Group homes bylaw faces wait

Neighborhood approval key issue

| North Vancouver will

ve to, wait over three
months tor a unified group
homes bylaw - and only
then, if the two councils can
agree on one.

. North Vancouver City
council last week dealt with
a request by North Van
District Mayor Don Bell that
the two councils meet to try
and come up with a joint
policy on group homes.

City Mayor Jack Loucks
said the two councils would
not be able to hold a joint
meeting until at least the end
of August or early Sep-
tember.

After that, indications
from City staff are that if a
joint bylaw was agreed
upon, it would take about
two months after that, for
this bylaw to become legal.

Bell is concerned that if
the group home bylaws on
the North Shore are not

standardize’, the District,
which has more lenient
bylaw, wil ome a

“haven” for group homes.
Mayor Loucks said Bell's

main concern is that “we

(City council) may take

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The West Vancouver Fire
department has issued a
reminder to North Shore

- residents that beach fies are
prohibited on all beaches in
the muncipality, with the
exception of Ambleside.

A department spokesman
said beach fires are only

unilateral action without
talking to them.”

Council agreed not to take
any action on their draft
group homes bylaw until the
Advisory Planning Com-
mission had commented on
it, and until they had met
with District council.

Loucks said that because
two council members were
absent on Monday night, the
issue of neighbourhood
approval should not be
discussed at that time.

APPROVAL

The main difference
between the City and the
District’s bylaws and the
main stumbling block for
establishing a joint bylaw, is
the question of neigh-
borhood approval.

While the City requires
that a simple majority - of
neighbors approve of a
group home in an area, no
such neighborhood approval

is required by the District.

Despite Loucks’ request,
two City aldermen did
comment on the question of
neighborhood approval and

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both said they approved of

Alderman Eiko Kroon and
Stella Jo Dean both said they
felt that neighborhood
approval did not hinder
groups trying to. establish
group homes.

Kroon said maybe they
should get away from the
connotations that the word
‘group homes’ might have in
a community by using the
term ‘special residential
homes’.

Frank Morris, the City’s
director of permits and
licenses.said he didn’t think
it made much difference
what they called them.

Mayor Bell wants a unified
bylaw in order that group
homes in North Van do not
have to be dealt with on an
individual basis.

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Avenue is currently awaiting

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final approval but District
council has made it clear
that they regard a joint
bylaw as a priority.

North Vancouver City
Administrator Ed Raymond
outlined the procedure that
would have to be undertaken
if a joint bylaw was -agreed
upon and said this process

would take about two
months.
If the two councils

decided on a joint bylaw,
this bylaw would have to be
prepared by staff, then
referred to the Advisory
Planning Commission for
comment, then referred to a
public hearing, and finally
adopted by council.
Currently, the staff of the

two municipalities are not:

working on a joint bylaw but
are keeping each other
informed on what is hap-

pening.

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