Re: Small Condo Triggers Big Debate at DNV Council.
I have been a resident of Edgemont Villa in Connaught Crescent for 4½ years. Like all the owners ( 20 units, 55+) we are very concerned about the huge amount of construction in and around the Village. Our windows have to be kept closed when we are in our apartments to keep out noise.
The complex you mention in your article, at Connaught and Crescentview, will mean yet more construction in the Village. We have seen the plans and the driveway into the complex is almost adjoining ours, which means a lot more traffic trying to get on to Edgemont Boulevard, Connaught being a one-way street. So we have a care home nearing completion, and the Grosvenor construction (to be called The Connaught) will not be finished until 2018. Then there are new condos being prepared for construction at the corner of Edgemont and Ridgeview, across from the Grosvenor project.
Mayor Richard Walton has stated that 60 to 70 per cent of construction around the Village will be completed within three months. To make such a statement, he must be including the new recreation centre, yet to be finished, on Queens, which is not “around the Village” as we are led to believe. Shops are being adversely affected by the steady stream of traffic passing through Edgemont, so our once-quaint Village is changing and not being refreshed as was intended by the study several years ago.
Janette Calder
North Vancouver
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