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! HILLSIDE STUDENTS shunned classrooms and took to the field Wednesday to protest the fact that they must continue classes a week longer than fetlow students at West Vancouver and Sentinel Secondary Schools. The protesters, approximately 150 in number, also took the action to | draw attention to the need for more environment-friendly initiatives at the school. See story p. 2.

$130m LGH plan unveiled

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LIONS GATE Hospital (LGH) administrators will seek approval Wednesday from the hospital's board of directors to appiy for rezoning changes from North Vancouver City to accommodate LGH's massive proposed $130 miliion

master plan.

If approved, the plan would sce St. Andrews Avenue blocked off between 13th and [Sih Streets and the replacement of LGH’s activa- tion building, which was opened in 1928 as the North Vancouver General Hospital and is consid- ered by some to be a heritage site.

The hospital's beard of direc- tors Will review the muster plan, which has been three years in the making, at its Wednesday meeting.

The plan includes several addi- tions and changes to the present LGH site, including demolishing

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und replacing the top floors of the hospital’s main building, adding an underground parking loi and building a new acute-care tower on the present site of the activa- tion building, which was the orig- inal LGH building.

in total, the master plan calls tor adding 400,000 square feet to the LGH site at a cost of $136 million in 1990 dollars. Hf appros- ed, the plan would take an

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ST. ANDREWS, KNOCKING DOWN ACTIVATION BUILDING

estimated 10 years to complete.

Sixty per cent of the project's funding would come from the provincial health ministry; the remaining 40 per cent would come from the Greater Vancouver Regional! District (GVRD).

LGH president Rote: Smith admitted that the project's cast will be a major issue for the three North Shore councils and the GVRD to address.

“W's a big ticket item.’ Sinith told the News. ‘it's a loc of money, and it is a key component in the infrastructure of the North Shore and Lower Mainland. By the same token. it (mister plain)

competes with sewers, police, fire and other items."*

The master plan creating a ‘campus’ area with trees, courtyards and flower gardens in the area just east of the main nursing tower, which opened in 1961. The design would require the closure of St. Andrews Avenue and the demolition of the activation and = current) North Shore Union Board of Health buildings.

Smith conceded that blocking off St. Andrews could becoine a contentious issue with both area residents and North Vancouver City council.

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“That plan shows us closing off St. Andrews and that's nice in terms of a campus feel,"’ Smith said. ‘‘It's safe to say a major decision the city would have to face is closing St. Andrews. The other decision is rezoning. We have to have the support of the city to do what we want.”

Uli Haag, =GH vice-president of human resources, said the main part of the hospital's expansion would be in the extended-care fa- cility where the number of ex- tended-care beds would be in- creased from the current 294 to

See LGH Page 3