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January 31, 1982

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THE REBIRTH OF LOWER LONSDALE

NORTH VANCOUVER City’s

shabby and

rundown Lower Lonsdale area appears destined to be transformed into the showpiece of the

municipality.

This is the dream of City Alderman Gary Payne, who predicts the location would become a high class area with soaring property values, in a project being considered jointly by City council and the provincial government.

The proposal would likely incorporate a_ delicate combination of revitalization

and redevelopment — enhancing historic features of the main street, while developing the areas on each side.

Payne calls the provincial government's revitalization program which would be administered by the municipality “probably the most exciting change which

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will take place on the North Shore in the _ forseeable future.”

The first step towards his dream was taken at a meeting Tuesday, when

By CHRIS LLOYD

merchants showed interest in sprucing up businesses on the stretch of Lonsdale below Fourth Street.

Payne, who is chairman of the City’s Downtown Revitalization Committee,

estimates that of the 70 people present about 50 were eligible to participate and that 30 were in favor.

He has asked those merchants to survey stores in the area and get an accurate commitment of how many are in favor, before City spends $10,000 on hiring a consultant.

The government program, which is designed to put new life into older central cores of communities, funds 20 per cent of the expense of upgrading ground level

ABBINESS PIECE

ALD. GARY PAYNE

facades, up to a maximum of $60 per foot grant. It will also loan up to $375,000 at a_ favorable CONTINUED ON PAGE A10

GOVERNMENT VISITORS members of the Cabinet Commitice on Economic Development, who

toured the Stanley Drug company and Allied Shipyards. Pictured at the drug manufacturers are . Forests

to North Vancouver

Minister

Tuesday were

Tom Watcriand in

Heinrich,

the Bryant.

foreground and behind him left to right are Stanley Drags President Les

Strike, Agriculture and Food Minister James Hewitt, Labor Minister Jack Energy and Mines Chairman Bob McClelland, Tourism Minister Pat Jordan and Stanley Drugs Manufacturing Manager Cart

(Elsworth Dickson photo)

here’s still time to save Stoker Farm: p. A3

THE VOICE OF NORTH AND WEST VANCOUVE

Blanket pieas by councils

Tax victims get day in court Monday

By NEWS STAFF

HARD-PRESSED tax- payers in West Vancouver and North Vancouver District get their day in court tomorrow (Monday, February 1) — regardless of whether or not they filed in- dividual appeals against skyrocketing 1982 property assessments.

Blanket appeals lodged only two weeks ago by the two municipalities on behalf of all property owners on their rolls have galvanized the B.C. Assessment Authority into fast action:

Courts of revision will sit Monday in West and North Vancouver to consider the municipal claims for across- the-board assessment reduction

In West Van the court will be held in the municipal council chamber, 750-17th

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SUNDAY

cloudy colder

MONDAY

scattered showers