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pac On what is supposed i be a residential rect. So says a.small group of wer Capilano residents who e tired of trying to get orth Vancouver District’s gineering department to lis- Ba to them. . “I don’t mind saying that er-ail this time I feel we ve been deceived by the dis; ct’s engineers,” said Garden nuc - resident. Dalia mortlieb-Tanaka. j “*J want other residents’ of

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Itation and staff/resident bmmittees is not . always mocracy in action. = / “If ever we won anything the political level, later on gic always lost to an engincer- Bp department that was very Mehictant to do anything it

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hicles .using .a .two-block Sngth of Garden /Avenue to ortcut the intersection of : farine ‘Drive and Capilano poad.. |: oo Tanaka says she was infuri- ed..when she, read the draft the 1996 Lower Capilano focal ‘Area Plan that will go to Mublic hearing Sept. 10.

‘The; plan, wher -adopted, I‘ become part of the dis-

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lan (OCP) and create a 10- par strategy for land use.

“Yn the middle of a series of posed local safety improve- nts is the'statement:-

“A vehicle classification dy. of Garden’ Avenue ‘will le“ undertaken upon plan Hoption; to determine if strictions to truck traffic are arranted.? Dn, ‘Tanaka. says such a state- ent might seem hopeful if sidents were not already are that ‘the district bas en studying the problem for ma2-years in order to come up ith ‘a, weaker statement than at Contained in the original 984 Marine: Drive Corridor DCP, = : The 1984 area OCP classi- ed Garden Avenue as a sec- ndary road but promised to: y reduce, the impacts of rough traffic in residential eizhborhoods and on sec- ndary roads, especially 15th et, Hope Read and narden Avenue; . discourage commercial traf-

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GARDEN Avenue residents have watched trucks roar though their neighborhood

for 12 years. Left to right, Dalia Gottlieb-Tanaka,

fic in residential areas in terms of customer and service traffic serving adjacent. commercial users and truck traffic using residential streets.

Even the secondary road classification was a bone of contention with many resi- dents who preferred the pot- holed, two-lane Garden Avenue of 1979 with no side- walks and its entrance screened from Capilano Road by natural vegetation.

District. engineer John Bremner was quoted in the media at the time telling council that if the road was not 38 feet wide “the munici- pality would likely regret it in the future.”

According to ‘Tanaka, Garden is now classified as a collector road and “when the improvements went in magi- cally became. 40 feet wide without any consultation with the residents.”

" Angry residents took to the Garden Avenue intersec- tions in July 1986 blocking

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Mayor Marilyn — Baker scolded the residents for their premature actions as council had not yet received a consul- tant’s study of the area.

“The OCP still wants to study the area 10 years later. Do you know how many stud- ies they have already paid for?” asks Tanaka.

Council agreed after the 1986 protest to eliminate left turns from Capilano Road on to Garden during rush hours.

But Tanaka says the sign forbidding the turn was “tiny” and placed where |‘ drivers could not see it until already committed to the turn,

The sign was. removed within a week after angry motorists protested they were being ticketed by the police without fair warning.

“When engineering does nor want something to hap- pen they make sure it is going to fail,” said Tanaka.

The News contacted Gavin Joyce in the district's engineering department earli-

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Joyce told the News that the Capilano Plan was just a draft and promised his depart- ment would be taking action on truck traffic before the plan went to public hearing.

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