NEWS BRIEFS

Mian held for observation

A 27-YEAR-old Calpary man was taken to Lions Gate Hospital for psychiatric observation May $3 following an unusual incident in West Vancouver.

According to a West Vancouver Police spokesman, 2

police officer noted a

vehicie following a bus along

Marine Drive at about 6:20 p.m. The vehicle weuid pull in and stop behind the bus whenever the bus halted at a

bus stop.

A patrol car attempted to pull the driver over. The driver eventually stopped in the 1700 block sf Marine Drive, rolled up the windows of his car, turned up the

esr stereo, stuck his driver’s

licence against the window

and allegedly made a rude gesture to the police officer

with his finger.

i Poiice subsequently smashed a window of the car and 1 arrested the suspect for obstructing a police officer.

But once placed in the police car, the man kicked out

a window of the cruiser.

The police called an ambulance for backup and the man was taken to Lions Gate Hospital.

Jail term for car theft

A 34-YEAR-GLD man was sentenced recently in North Vancouver provincial court to a total of six weeks in jail on charges of auto theft and assault.

David Allan Friesan,

of no fixed address,

was

sentenced May 3 to a two-week jail term after he pleaded guilty to stealing a Chevrolet Nova on June 14, 19990.

He was sentenced to an additional four weeks in jail after ne was found guilty of assaulting a man on Aug. 7,

1990.

dudge D.E. Moss ordered Friesan to serve the two sentences consecutively <o other sentences he is currently

serving in prison.

Tremendous

Be,

NEWS photo Stuart Davia WEST VANCOUVER constable Bernie Balt fingerprints six-

year-old Christine Jenney as part of ‘Operation Family tden- tification” heid during National Police Week.

response to

children’s iD program

MORE THAN _ 1,200 children were photographed and _finger- printed by the 70 volunteers who took part in Operation Family Identification May 16 to May 18 at Park Royal South.

Sponsored by London Drugs during National Police Week, the program combined pictures and prints of the children with their vital statistics te make a personal identification kit for parents to take home.

Volunteers included members of the Kiwanis Club, students from

West Vancouver, Sentinel and Balmoral secondary schools, Block Parents, police reserves, members of the West Vancouver Seniors Activity Centre, off-duty police and fire department per- sonnel as well as members of the general public.

Said ‘West Vancouver Police Chief Const. Hal Jenkins, ‘This type of program is very wor- thwhile and the volunicers involv- ed reflect the strong West Van- couver community spirit. Thank you for a jub well done.”

Coordinators would be reassigned to teaching

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school program is one of several programs the board is considering cutting.

She added that if the conumuni- ty School program is cut, the school ceordinators, who are mostly qualified teachers, would be reassigned to teaching duties.

“Anyone involved in a par-

ticular program thinks that is the Most important program. As far as community schools are con- cerned, most of the people on the board have supported community schoois,’’ Jessup said. ‘‘There is nothing wrong with that program. If we do have to cul the program, maybe parents and volunteers could take over the job being done by the coordinators.

WV height restrictions proposed

WESY VANCOUVE DISTRICT COUNCIL

WEST VANCOUVER’S planning director Steve Nicholls is again tackling the chailenging task of regulating building heights in West Vancouver.

By Maureen Curtis Contributing Writer

His recent report, which con- tains recommendations for solving some of the complexities of can- trolling building heights in a municipality with a mountainside topography, was referred May 13 to the advisory design panel by West Vancouver District Council.

Nicholls warned that his new proposals for stricter regulations would increase the number of de- velopment variance applications that end up before council.

But it is the inevitable conse- quence of increased regulation and the desire to exert more control in slope situations,’ Nicholls stated in his report.

The proposed regulations, he said, would tend to reduce the apparent bulk of houses and buildings, even on flat lots.

Nicholls also warned that height regulations will have an impact on design flexibility, while not neces- sarily addressing the problem of view blockage adequately.

He pointed cur that no regula- tion can ensure ‘‘quality or sen- sitive design.”

Nicholls recommended that the proposed regulations be reviewed in about six months after they have been introduced.

The new regulations would limit building heights to the current 25-foot height.

Nicholls proposed introducing an additional ‘‘envelope’”’ (the three dimensional parameters in which a building must fit) for the highest exposed building face that is 22 feet above the adjacent ground level and sloping inward from that point at 45 degrees.

There would be a_ further resttiction on landscape structures such as retaining walls.

Planning staff also suggested restricting the area that a build- ing’s second storey can cover its first storey and incorporating stricter requirements for second- storey setbacks.

New regulations could also in- clude changes in definitions dif- ferentiating walls from fences.

The revision of building height regulations results, in part, from public outcry over the construc- tion of modern, bulky ‘‘monster’* homes, and the difficulty in ap- plying height regulations to moun- tainside lots that have several grades.

Perception plays a role in the issue, in that a badly designed house may be considered overheight even if it is actually lower than an attractive neighbor-

ing house. “Perceptions of what is. ex- cessive vary with taste, social

values, house design, position on the lot, topography, landscaping and the impact on existing neighbors,"’ Nicholls stated in his report.

But tinder the curren: regula- tions, downhill building faces can significantly exceed 25 feet in height, and in the case of a square “box” design, present an over- whelming presence.

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