The result of three months’ labor by a 12-member task force including representation from the Lynn Valley Community Associa- tion, Lower Capilano Community Residents Association, North Lonsdale Ratepayers Association, a single-family homeowner, a te- nant of an illegal suite, an illegal suite landlord, and a real estate

COUNT 'EM...that’s 30 years Caulfeild Elementary School has been around.

- Wednesday, April 8,

1987 - North Shore News

istrict task force report in on illegal suites

THE ILLEGAL suites issue returned to North Vancouver District Council Monday with receipt of a report from the district-initiated Task Force On Illegal Suites.

MICHAEL BE News Reporter

industry representative, the report lays out six options for council to consider,

The options range from a call to wipe the slate clean with a total elimination of illegal suites, to

permitting accessory suites in all single-family dwellings.

The six options recommended to council are: continue prohibition of suites; phase-out of illegal suites; allow suites for relatives or in-laws only; regulate existing suites, prohibit new illegal suites;

allow suites in some neighborhoods: allow all suites.

The district’s current approach to the issue is investigation upon complaint to enforce regulated

NEWS photo Stuart Davis Helping keep track of the

years are, left to right, Jamie O’Brien, Stephen Hoole and Tara Klassen as classmates and teachers jump for joy with the news that Caulfeild will be celebrating its 30th anniversary May 1.

compliance within single-family

zoning.

A report from Shirley Robb, the teal estate representative on the task force, features a survey of listings and sales in North Van- couver last year from October to December which identifies 39 unauthorized accommodations in nine per cent of the 446 homes listed.

Figures based on a chamber of commerce report on illegal suites

in North Vancouver conducted in 1975 estimate an 8.7 per cent ratio, or 2,000 illegal suites from a total 23,000 single-family homes.

But task force member Bill Sievewright said the figures are probably higher throughout the district with a 25 per cent illegal suite ratio in the Lower Capilano area and 20 per cent in Upper Lonsdale.

The issue returns for council consideration next week.

Council supports singer's efforts against pollution

WEST VANCOUVER District Council will support the ef- forts of local singer-songwriter Terry Jacks to bring air pollution from the Port Mellon pulp mill into line with

provincial standards.

The decision was made at Mon- day’s council mecting following a submission from Jacks, whose petition demanding action from the provincial government on the mill currently has 3,000 signatures, 2,000 of which are from West Vancouver residents. The peti- tioners object to any further exten- sion or amendments being granted to the mill.

“The problem is that we have a pulp mill that is exceeding its per- mitted levels of toxic emissions, constantly, and for the past 10 years,”’ Jacks said.

The Port Mellon mill, Jacks said, dates back to 1905 and is outmoded. He claimed it daily spews out a ton and a half of par- ticulate pollutants over current permitted provincial levels.

But no fines or court orders have been enforced by the gov- ernment on the mill, Jacks said.

Dr. Paul Sugar testified to the harmfulness of the sulfur dioxide and hydrogen sulfide being releas- ed into the environment by the mill.

Ald. Mark Sager made the mo- tion that council should draft a let- ter expressing the district's con- cerns over the Port Mellon opera- tion,

“Howe Sound is a valuable sce- nic resource that is being whittled away ... we need to protect this area,’’ agreed Ald. Rod Day. “Thank you Mr. Jacks for the work you've been doing and keep it up.”

In voting against the motion to support Jacks, Ald. Gordon Rowntree said, ‘1 don’t feel this

By MAUREEN CURTIS

Contributing Writer

municipality should be used in a lobby from a private citizen."’

After the meeting, Jacks 1old the News he was pleased with council's decision.

“This is a really serious thing (the mill’s poitution),’’ Jacks said. “The toxins that come from the mill do not go away. They don’t break down. And we don’t want to wait until it’s too late.”’

Weather:

Wednesday, cloudy with sunny periods and a chance of showers. Thursday, periods of rain. Highs near 13°C.

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V woman awarded ,000

A NORTH Vancouver shoe repair store clerk has been awarded $2,000 in compensation for sustained sexual

harassment by her boss.

Barbara Penner, who was described as a ‘‘quiet, soft-spoken and shy'’ woman, had approached the B.C. Court of Human Rights to seek damages against Carlo Gabriele, president of Craftsman Shoe Clinic Ltd. in the Park Royal Shopping Centre.

Penner had charged that hile she worked for Gabriele ~ trom August 1983 until January 1985 — she was subjected to rude and of- fensive questions, and that the shoemaker often poked her inap- propriately.

Penner said she attempted to avoid contact with Gabriele, but said none of her protests were suc- cessful.

She said she quit finally because

By JOHN PIFER From Victoria

she felt like a ‘caged animal,’ and could not deal with Gubriele’s conduct any longer.

The shop owner admitted that he frequently touched Penner, but denied that any of his conduct constituted sexual harassment. He recalled receiving some ‘‘dirty looks"’ from Penner, and said he was once told to stop touching her, but he felt she was too ‘‘touchy’’,

The court's chairman, John {.D. Joe, who presided over a three-day hearing at which nine people testified, said he found Gabriele’s testimony to be ‘‘less than candid and fess than credible,’ and that

he was inclined to believe Penner.

He acknowledged that normal social discussions of relationships did not constitute sexual harass- ment, but rather that the focus of human rights was ‘tunfair and un- equal utilization of economic power or authority so as to block or to interfere with an employee's free and equal access to the workplace.”’

Joe dismissed arguments that Penner should have complained or quit if she was being harassed, say- ing that the Human Rights Act “ensures that an employee has the right to a workplace free of discriminatory treatment based upon his or her gender.’’

He then awarded Penner the $2,000 as some compensation ‘‘for the hurt’’ caused, and ordered that Gabriele refrain from committing the same or similar acts.