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ATTEMPTS BY major Joval retail- ers to extend mall opening hours creates hardship for stnall business. es according to a North Vancouver District councillor,

NORTH VANCOUVER DISTRICT COUNCIL By Martin Millerchip

Capilano Mall's property man- agement company, Cambridge Leascholds’ Ltd, announced in December -that the imal! would extend opening hours to 9 pam. Monday to Friday,

The move favors anchor tenants Wal-Mart, Sears and Pacific Linen,

Independent owners — facing increased salary costs and limited revenue from the extended hours have. pleaded financial hardship to North Vancouver City Council.

Coun. Ernie Crist argues that any new changes should be North Shore wide “so as to avoid the undue com- plications by virtue of the fact that small businesses on the North Shore -are operating out of three different municipalities.”

- Recently North © Vancouver : District Council agreed to ask for a - staff report on existing rules and i regulations pertaining to shopping

:-hours in all. three North. Shore .

“municipalities.

“[ like the idea of developing

some sort of joint approach so that there is no sense of one municipuli- ty taking advantage of another,” said _ Coun. Janice Harris.

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Lat an amendment proposed by Coun. Don Bell deleted a portion of Crist’s proposed motion,

Crist bad also asked staff to report “whether chinges need to be made (o prowet the smd business cammanity from potential hard- ship? as ao result of darge. stores extending shopping fours.

Bat Bell argued that the “second part is beyond a reasonable question OF staff and) suggested that the points Crist raised “can he addressed when we get that ryport”

Crist later told the News: that Bell's deletion “emasculated” his mation.

“ttound Coun, Bell's comments typical, He always ties to water it down, defer it. study it

“When he was the mayor he was

the great procrastinator, i was hop-

ing that since then he would have learned fram Saleway,” said Crist.

But Bell said his amendment

vas intended to avoid stall wasting time on. “unnecessary — political reports.”

“t'm_) disappointed that Coun. Crist continues to attack the person- alities of other council members rather than deal with the issues ina business-like manner,” said Bell.

The major mall in the district's jurisdiction is the Lynn Valley Centre, where, according to Crist. smaller stores dance to the tune of

Zellers.

Zellers’ general manager Rick Corbett said his store has been open to 9- p.m. Monday to Friday for a number of years “without requiring the other merchants to open.”

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