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3 - Wednesday, November 26, 1986 - North Shore News

APPROVAL DEPENDS ON PROJECT CHANGES

City council gives P&T

THE CONTROVERSIAL $ shopping centre development planned for the Park and Tilford property got the green light Monday as city council decided to send the project to the advisory planning commission and the advisory design

panel.

But the move is subject to developer BCE Development Cor- poration revamping its present 20-acre proposal to include five acres of industrial development.

The present shopping centre plan — which contains an 81,000- square-foot Save-On-Foods store and a multi-screen cinema complex — contains no industrial develop- ment.

“f think it's a real positive step,”’ said a happy Wayne Kno- wiles, BCED general manager of shopping centre development. “Ives the first indication in two years that they're willing to con- sider rezoning the property.”

Knowles said in an_ interview BCED would have to analyse the plan to see if the five acres of in- dustrial property would be economically feasible. At an earlier meeting, Knowles had said the

By STEPI

BARRINGTON Nries Reporter

20-acre project could not be reduced further,

“We have not run the numbers yet.” Knowles said. We're going to go back to the drawing-board and see .if we can make the development smitler.”*

In a letter to council, Knowles indicated it would be possible to reduce the size of the shopping centre and introduce an industriat user onto the site.

He would not name the potential industrial user.

Ald. Elko Kroon, the deciding vote in the Park and Tilford deci- sion, was the one who set the con- dition that five acres of the pro- posed 20-acre development be in- dustrial, leaving 15 acres for the

N. Shore employees return to cable compan

UNIONIZED employees at Shaw Cable’s North Shore of- fice returned to work Monday for the first time since July 14 after they reached a tentative agreement with the com- pany on a new four-year contract.

“I think everybody is happy to get back to work,’’ Jarno Koskinen said Monday, ‘‘especial- ly before Christmas.”’ .

Shaw’s manager for North and West ' Vancouver said .the agree- ment will allow the company to maintain one wage level for four years, and it provides a change of classification for installers that will allow the company to start in- stallers with no experience at 50 per cent of the full journeyman rate of about $46,000 annually.

The new top rate for unionized installers will be 85 per cent of the full journeyman rate, or $39,443.

Currently 11 of the 13 Interna-

“tional Brotherhood of Electrical

Workers (IBEW) members employed at North Shore’s Shaw Cable are journeymen, while the remaining two earn 93 per cent of the full rate, or $43,156.

Koskinen said the two earning 93 per cent will be put on appren- ticeship programs by the company and allowed to upgrade themselves to journeymen.

If they are successful, he said, they will be paid the full rate. If they aren’t they will be paid the new 85 per cent rate.

By TIMOTHY RENSHAW News Reporter

Announced Friday, the agree- ment, which runs from Jan. 1, 1986 to Dec. 31, 1989, provides for no wage increase in the first three years and an increase in the fourth year equal to 50 per cent of the consumer price index.

The North Shore workers, who voted 70 per cent to accept the contract, will also be paid $2,500 up front in lieu of 3.3 per cent in sick pay benefits that will be rolled back for 1986 and 1987. Those benefits will resume in 1988.

IBEW spokesman Mike Flynn said Tuesday the union’s member- ship was happy with the contract and glad to be back at work.

The IBEW walked off the job at Shaw’s North Vancouver office Jan. 10 in support of Kootenay’s IBEW local 1003, who were in- volved in a labor dispute with Shaw at the time and had set up a picket line around the North Van- couver office. They returned to work May 9 following the May 5 ratification of a contract between the Kootenay local and Shaw.

On July 14, Shaw’s 13 IBEW

LW SETTLES

employees donned lock-out signs after Lower Mainland cable com- panies imposed a new contract on its 230 IBEW members that was considered unacceptable by the union.

Over the ensuing four months a number of interruptions to North Shore cable television service resulted from what Shaw management said were deliberately slashed cables and other acts of vandalism.

But no one was ever formally charged as a result of the incidents.

