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City of N. Van flip flops on OCP fate
CityShaping draft plan could be revived before election BRENT RICHTER brichter@nsnews.com
Reports of the death of the City of North Vancouver’s CityShaping official community plan may have been greatly exaggerated. The highlevel vision for the next
20 to 30 years of the city is merely stuck in legislative limbo. A split council voted down third reading of the OCP bylaw after a public hearing on Sept. 29 following three years and untold thousands of hours of city council, staff
and community volunteer time spent drafting and refining it through public consultation. Couns. Linda Buchanan and Craig Keating and Mayor Darrell Mussatto cast three of the deciding “nay” votes, largely on the grounds that the latest draft of the document stripped away the ability for homeowners to build both a coach house and secondary suite on their
property, choking off the development of affordable housing units. Coun. Guy Heywood said he supported the land use and housing plans in the 125-page document, but couldn’t support the remaining chapters that focus on broader topics like arts, health and recreation, which he argued should be done with the District of North Vancouver. Heywood is
not running for re-election and has spent much of the last year pushing the city to reconsider amalgamation with the district. But the OCP, which the province mandates must be updated, could still be revived and passed before the Nov. 15 election if council moves quickly, according to city staff. “There are some reconsideration options
available to council in the procedure bylaw. No one has come forward to me yet regarding the reconsideration so at this point, the bylaw is sitting at second reading,” said city clerk Karla Graham. “It could come forward as it is. It could come forward with new information and then a new public hearing would need to be called.” See City’s page 3
Sword used in LoLo robbery JEREMY SHEPHERD jshepherd@nsnews.com
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Some choices are hard.
Those who live by the sword die by the sword — and those suspected of robbing a convenience store with a sword sometimes get picked up eight hours later for impaired driving. A thief brandishing a sword robbed a Lower Lonsdale convenience story Thursday night, according to police. After threatening the clerk, the swordsman made off with cash and cigarettes. Police got a description from the clerk but didn’t pick up the robber, who fled on foot. At approximately 4 a.m. Friday morning a police officer noticed a vehicle driving erratically near 13th Street and Lonsdale Avenue. See Suspect page 8
Some are easy.
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