By AVIS HOPKINS:

GOOD NEWS was mixed with bad as Mayor Jack Loucks addressed a full council chamber Monday night in the inaugural meeting of the 1982-83 North Vancouver City council.

Flanked by scarlet coated RCMP officers in a room adorned with pink and red pointsettas, Loucks told the gathering the City had made “good progress in many different areas.”

But the bad news for homeowners worried about taxes was his announcement

that a “substantial increase.

in general taxes” will be needed to pay for services. Council ’s move to reduce the burden on homeowners, he said, was the it’s adoption of Option ‘C’ taxation policy, which, if

general taxes remained unchanged would lower taxes on the

average

residential property by 17 per cent.

There are two reasons for the increase, he told the meeting.

COSTS UP

One is the increased cost of materials, labour and services.

The other is that savings created by the 1981 civic workers’ strike were passed on to the taxpayer in the 1981 budget and would not be available this year.

The good news in his address?

The value of building permits is expected to reach $35 million this year, the fifth year in a row that the City has reached or sur- passed its forecast for development, Loucks told

the gathering. “Based on past ex- perience, some of these

developments will have an impact upon the 1982 assessments and taxes, but the bulk of them will not truly affect our tax base until 1983,” he said.

And one of the most Significant events to take

place during 1981, he said,

was the acquisition of 6.2.

acres of land for use as a waterfront park.

Development on Lonsdale Quay “has also moved rapidly”, he said, with the major part of the Pacific Marine Training Institute completed, work begun on the B.C. Railway Building, and one-third of the ICBC building finished.

Loucks also ran through a list of projects completed by the Engineering Depart- ment, including over $3 million spent on im- provements to streets, the water system, ‘drainage system, sidewalks, lanes and parks.

The improvements _in- clude those done on: 13th Street, between Mahon Avenue and St. Georges Avenue; First Street, bet- ween MacKay Avenue and Fell Avenue (an important element in the Low Level Road Route); Keith Road,

‘between St. David’s Avenue

and Sutherland Avenue; and the. extension of ornamental street lighting.

One decision that will

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have to be. made soon, Loucks said, was on the marketing of City lands in the Tempe Heights area. Another decision: whether the City’s water

system in Lynn Valley should be repaired or whether the community should join the Greater Vancouver Water District. The water system

sustained heavy damage in the flooding that swept areas of the North Shore at the end of Octber.

Planning for development of the waterfront park is a decision which council “will have to make in the next few

weeks,” Loucks said.

The City will be celebrating its 75th an- niversary in 1982, he

reminded listeners, and a committee under the

chairmanship of Alderman Marcino is planning a series of events to mark the oc- casion.

“It is hoped that all citizens and organiations will take the time to participate in some or all of the events that will be taking place,” he said.

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