The city has a long, looonngg agenda Monday night so council watchers would be advised to use the washroom before the meeting begins.
The city appears to be ready to lower the boom on the marijuana dispensaries that have cropped up and been operating without licences. There is a motion on the agenda directing staff to seek a court order to shut them down.
Later on the agenda is a motion to “prohibit non-medicinal cannabis production and sales in the city be considered and referred to a public hearing.”
Council must also decide on whether to send another major development proposal in Central Lonsdale to a public hearing. Millenium Northmount Properties has applied to demolish the office building at 125-145 East 13th St., currently home to medical offices, and build an 18-storey residential tower with commercial podium.
Council will also vote on the 2018 budget. Unless council members start making major additions and subtractions, city residents can expect an overall increase of 1.5 per cent in their tax bills this year.
Lastly, Coun. Rod Clark will be bringing forward a motion asking the city and District of North Vancouver to negotiate an “agreement to cost-share the operating costs for the new Harry Jerome Recreation Centre, including a 50 metre pool.”
West Vancouver has two big tasks to reckon with at their meeting, starting Monday at 6 p.m.: Its 2018 budget and the tax increases that come with and the final report from the Interim Tree Bylaw Working Group.
If council follows through on staff’s recommendation, district property owners can expect a 1.56-per cent levy increase to cover the replacement and repair of aging infrastructure and a 2.09-per cent increase to balance the district’s operating budget.
Also, the long-awaited report of the Interim Tree Bylaw Working Group is expected.
In June 2016, council passed an interim tree bylaw that forbids the removal of trees with trunks 75 centimetres or more in diameter, unless an arborist deems them to be dangerous.
Council created the working group the next month after finding the new interim bylaw was deeply divisive in the community. The group’s report is expected to include recommendations for a new permanent bylaw, though what those recommendations are won’t be available until Monday night. The public will still have an opportunity to comment on the proposals before council has its vote at a later date
The District of North Vancouver, meanwhile, has no meetings scheduled for this coming week because of … reasons.
