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Vote on Lynn Valley plan delayed No option favoured for town centre among divided residents JEREMY SHEPHERD jshepherd@nsnews.com
The residents of Lynn Valley have come to a consensus: they don’t agree. District of North Vancouver council delayed its vote on the controversial
Lynn Valley Town Centre plan Monday after an exhaustive report found no clear winner among development options voted on by the public who participated in the process. After sifting through a “morass of statistics” based on four open houses
attended by nearly 1,200 district residents, Coun. Mike Little said he was frustrated to learn there was no favourite. “The community’s not polarized, it’s fragmented,” noted Coun. Roger Bassam. The town centre is bordered by Mountain Highway to the east and Fromme Road to the west and includes sections of East 29th and East 27th streets.The neighbourhood
is earmarked to receive approximately 2,500 new housing units and 5,000 new residents over the next 20 years, but exactly what those housing units will look like is still unclear. One option would be characterized by five storey buildings and a reduction in anticipated growth.The five-storey limit might hurt the economic viability of key sites, resulting in a failure to improve roads and
sewers and upgrade transit, according to a staff report. A proliferation of low-rise buildings did not sit well with Coun. Doug MacKayDunn. “I’m going to keep an open mind but I have to tell you quite honestly that I’ve not been impressed with what I’ve seen at five storeys, it reminds me of Kiev in Ukraine,” he said. MacKay-Dunn wasn’t overly enthused about a
town centre for Lynn Valley to begin with. Unlike the district’s other town centres at Lower Lynn, Maplewood, and Lower Capilano, many Lynn Valley residents are not enthused about development, MacKay-Dunn said. “Lynn Valley has seen a great deal of development and traffic congestion has worsened and residents, See Number page 7
Yelp sues North Van reviewer for fakes ANNE WATSON awatson@nsnews.com
A popular customer review site is taking one North Vancouver user to court for making money on false claims. Yelp, a website where consumers can find opinions on everything from restaurants to clothing stores, is suing a North Shore man for allegedly posting fake reviews and making a profit from them. The company filed the lawsuit Sept. 19 in B.C. Supreme Court. “Yelp has a large, engaged user community and we learned about this individual’s actions from that community as well as from business owners who he had contacted and who, in turn, reported him to us,” said Aaron Schur,Yelp’s senior See Suit page 5
CLIMBING FOR A CAUSE Kellie Meakin is getting set to do her 40th climb of the Grouse Grind on Wednesday, Oct. 2, to raise money for B.C. Children’s Hospital. Use the Layar app to view video. PHOTO MIKE WAKEFIELD
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