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Following a 1%-hour public
hearing Monday, North Vancouver
City Council gave second and third
readings to a community plan
amendment that would allow a
combination residential and com-
mercial development to be built on
a five-lot parcel at the corner of
Mackay Avenue and Marine Drive.

City planner Richard White told
the public hearing that the
development would entail the
“stopping up” of the north end of

.. Mackay Road and the’south end of '

Mackay Avenue and diagonally
re-routing the street.

““What is being considered
tonight is the broad usages,’’
White explained to a full galiery.
“Council and the public should
deal with the broad parameters of
the development.””

Project developer Jack Combs

told council that the re-routed .

street was to facilitate the free flow
of traffic to Marine Drive, “‘there-
by alleviating traffic flow to 17th
Street — or 17th freeway as it's

Ui ~ Wednesday, May 28, 1986 - North Shore News

Development go-ahead
angers City residents

A CONTROVERSIAL development has been given the
go-ahead despite protests from some of the area’s residents.

By STEPHEN BARRINGTON
News Reporter

become in the last little while.’’

Combs ‘said he conducted tele-
phone interviews with the adjacent
neighbors as well as held ‘‘infor-
mation meetings’? about the
development. oo

“The consensus was that the
traffic was a major issue on 17th
Street,’? he told the hearing.

But local resident George
Johnstone disagreed and presented
a four-name-: petition to council.
“There’s only four people on our
petition and you can see there’s six
houses on the block,” he said in
teference to the six properties on
17th Street immediately west of
Mackay Avenue.

Johnstone’s main concerns cen-
tred around increased traffic flow
and the danger of accidents on the
new road.

“Seventeenth Street will be
worse than it is now and it’s a
bloody mess now,” he charged. ‘I

don’t think the project is feasible.
It’s dangerous.’’

“The developers don’t give any
continuity to what they’re doing,’
Johnstone said. ‘‘They just build
and take off."”

Deeb Alessa, who lives at the
corner of 17th Street and Mackay
Avenue, warned couicil to take in-
to account the downward slope of
the hill that south-bound motorists
will encounter. .

“It’s very hard to break (coming
down the hill),’’ he told the hear-
ing.

Although he said he. was not
against the proposed development,
Alessa noted that the: re-routing
would serve to ‘‘increase usage of
the roads”’ in the area.

In voting on the amendment,
Ald. Dana Taylor. said the pro-
posal ‘‘has a pafential to solve the
problems’’. associated with traffic
in the area. When Combs’ specific
rezoning application for the site
comes before council, we can be as
demanding as we like.”’

Council is expected to give the
community plan amendment final
approval on June e9.

Scholarship fund supported

THE WILLIAM E, Lucas Scho!-

- arship Committee has received

positive public support.

The committee was set up to
raise monies toward a $20,000
foundation in the name of the first
of North Van-
couver Schools.

The fund would be used to sup-

port an annual scholarship worth ©

spa in the country.

Facilities

include ‘Heights.

$2, 000, which would be available
to graduating’ North Vancouver
students.

‘“It_is very. gratifying to us to
have witnessed the enthusiastic
response of North Shore citizens in
honoring Bil! Lucas’ memory in
this way,’’ said Bill Fromson,
chairman of the Foundation.

“We have collected $15,000 so

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far, and are endeavoring to. meet
our $20,000 target by the end of
June,”’ he added. -

Donations’ can; be™ made. at. all
North Shore Credit Union offices;
as’ well as at the North Vancouver
School Board. Cheques -should be
made out to the: William E; Lucas
Scholarship. Fund. All donations
are tax-deductible, : ois .

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