“It’s unfortunate that they took place,” Koskinen said. ‘‘Feelings remain, yes, but we’re just happy to get back to normal.’’

Flynn said no disciplinary action will be taken against any IBEW members in North Vancouver. “Return to work was orderly and responsible. Things happened on both sides (during the dispute), but we have buried the hatchet and so has the company. We just want to get on with the job.”’

In all, about 60 of the 230 union workers involved in the labor dispute with the Lower Mainland’s four cable companies returned Monday.

In addition to North and West Vancouver, IBEW technicians in White Rock, Surrey, New Westminster, Cloverdale and Langley were back to work after tentative agreement was reached in their contracts.

MALL JUDGMENT INCOMPLETE, GROUP SAYS

Caulfeild protesters keep up mall battle

THE B.C. Supreme Court case dealing with the Caulfeild Shopping Centre proposal is still open, according to a group of 18 petitioners opposing the district’s zoning bylaw in that

area.

Group spokesman Russel Precious said the recent ruling the judge made regarding Caulfeild zoning was incomplete.

On Nov. 12 Justice Reginald Gibbs rejected the group’s argu-

ments 10 quash a decision by West Vancouver District Council, whereby a minor bylaw amend- ment was used to increase com- mercial Caulfeild land from 3.5 acres to 5.3 acres.

Precious said the judge misunderstood the group’s lawyer and did not rule on one of the lawyer's main arguments.

That argument would have had the judge decide whether the commercial area was already 5.3 acres,

“We're waiting to hear back from the judge to see whether he'll rule on this outstanding issue,” said Precious.

230,000-square-foat shopping cen- tre.

“The only consolation | have is their letter, which says they have something in the works.’ Kroon said in’ reference to an earlier meeting where BCED failed to present a revamped half industrial and half commercial proposal,

“Um not interested in mights or maybes, Tm interested in’ a development that consists of this and ¢hat,’’ Kroon said of the five acres of industrial use,

But Ald. Stella Jo Dean said the compromise solution might not work. Of Kroon's suggested 15- acre shopping centre, four acres would be die Park and ‘Tilfard Gardens, leaving 11 acres of reve- nue-earning tenants,

“We may be giving ourselves a death) penalty,"’ said Dean, “1 can’t see that 1) acres of commer- cial (development) can support four acres of gardens.”

Ald. Dana Taylor, who has previously stated the plan means a serious loss of industrial land in the city, said there were no changes in the proposal.

He said once that ruling has been made the group will decide whether or not to appeal the case.

British Pacific Properties, owners of the land, also filed a petition with the B.C. Supreme Court to determine the answer. They're arguing district council did not need to amend the zoning bylaw, because the land was already zoned for 5.3 acres,

Peter Finch, president and

CAPILANO MALL shoppers were treated to a high flying act Thursday when the Hystar airship manoeuvred its way around the mal. The Hystar was last seen in the Canada Pavilion st Expo.

Under the latest. BCED pro- posal, 20 acres of the 30-acre site would be rezoned and developed as the shopping centre; the other 10 acres would remain under its pres- ent industrial use to be developed separately by other parties.

“We will be under tremendous pressure to rezone (the 10 acres), Taylor said. ‘Thus further eroding the industrial land base in this ci- ty.”

And Ald, John Braithwaite said BCED did not provide enough in- formation on the project. Pointing to an Oct. 22 meeting with the develaper, he said: “All of the people before us were tight-lipped and didn’: want to make a move.

“They're indicating even now they don't want to let us know,” he said.

Braithwaite also charged council was listening to the developer. “Here we have a stack of informa- tion saying don't do it,’’ he said of staff reports.

A further report on the development is expected by Dec. 15,

NEWS photo Terry Peters

managing director of British Pacific Properties, said a court date has still not been set for the British Properties’ petition against West Vancouver District.

However, Finch said, he will be discussing with his solicitors whether to proceed with the peti- tion because of the recent ruling. This ruling in effect allows a $10 million shopping centre proposal lo proceed.