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Business ........... 33 Entertainment ....... 24 Fashion............ 15 Lifestyles...........25 Mailbox.............7 Sports............. 20 Sunshine Girl........27 What's Going On.....36

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Fashion: 15 Emma da Fanz proves that versatility is a key ingredient in the fasion biz.

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WEATHER:

Mainly sunny with cloudy periods, Sunday through Tuesday. Chance of rain, Sunday.

Sandwich boards illegal

- - Frem Page 1 and Traffic Bylaw, sandwich boards or placards displayed on sidewalks are illegal.

’ Phillips further specified that the bylaw says no ob- jects are allowed to be plac- ~ ed on the street or sidewalk which would obstruct or im- pede traffic.

Fred Smith, city deputy director of development and licensing, explained in his report the city has received a rash of complaints, in-. cluding ‘one from the North Shore White Cane Club, ex- pressing its concern about the signs’ hazard to blind persons.

Most recently, complaints have been received from handicapped persons, ex- pressing similar concerns .

‘The proliferation of sandwich. board signs has become so great that they now pose an obstruction to the free movement of pedes- trian traffic,’’ Smith said.

“They are heavy and very stable and would cause anyone to trip and fall should a person walk into one,’ he said. ‘If the sign were then to fall on top of the individual, even more severe injury could result.”’

Said /Smith: ‘‘The actual number of sandwich board type signs is ever increasing, and they are generally con- centrated on sidewalks dur- ing the summer months when pedestrian traffic is at ‘its heaviest.’

_ A staff member, who surveyed Lonsdale Avenue from the foot to 23rd Street

on August 20, counted 89 signs on the sidewalks.

“They (the merchants) will be requested to remove the signs or face remedial action as stipulated in the ci- ty’s bylaws,”’ Smith said.

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“NEWS photos Stuart Davis SANDWICH boards on Lonsdale, put out by merchants to advertise their store or restau- rant, have been increasing, blocking pedestrian traffic. North Vancouver city bylaws state that the signs are illegal, although merciants are allowed to display their wares close to their establishment.

Deep Cove residents seek traffic changes

WORRIES ABOUT traffic congestion. have some Deep Cove residents up in arms.

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they say are problems in the "the central Lonsdale .area.

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which’ live in a townhouse complex on Banbury Road,

The residents, members of | the Mariners’ Cove Council, are demanding changes to the Panorama Deep Cove Park design, because they say present busing routes and fay-bys, along with a

proposed parking fot, will congest the area with in- creased traffic. .

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say buses, autos and pedes- must compete for space on the narrow road that fronts the complex.

A delegation of the resi- dents addressed North Van- couver” District Council Monday and outlined what

tions. At present buses use Ban-

‘bury Road as a route and for

a lay-by. The park plan pro- poses leaving the bus route and tlay-by where they are See Cove Page 12

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