North Shore News July 16 2014

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WEDNESDAY July

16 2014

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City inches forward on Shipyards plan Council divided over $30-million waterfront vision BRENT RICHTER brichter@nsnews.com

The City of North Vancouver is taking some wobbly first steps toward developing the grandiose vision for the central waterfront that both dazzled and dismayed when it debuted in February. The plan for a skating rink, water features, amphitheatre and ferris wheel made its return to council Monday night, with it, 41 recommendations that range from the big-ticket attractions to the more prosaic beautification projects and business marketing. Council hired consultant Roger Brooks to develop the plan in consultation with local businesses and community members last year. Brooks’

estimated cost: $30 million. Though staff originally recommended nixing the shoreline water fountains and the privately funded ferris wheel, council tweaked its plans to leave the two attractions on the table, at the request of Coun. Don Bell who said he’d warmed to the idea after checking out Seattle’s ferris wheel. Coun. Craig Keating urged council to go one step further and endorse all 41 recommendations and have staff come back with a report on how the city can pay for the plan with internal borrowing and an eye to repaying the loans with revenue generated from the city-owned commercial space in the Shipyards. In his final plea to council, Brooks urged the city to adopt the plan wholesale lest it be picked apart to nothing in an attempt to make it please everyone. “I don’t get too many people See City page 3

Third and fourth rescue caches raided BRENT RICHTER brichter@nsnews.com

For the fourth time since mid-June, a North Shore Rescue cache of emergency life saving gear has been ransacked and vandalized The team learned Tuesday afternoon that the Norvan Falls cache had been broken into — the second time.

“We hadn’t even restocked it yet. It’s abuse. This is just crazy. It’s absolutely crazy. We’ve obviously got a disturbed individual here,” said an exasperated Mike Danks, North Shore Rescue team leader. Danks renewed the team’s plea for information that could lead to an arrest. See Costs page 5

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