November 24, 1989 - North Shore News NEWS photo OFFICE & Technical Employees’ Union (OTEU) pickets remained at Capilano College Thursday, although talks between the college and the union resumed Wednesday. Union negotiator Bob Donnelly (far right) ad- dresses part of the OTEU membership on Tuesday, when the union initiated job action at the college. CAPILANO COLLEGE STRIKE Contract talks CONTRACT TALKS resumed late Wednesday and con- tinued through the night between Capilano College and negotiators for the striking Office and Technical Employees’ Union (OTEYV) Local 378. Following an adjournment Thursday morning, negotiations were scheduled to begin again at ‘5 p.m. Thursday. But OTEU spokesman Paula Stromberg said Wednesday afternoon picket lines will remain at the college until a settlement has been reached. Negotiations were restarted after lines of communication were reopened between the two sides. Geoff Holter, the college's director of employee relations, sent a letter Wednesday to the union reiterating a request from the college to resume bargaining. In the letter, Holter said the union had yet to respond to the college’s Nov. 14 contract offer, which, he said, addressed all out- standing iscues in negotiations between the two sides. . On the same day, the OTEU News Reporter sent the college a new contract proposal after attending a press conference organized Tuesday by the Capilano College Student Society. Representatives of the student society accused the college of dragging its feet on the negotia- tions and called for an immediate settlement in the dispute. Stromberg declined to release any details of the union’s new proposal. The OTEU, which represents support staff at the college, wants wage increases comparable to those negotiated by the col- lege’s faculty in April, which it claims total 23 per cent over 33 months. But union representatives have resume said the strike is over the col- lege’s demand fcr what the union calls major concessions in con- tract language stipulating hours of work and how promotions are made. The college’s latest three-year contract offer included wage in- creases of 6.2 per cent as of Nov. 1, 1989, 5.0 per cent on Nov. 1, 1990 and an additional four per cent on Nov. 1, 1991. The OTEU, which has calculated the college’s offer at 17.0 per cent over three years, wants 16.6 per cent over two years. Most of the union’s 170 members employed at Capilano College are currently paid be- tween $14.33 and $16.38 per hour. Classes for virtually all of the college’s 5,000 students were halted Tuesday morning when OTEU picket lines were set up around the college. —- The previous two-year contract between the college and its sup- port staff expired in October. NV FIRM LANDS $1M JAPANESE DEAL More Newtsuits sold NORTH VANCOUVER-*ased International Hard Suits Inc. (IHSI) has landed a $i million deal to sell three of its Newtsuit atmospheric diving suits to a Japanese company. IHS!?’s sale to Toyama Divers is its second to the Japanese com- pany, and represents the first repeat Newtsuit sale. Toyama is an associate company of Japan’s Fuji Co. Ltd., which purchased two Newtsuits in March 1988. HHS! sales manager J. Scott Morrison said Thursday the latest deal with Toyama includes the three suits, worth an estimated $750,000, and the sale of 250,000 shares of IHSI common stock, worth an additional $250,000. It represents, he said, the largest single Newtsuit order thus far for THSI. Editorial Page.......... 6 Home & Garden......... 13 0 23) =Mailbox...... cee eeeeee 7 Classified Ads.......... 29 What's Going On........ 22 By TIMOTHY RENSHAW News Reporter The North Vancouver company has now sold 25 Newtsuits to various diving operations around the world, including two to the Canadian Navy. IHSI president Phil Nuytten said in a press release he was particular- ly pleased with the sale to Toyama Divers because the company was “the first to have a pair of Newtsuits actually operating in the field. They are now booked far ahead with projects for their ex- isting suits and their opinion on how well the suits performed is best evident by this second order.” The U.S. Navy has put the Newtsuit through extensive testing, and Morrison said it plans to pur- chase an estimated $1 million worth of the dive suits later this year or early in £990. Nuytten, who is also the presi- dent and founder of North Van- couver’s Can Dive Services Ltd., developed the Newtsuit from 1979 to 1986. It enables divers to work at dep- ths of up to 1,000 feet without having to undergo decompression. IHSI, which is also developing a lightweight version of the Newtsuit, has estimated that Newtsuit sales over the next six years could range up to $60 mil- lion, WEATHER Friday, cloudy with sunny periods. Chance of showers. Saturday rain. Highs near 9. Second Class Registration Number 3885