The District of West Vancouver made perhaps their smallest decision of the year Dec. 16.
Council voted unanimously to approve an eight-centimetre variance on a Mathers Avenue subdivision.
An application for two small homes - each approximately 2,551 square feet - came just a cigar-length short of the district's minimum width requirements.
Council unanimously approved the variance, but not without a little exasperation.
"I plead with you to bring forward some policy changes whereby council does not need to decide variances that are shorter than the length of a pencil," said Coun. Craig Cameron, addressing district planning director Bob Sokol.
The local government act mandates variances - even miniscule ones - be approved by council, according to Sokol.
The subdivision, located at the corner of Mathers and 14th Street, will be consistent with neighouring lots, according to a staff report. "We're mirroring everything to the south of it and I see no reason not to approve this variance," said Coun. Michael Lewis.
A similar subdivision had occupied the lot in the 1970s before being consolidated in 1976, according to staff.
