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Body found in North Van Kirkstone lot yields grisly find to passerby
James Weldon jweldon@nsnews.com
THE body found in a quiet North Vancouver neighbourhood this week belonged to an unidentified Caucasian woman in her 40s, according to homicide investigators working on the case.
A resident walking past an empty lot in the 2300-block of Kirkstone Road made the grisly discovery at about 1 p.m. Wednesday. The corpse was wrapped in plastic, according to other media. The resident called North Vancouver RCMP, who cordoned off the road and, on determining that foul play had likely been involved, called in the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team. Forensic and canine units probed the area for clues throughout Wednesday afternoon and into the night, while other officers canvassed neighbours. An autopsy performed Thursday revealed the woman’s gender, which could not initially be determined from the remains. Investigators say she was about five feet two inches tall, 100 pounds with brown hair. Police are reviewing missing persons reports in an effort to determine her identity. Contrary to some media reports, the body had not been dismembered and was not badly decomposed, according to police. It’s not clear how long it had been there, they said.
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NORTH Vancouver RCMP and homicide investigators search a vacant lot on Kirkstone Road in North Vancouver for evidence Wednesday evening after the discovery of a body earlier in the afternoon.
DNV population to grow 20,000 in 20 years Benjamin Alldritt
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STEERING growth into two town centres and a half-dozen village centres would help put the District of North Vancouver on solid financial ground, planners told councillors during a workshop meeting last week. The district’s draft OCP works on the assumption that over the coming two decades the district will become home to an additional 20,000 people, a growth rate of about one per cent. The “network of centres” concept plans on concentrating growth in Lynn Valley
and Lower Lynn, and to a lesser extent in six village centres: Lower Capilano-Marine, Edgemont, Queensdale, Maplewood, Parkgate and Deep Cove. The town centres would see a rise in density through the addition of mixed residential and commercial developments with floor areas up to 3.5 times the lot size. The villages would see a ring of duplexes and townhouses around their retail core. In all, the plan calls for 80 to 90 per cent of all new dwellings to be built within the centres. The plan also notes that the district has shed 1,000 jobs over the past 15 years, while the Metro Vancouver region as a whole has added 150,000 jobs over the same period. See No page 3
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