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members. spoke ‘against the’: proposal, backing solid op- position of ‘area™'residents. Because two-thirds of council would have to approve plans covering the proposal, that aspect of the plan appears to be dead,

The heart of the matter is contained in the Marine Drive Corridor Study, one.in a series of community plans being developed.

The corridor, study, ‘cur-| rently, before council for con- sideration, calls for the con- servation designation to be applied. to the Pemberton Heights bank area to preserve it as much as possible in its present condition.

While such a proposal, if adopted by council, would not interfere with property development at current zon- ings, it would prohibit zoning changes that would increase residential density.

It would effectively freeze residential development at the current level of 12,000 square foot lots.

While Ald. John Ball, Joan Gadsby and Mike Lakes argued against it, Mayor Marilyn Baker backed the report’s proposal, disputing arguments that the designa- tion would limit property owner rights and lower pro- perty values.

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TOO ) MUCH ATTENTION is paid by the media to opponents of the government’s restraint program who claim to represent ‘“‘the average person’’ but, in fact, are primarily interested in confrontation, a top B.C. mandarin charged Thursday.

Addressing a capacity hun- cheon meeting of the North Vancouver Chamber of Commerce, Deputy Labor Minister Isobel Kelly defend- ed the government's new human rights legislation as strengthening genuine human

rights in B.C.

The weakness of the former system, based on a human rights commission, was its slowness, she said.

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The ‘system ‘became bogged’ down in ‘‘unsubstantial’” complaints, so that cases’ from 1978 and 1979 were still’ on the books unresolved.

The new Human Rights Bill 27 would be. more effec- tive, Kelly declared, because. it made grounds for discrim-. ination more specific. As a. result, the new Human Rights council would.be able to act quickly and fairly in. solving problems.