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West Van to crack down on

WEST VANCOUVER District Council has moved to toughen the district’s regulations prohibiting peo- ple from parking in spaces designated for disabled per- sons.

By Maureen Curtis Contributing Writer

If the bylaw is passed, anyone who is nat disabled or is not transporting a disabled person (while prominently displaying a Disabled Persons parking card) will be prohibited from parking or Stopping in zones designated for the disabled.

Signs indicating parking for the disabled generally have a wheelchair symbol! clearly marked.

Council is also planning to create five additional parking spots for the disabled in the Ambleside Business District.

Debate recently arose over the placement of the parking spois for the disabled around West Van- couver municipal hall.

The designated spots were mov-

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ed from the west side of the hall on 17th Street to the north side on Fulton Avenue last year.

Community Services Advisory Commission member Patty Clark said that it would be easier and safer to get into a wheelchair on Fulton, than on 17th, which is on a heavily travelled hill,

Clark, who has to get her wheelchair out of her trunk, had difficulty in attending commission meetings because she had to park on 17th.

The designated parking spots were moved after a sub-committee of the commission met with municipal officials.

Even though there have been complaints from another wheelchair user, David Blair, the parking spots will stay on Fulton for the time being.

The commission considered but did not agree with Blair’s com- plaint that the new parking spots on Fulton were farther away and poorly lit.

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But the let-down to the sidewalk at Fulton and 17th will be im- proved.

“Pr looking forward to the day when we can have access to the building for the disabled from the lower parking lot,’ said Ald. Diana Hutchinson.

But the installation of a lift from the parking lot would be ex- pensive, while there are concerns about security if the basement door were to be left unlocked after hours to provide access to those in wheelchairs attending council and other meetings.

Ald. Andre Danyliu issued a plea to the public to stop parking or even stopping in the spots desig- nated for the disabled in West Vancouver.

“The disabled and those who drive them are often older and frail and it’s not fair that they should drive around and around the block waiting for you to get out of their spots. Leave those few spots for those that really need them,”’ said Danyliu.

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