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Crime increase allegations upset NVD co-op residents

ALLEGATIONS LINKING Deep Cove single-parent fam-

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the North Vancouver District community have outraged

area co-op residents.

Said Deep Cove Community Association (DCCA) president Brian Charlton, “‘Down here we don’t have the services to accom- modate. Obviously the parents have to work so they (the children) are going to be unsuper- vised. We just don’t want to have a whole bunch of co-op housing if it’s going to create a bad influence on society.

“If we have another 20 co-op

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home lots. To me that seems like pretty prime area.”’

O'Neill is circulating a petition that a delegation of co-op repre- sentatives expects to present to council in support of the co-op development proposed for the old

44 It's like a small town here. They would like people to stay out of their cove. It’s so

ignorant. It’s definitely social bigotry. 99 —-Co-op resident Moira O'Neill

housing complexes going out here, to me, it sounds like why don’t we just go out and get a major prison built?’’ he added.

Charlton said North Vancouver District is lacking planning foresight: ‘‘We’d basically like to try and get some sort of policy from North Vancouver about where co-ops are going. Are they just going to dump them on open spare land or try and mix them throughout the district? It just seems like we are an area that’s being zoned-in on.””

But said Moira O’Neill, a mother of two young children liv- ing in the 90-unit River Woods Co-op in Deep Cove, ‘It’s like any bigot — they take an identifiable minority and paint them all with the same brush. One stroke and just say you’re not worthy.””

A. proposal to construct a 50- unit co-op on the North Van- couver District-owned site of the old Burrard View Elementary School is under consideration at district hall.

The proposal provided the latest flashpoint in a community ex- periencing a stepped-up pace of residential Gevelopment in general.

Added O'Neill, ‘‘It’s like a small town here. They would like people to stay out of their cove. {vs so ignorant. It’s definitely social bigotry. If the proposal was for luxury townhomes they wouldn’t be saying those kinds of things.”’

But said Charlton, ‘‘We want to see what the options are for (the Burrard View property). Someone told me that there are probably the equivalent of 31 single-family

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Burrard View site.

She also plans to attend a meeting next week of the Deep Cove Community Association to address Charlton’s position on co-ops in the community.

Said O'Neill, ‘‘We feel these statements to be slanderous and don’t want to be branded as second-class citizens. Our co-ops are full of people of all backgrounds and before you start slinging mud at us please remember what a person of lower income once said, ‘Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.”

But said Charlton, ‘‘We’re not trying to discriminate. The district is not providing the facilities to go along with them — Dorothy Lynas (elementary school) has got portables. It creates an overflow. | know we did come out a little bit strong saying that without the parental supervision we're getting more crime from co-ops — that’s not altogether true. You can get bad kids from any sort of homes. But I have talked to people who do work with the RCMP and they have said that there are a couple of co-ops out here where they have all sorts cf problems.”’

But said North Vancouver District alderman and police liai- son committee member Ensnie Crist: ‘‘This aspect of there is more crime here because co-ops are here is totally and absolutely unjustified. In fact the opposite is true. There is a tendency among people who live in co-ops to coo- perate and eliminate undesirable elements far more than there is in single-family residential.’’

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