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North Shore News

Badger Road extension gets NVD Council support

NORTH VANCOUVER District Council has flip flopped once more on the issue of whether to allow an extension of Badger Road.

By PAMELA LANG Contributing Writer

After giving conditional ap- proval to the extension last Oc- tober, council had a bylaw drawn up in December changing the zon- ing of all municipal lands north of Badger Road to parks (PRO) from residential (RS1).

The move was made because, according to Deep Cove’s Official Community Plan (OCP), the land should be parkland. The zoning change would preclude the road being built.

But during their Feb. 12 meeting, council received a report from the bylaw’s Jan. 23 public

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hearing, where public opinion was mixed.

Council then ordered staff to write a second bylaw changing the land to PRO, but leaving a road aNowance for the extension of Badger Road.

Mayor Marilyn Baker and Aldermen Bill Rodgers and Joan Gadsby remained opposed to the road allowance, but it passed with Ald. Ernie Crist’s support.

Crist had previously been against the road’s construction.

“In principle, we should not rezone parkland so someone can make a profit,’"* he said, ‘showev- er, since the district supports de- velopment in the area the request to extend the road is not unrea- sonable."”

He added that the road would be useful for access to the parkland east of the proposed extension.

The request to extend Badger Road was originally brought to council by a group of eight home- owners who want access to the rear part of their Caledonia Avenue- fronted lots.

The group wants to subdivide their properties, with the new homes fronting the extended Badger Road.

The proponents are willing to pay for the road construction.

Rodgers called the road allow- ance a “million dollar gift,’” say- ing the lots created by the subdivi-

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He spoke against the extension, pointing out again that it does not conform to the OCP.

Counci! did not vote on ihe bylaw that would change all municipal land north of the ex- isting Badger Road to PRO. They deferred that decision untir they hear from the solicitor on the le- gality of having two similar bylaws awaiting decision simultaneously.

As Baker explained, if they defeat the old bylaw (PRO only), then send the new bylaw (PRO and road allowance) to public hearing and subsequently defeat it as weil, they will have nothing to show for the two public hearings.

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