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_ September 8, 1985 News 985-2131 Classified 986-6222

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THE LOWER Capilano Residents Association is rallying to save its neighborhood.

‘ Association members complain, control. of their area. has-.fallen into the hands of. developers.

-They’ also. contend the. North | Vancouver ”: District planning department is their

o charges

By ROSS ME

: worst enemy.

‘ What was once a quiet backwater neighborhood ad- jacent to rushing Marine

THE B.C. Ministry of Environment will not be laying charges against the North Vancouver com- pany that spifled a highly toxic chemical soup into

Lynn Creek.

Ken Fraser, environmen- tal enforcement coordinator for the ministry, says as far as the ministry’s investiga- tion into the spill is concern- ed, “the file is closed. We

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have no plans for any legal .

action because, though we have a very good idea where

Drive and Capilano Road is threatened by developers seeking to take advantage of the area’s central! location by building high profit con- dominiums, apartments or townhouses.

The residents complain district staff, pressured by developers and their own

the spill originated, we do not have enough evidence to lay any charges.’’

The spill was discovered July 9 when a team of fed- eral Fisheries and Wildlife personnel, in the course of moving salmon from a sec- tion of the North Vancouver creek being worked on by North Van

District crews,

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planning priorities, are pro- moting unwanted change without listening to what residents want.

PRESSURE FOR CHANGE But district planner Kai

Kreuchen says the pressure for change on the area north

. NEWS photo Stuart Davis °°: 8°

laid in toxic

stumbled upon the chemical flushing directly into ihe

-creek from a 21-inch storm,

sewer pipe. © FISH DIED

Though no fish were discovered in creek waters below the spill and fish subsequently tested in a

of Marine Drive and east of Capilano Road is coming from within the neighborhood not from without.

“A lot of pressure has come internally,” said. ‘‘People are selling and others are splitting the lots and building.

“The residents want to

‘forestall that, but we feel it’s

a natural evolution. We say let’s take advantage of it.”

While the residents’ group is against increasing the den- sity, it would like to see im- provements. But their im- provements include tighter control of through traffic, construction of playgrounds, preservation of boulevards and design control over new buildings.

“What we want sums up to a neighborhood,”’ said resident Jerome Irwin.

DESTABILIZATION

The residents contend planners and developers are *“destablizing the neighborhood,"’ by allowing

‘residences to become rental

accommodation, an inter-

er:qu : “passes one of his job’ flyers,’

Kreuchen .

mediate step before developers gobble up houses, replacing them- with con- dominiums, apartments or townhouses.

Multi-family houses, ‘‘Vancouver specials,"’ are being constructed on sub- divided lots. Ard even after complaints are registered, building inspectors do little to impede developers, say residents.

One resident complains a developer was so brash he constructed a house with two front doors.

While District council has already decided to employ a consultant to study the area, the residents association is taking their concerns to council.

They have -requested - to Present an audio-visual to council at September 16’s regular meeting. They will also be present at the September 9 meeting when council decides on a consul- tant for their study.

After years of reacting to crisis situations the group says it will keep. up the Pressure to protect its neighborhood. .

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across Canada, toa client. entering Canada. Employ: y ment. Officials from’. Canada Employment: ‘asked’. - f Feay to leave the vestibule.in front. of the premises, and. when he did not,: :théy* called police. See story,~

page! ‘three.

solution of the highly acid spill chemical died within 10

minute., ministry investiga--

tions have failed to establish whether any fish were killed in the spill.

“As far as we’re concern- ed no fish were killed,’’ Fraser says.

The source of the spill has

been narrowed down to one.

of three electroplating businesses. located along Charlotte Road in ..North Vancouver. According to Fraser, however, ascertaining beyond a‘ reasonable doubt exactly which of the businesses was responsible See No