Al0-Wednesday, March 12, 1980 - North Shore News

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Ellsworth Dickson

When I was a teenager, I was crazy about cars and drove a 1946 Mercury Opera Coupe with a Buick engine and a truck’ tran-

smission. It was my “dream” car and I foolishly sold it.

This issue the Inquiring Reporter asks:

‘What would your dream car be?”’

Caryn Clark North Vancouver

_ ALamborghini. It is a true

sports car, sleek and powerful. 've admired them . for a long time.

Jamie Rae : North Vancouver

A classic Camaro - from 1968. It has clean lines and is very powerful. This was before all the pollution | equipment. It would be a | good investment, too.

Karen Routh Kitsilano

A Porsche 924. I love its size, style and speed. It's a work of art on wheels.

Kargaret Grogan North Vancouver

I like old panel vans. They are beautiful, practical and you can even live in them if you want to

Ed Young North Vancouver

A Rolls Royce convertible like the one in the move “10”. It has a lifetume guarantce and is a great car

North Vancouver City faces the prospect of having to start from the beginning again in approving its community plan because of information received after a public hearing was held on the subject last week.

The City solicitor will be requested to say whether a letter included in the City aldermen's information package last week and another letter distributed to council members Monday night) makes the public hearing null and void.

If the last week's public hearing on the plan is declared void the City will once again be faced with the prospect of informing all local residents that a public hearing is to be held, and

‘holding such a_ public hearing. This may be the case

because, if council members receive new information or submissions after a public hearing has been held, any

bylaw passed would be invalid. All information is sup-

posed to be made public ata hearing and information received later by aldermen would invalidate this.

BYLAW SCRAPPED

Three months ago City council was forced to scrap a bylaw concerning group homes because information was mailed to aldermen alter the public hearng on the topic was held.

At that time the City director of permits and hceences Frank Mornms said the bylaw had to be scrapped

because of “the rule of natural justice that ail parties must have an op-

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The aldermens concerns Monday night centred on two letters.

Alderman Gordon Cross said that council members had received a letter in their information package, relating to the public hearing.

Attached to this letter, he said, was a note from the City clerk saying the letter had been forwarded to the aldermen but also noting that by law aldermen could not receive new information on the subject.

Copies of another letter were placed on aldermen's desks before Monday night's meeting began.

Mayor Jack Loucks drew council's attention to the letter before the meeting was called to order.

He said that it related to the public hearing and said he could not read it because it might prejudice the public hearing.

Mayor

Loucks then

handed his copy of the letter to the City clerk and asked other council members to do likewise.

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However,: Alderman Gordon Cross said he saw

_the letter on his desk when

he came into the council chambers and had opened it and read it.

GROSSLY WRONG

Alderman Stella Jo Dean commented that all council members had received new information on the com- munity plan after the public hearing finished because like her they had been contacted by people both personally and by phone, on the sub- ject.

“Most of us are grossly wrong if what you say is right,” Dean said, referring to the fact that aldermen are not supposed to get new

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LIKE THREE WISE MEN these ducks wander about searching for reward,

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information after a public hearing.

Mayor. Jack Loucks said he would request that the City solicitor comment on whether the information received in the letters constituted new in- formation, and as such would mean a negation of the public hearing.

The public hearing on the community plan that was held last week was already one week overdue.

A meeting planned for a week earlier had to be cancelled and new notices sent to City residents, after a local newspaper failed to advertise the meeting twice

in one week, as required by law.

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