A10 - North Shore News - Wednesday, July 3, 2013
$1.4M home worth ‘zero’: owner North Shore bike thieves busy in June Lock ’em up
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the district has done no work to add vegetation and shore up the slope in the last decade. The potential remediation order would come at a difficult time personally and financially, according to Twist. “It’s not something we can afford to deal with, so we did put the house up for sale,” he said. Dealing with the district has made it impossible to find a real estate agent who wants to handle the $1.4 million property, according to Twist. “Once they looked into it and assessed the district land around the property and how that’s analyzed in your reports, they all ran,” he said. “The agents and the builders that have talked to us have given us the opinion our property’s an un-sellable property and the value’s now at zero.” A second attempt to sell the house for $900,000 also drew no interest, according to Twist. “We can’t even fire-sale it.”
Whether the problem is caused by an abundance of fill, district work performed in Mosquito Creek in the early 1980s, or the natural process of erosion is unclear, said Mayor Richard Walton. “It does not appear to be fill, it appears to be what you see all over North Vancouver District where you have an eroding conglomerate surface with a clay fill,” he said. “My suspicion is the work the district’s done has decreased, rather than increased the risk.” The issue should be studied and decided before council takes its vacation and the rainy season begins, according to Coun. Mike Little. While there may be a variety of factors, Little said the fill is probably the biggest issue. The item is scheduled to return to council July 15. If forced to perform remediation, the owner would have approximately 30 days to submit a comprehensive plan to district staff and 60 days to begin work. A 2005 landslide near Berkley Avenue swept away two houses and resulted in one death.
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BOTH of the North Shore’s police forces are urging residents to keep a close eye and sturdy lock on their bicycles following a spate of recent thefts. Seven mountain bikes valued at more than $20,000 went missing from North Vancouver bike lockers and garages in the third week of June, according to North Vancouver RCMP. Between June 17 and 24, thieves broke into garages on the 1200-bock of Seymour Boulevard, 100-block of West 17th Street and the 2000-block of Larson Road. Among the bikes stolen were a 17-inch frame black Cove, a 17-inch Sauce Brodie and five specialized bikes of varying models and colours, all taken from one garage. Police are investigating and have added bike serial numbers to the police stolen property list. “Police are reminding all bike owners to be extra vigilant this time of year when thieves may target your valuable property,” said Cpl. Richard De Jong, North Vancouver RCMP spokesman. “Please report all suspicious occurrences, vehicles or individuals in your neighborhood, to the police.” West Vancouver police meanwhile have had 13 reports of stolen bikes since the start of the month, a huge spike over the first six months of 2012, which saw only 10 bikes disappear. Thieves in West Vancouver, however, had considerably less breaking and entering to do to get their ill-gotten gains. Several of the stolen bicycles had been stored unlocked outside residences or in carports and in one instance, a bicycle was stolen after being left inside an unlocked SUV. Leaving a bike for easy pickin’s not only puts it at risk, it also encourages more theft in the neighbourhood and provides a thief with a convenient getaway vehicle, a West Vancouver Police Department press release warns. Stolen bikes are frequently stripped for parts and sold pieceby-piece online by word of mouth, though buying or possessing stolen goods is a crime. Anyone with information about the thefts is encouraged to alert Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 (TIPS).
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