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the fight to save Stoker farm

Dear Editor:

This is to express our concern that the Mayor and Council of the City of North Vancouver are failing to serve the public good by not allowing the Stoker farm to become park land.

We can understand the hesitation to spend over a million dollars when such an expenditure was not ex- pected or in the budget.

What we do not under- stand is the inflexibility shown by the City when offered a third alternative.

The District of North Vancouver offered to buy the Stoker property for park land at 1.7 million dollars. This would be park land to be u.wd by the citizens of the City at no cost — no en trance fees, no maintenance costs, and no extra taxes. But apparently the City was not satisfied with a free park. They also wanted the taxes, each year, that might have been generated by multi- family use. This, of course, was a bit much for the District to accept.

Let us remind you that the demands upon the City's recreational facilities are increasing. This is mainly because we now are staying closer to home for

that the city’s

throughout the years, shown the area to be deficient in

‘park space and that the

Stoker farm land has been continually indicated as land to be acquired for park use.

As such we wish to express to you our intention to make every effort to fight the re- zoning of the Stoker farm. We shall use every means available to us and to all the citizens of this City to put the Stoker farm in the public realm.

James Jarvis Stoker Farm Committee North Vancouver

Rockwoods Ass'n still fighting

Dear Editor:

As a member of the Rockwoods Assoc., I would like to correct some inac- curacies in your Sept. 7, 1980 article concerning Rockwoods.

The original thrust of our fight was two-fold; heritage designation and educational use.

We argued for education- al use because that is why General Odlum specifically gave the land to U.B.C. The heritage designation was appropriate because of Victor Odlum’s outstanding record of achcivement, both locally and nationally.

Unfortunately the uni- versity did not see fit to follow West Vancouver Council's proposed mora- torium on sale, until a suit- able educational buyer could be found. Even though Simon Fraser University showed serious interest in the site, UBC sold to Cressey. Cressey has stated he has no interest in sclling to an educational insti- tution.

We were forced by the university's action to carry op only with the heritage designation.

The Heritage Sites Act provides that compensation may be paid to property owners. The operant word is may. It docs not say must.

The developer would also be hard-pressed to prove that building houses in a

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beautiful garden site would decrease the property value. If this garden were main- tained in its present state the value of homes could only be

ation made it very clear that the plan by Steve Nichols was only a beginning point with which we agreed.

We have not had second thoughts about develop- ment.

We are still fighting “tooth and nail” to save that beautiful garden.

This can only be accom- plished through heritage designation. The control over development which can be achieved with a man-

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datory development permit is too limited.

In the case of Rockwoods it is not enough.

Rockwoods’ beauty has taken sixty years to evolve and cannot be replaced.

Consultation with Cor- neha Oberiander, a well- known and acclaimed land-

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garden could be lost forever.

Katherine Moore

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A7-Wednesday, September 17, 1980 - North Shore News

‘Old Timers’

thank NEWS

Dear Editor:

In the last Sunday edition

of the North Shore News, your staff kindly printed an account of our 50th Wedding Anniversary. May we take this oppor- tunity to thank you and your staff for giving us the time and space for this event, at this time in our lives.

It is indeed, a very fine service given to the “Old Timers” on the North Shore by your paper.

John and Evelyn Moir North Vancouver

likes church directory

Dear Editor:

I would just like to thank you for starting a church directory which I notice on Sept. 3rd. issue, page 5, as this is a necessary public service I have felt needed for a long time.

Fred Dulley North Vancouver

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