EDNESDAY April 24, 1996 NORTH VANCOUVER DISTRICT COUNCI:i By Martin Millerchip THERE WILL be no medi- um or high-density redevel- opment of the Deep Cove- Dollarton waterfront. But development at the Nobic Towing-McKenzie barge site could stil! include a nine-storey residential apart- ment block. That's the upshot of Monday's deci- sions by North Vancouver District Council on unadopted sections of the Waterfront Task Force Phase (WTF) | report. Council adopted the report in January as “a generally accepted poli- cy” but deferred diree suggested policy sections for further discussion. Staff suggested Monday that the statement “preserve the character of the area by not allowing medium or high- density redevelopment of the water- front be referred to the East Seymour Official Community Plan review in 1997-98. Instead council adopted the policy with Mayor Murray Dykeman and Coun. Pat Munroe opposed. ‘The report’s recommendation for the retention of industrial zoning at Cates Landing pending completion of an Industrial Land Strategy was ditched. The report suggested future mixed-use redevelopment with marine, employ- ment, recreational, commercial. park and “minor residential” components. But staff argued Monday that “the majority use of the site has to be resi- dential” and deleted the word “minor.” Assistant Manager of Planning Jim Masterton says it is doubtful if the WTP proposal could gencrate the land values to substantiate the highly expensive cleanup of past industrial pollution the site requires. United Properties’ Jatest development proposal for the site, which is adjacent to Cates Park. includes a marina, public park and at nine-storey apartment building. Said Save Our Shores spokesman David Sadler: “What [| find morally repugnant is that they based their deci- sion ona statf report that is biased. The whole report, which (Coun. Don) Bell asked for in January, seems custom- made to allow the Cates project to go forward.” Weather | Thursday: Cloudy, sunny periods } High 14°C, low 6'C. or " fn NEWS photo Mike Wakefield Big bust NORTH VANCOUVER RCMP Const. Al Steinhauser shows some of the drug haul made by police on Friday. Two hundred mature pot plants were taken from a floating boat shed at Mosquito Creek Marina. Hydroponic cultivation equip- ment was found. The plants are worth about $1,000 each. To press time there were no arrests. Police were tipped off by the odor emanating from the shed. BY [AR ROBLE Mews Reporter A FOOD fight is simmering at many of the grocery stores favored by North Shore shoppers. ‘Talks between Save-On Food and Drugs and Safeway and their unionized: staff adjourned while members of Local 1518 and Local 2000 of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW) took a strike vote yesterday and today. Tom Fawkes, director of communications for Local ISES of the UFCW, said the two sides are sul fer apart after avarly a month of ciks, Whether the stores will close is speculation at this point, said Fawkes. “Just because we take a strike vote doesn't mean we dre going ta go on strikes he said. However, Safeway public relitions officer Toby Oswatd said “the union's decision to esca- late negotiations to another level” brings the tvo sides closer toa Jabor dispute. Fawkes said the union opposes concessions sought by management including a $2-per-hour rollback which would beconie effective immedi- ately. He said $1.54 of that is in cash. with the rest in benefits and hours. That would be fol- lowed by more than a $4-an-hour reduction over what is expected to be a three-year agreement. said Pawk Fawk d union menibers are looking fora aye increase and improvements to their pen- signs and seniority, He added it would be unfair to disclose the salaries of unionized workers Duo dinged for travel sales claims BY ANNA MARIE D’AMGELO News Reporter EXAGGERATED SALES pitches have cost the owners of a North Vancouver pyramid travel business $70,000 in fines on Monday. During meetings held in 1994 in Barrie, Ontario. and Edmonton, Alberta, Investors Choice salesmen told participants that they could make 750% profit on a $500 invest- ment or $28.000 in three weeks. One of the salesmen said the business paid 5.000 people $2.5 million for cight weeks of work selling travel vouchers. The claims were not Hlegal. What was illegal. under the Canadian Competition Act, however, was not men- Uoning what the “typical person” would make under the multi-level marketing plan. “These (pyramid) plans are actually outlawed in parts of the United States.” said Crown lawyer Jay Straith during sen- tencing in North Vancouver provincial court, Investors Choice’s business officers and shareholders are brothers David and Nathan Kalenuik of North Vancouver. The company’s address. 971 Baycrest Dr. in Deep Cove. is also president David Kalenuik’s home, according to court evi- dence. Investors Choice Product Brokerage Lid. (carrying on business as Fortune in Motion) pleaded guilty to two of five See Plea page & ers because wage rates depend on clussifications, seniority and whether the employee is full-time or pirt-time. However, Overwaitea Food Group public rele- tions coordinator Julie Dickson said her chain, which operates Save-On. must address the wage disparity bewween Overwaitea and competilors. “We must deal with this gap now or our future competitiveness jn the B.C. marketplace wil} be in jeopardy,” she said. Safeway’s Oswald appears equally deter- mined. “Even a strong strike vate... will not deter us from towering our labor costs and leveling the playing Geld with our non-union and sub-stan- dard union competitors.” she said. Other North Shore grocers —- both large and stall --- hope they wilh be the winners in the labor dispute.