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NEW. ZONING category ‘in the : District: of North Vancouver . will permit. the development. of .an_ office - building ..for research. and development tenants: ;

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“Council ‘approved Monday .. a recommendation te: rezone

the lot in'the Pemberton In- ‘+ ‘dustrial area from Industrial *to.-a ‘new: category, Com- : prehensive Development ”. Zone. ;

-The application, submit-

ted: by Belcoral - Develop- “ments .Ltd., is for a lot be- tween Curchill and Roosevelt Crescents. ‘:-The applicant. will also ‘develop .the municipal park “parcel between the site and Mackay Avenue.

_ rezoning without receiving

formal. development permit plans. Municipal Planner

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“Council is processing the -

Kai Kreuchen told council the applicant was committed to accomodating one tenant before the end of Janvary, 1986.

“Time is of the essence to be successful,’? Kreuchen said. ;

But Ald. Joan Gadsby saw no need to hurry council's approval and voted against the move.

“When a council rushes into things they too soon regret it and I will not be a party to it,’’ she said.

Gadsby admitted the plan had merit but said she was concerned by the fact coun-

development project

cil had no plans to study. “Too much too quickly has been handed to us,’ she said.

Ald. Mary Segal saw the proposal! as a solution to the protection of commercial and: retail interests. ‘‘It is clean, light industry com- bined with office space,’’ she pointed out.

And Ald. Ernie Crist told council the plan was ‘‘a bad- ly needed development. 11 is clean and labor intensive.

“am not worried about the time element because the bylaw process allows suffi- cient time,” he said.

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Eastern religion neighborhood.

The homeowners are in an uproar because they say the Zoroastrian temple planned for the residential block will cause traffic problems in an already congested area.

A 22-year resident living by the site says the position of the proposed lot in rela- tion to Anderson Crescent, Taylor Way and Sentinel Hill will create a ‘hazardous traffic situation.””

“There are 140 families who belong to the church,’’ the resident said, who did not wish his name to be us- ed. ‘‘Let’s say there are four people in each family. That’s about 600 people coming and going on a residential lot.””

But church representative K. Alghabi told the News there are 139 families in all of B.C., and about 100 fam- ilies in Vancouver, with an average of three or four family members.

Alghabi, a West Van- couver resident, said only 30 per cent of those members would attend at any one time, except at six special occasions where about 50 per cent would attend.

The homeowner said with no traffic light at the in- tersection of Taylor Way and Anderson Crescent, a driver has to be adept at manoeuvering his car, because it can be dangerous.

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5 - Sunday, July 14, 1985 - North Shore News

Residents no fans of proposed temple

WEST VANCOUVER residents on Anderson Crescent find no spiritual comfort in having an

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“It’s not going to work here — not any church.””

Said Alghabi: ‘‘Our religion is very close to Christian and very far away from Islam.*’

Zoroastrian is an old Ira- nian religion before the forced conversion to the Islam religion, Alghabi said.

The resident, who has cir- culated a petition against the project, says there are about 250 residents against the project.

“There has been a real outcry,”’ he said. ‘I haven’t met anyone who isn't against it.”

According to West Van- couver municipal cierk Doug Allan, a church can move into a residential area

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without changing the zoning bylaw, if certain require- ments are met.

Allan said the church has filed for a building permit application, which must be checkec by the planning department to be sure the plans conform to the zoning bylaw.

The site for the church must be twice that of the minimum site requirement of 12,000 square feet in the area. Height restrictions are 45 feet, versus 25 feet for houses. And it must also meet sideyard, parking and landscape requirements, which the building depart- ment approves.

West Van municipal plan-

ner Steve Nichols said ac-.

cording to the plans, the ma- jority of the building is one level, except for one area of sloping roof which would be approximately 42 feet.

The proposal must then go before West Vancouver

District Council, which it is slated to do July 22.

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