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What’s up at council this week? (Sept. 30)

With tracks, taxes and a new plan for the Delbrook lands on the agenda, the District of North Vancouver is the best show on the Shore Monday night.
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With tracks, taxes and a new plan for the Delbrook lands on the agenda, the District of North Vancouver is the best show on the Shore Monday night.

District of North Vancouver

After consultation, consternation and rejection, Monday night brings reconsideration for Delbrook.

Council is set to mull a $2.2-million neighbourhood park and a four-storey building that would offer rentals for low-to-moderate income earners as well as a seniors care facility on the parking lot site at 600 West Queens Rd. A partner such as B.C. Housing will also likely be needed for construction and operational costs, according to a district staff report.

If council pushes the project forward, the district will begin negotiations with a non-profit housing provider and seniors’ care provider, the report noted. Both the rents and the mix of bedrooms would be established through a lease agreement. The new project would be one storey shorter than the below market/seniors’ respite centre council scuttled last fall.

But Delbrook isn’t the only issue running in circles as council is slated to debate allocating $3.8 million for a new track, fencing, drainage, irrigation, landscaping and washroom at Handsworth Secondary. Currently, the North Vancouver School District has a mandate to pay for the $300,000 grass field but not to replace the 1990s-era track.

Footing the bill for the new four-lane track could mean other projects being cancelled or deferred, according to a staff report.

Lastly, the district is set to consider offering a total of $453,122 in permissive tax exemptions to the Wild Bird Trust, the North Shore Disability Resource Centre, the Aga Khan Foundation of Canada, the Capilano Tennis Club, the North Vancouver Museum and Archives and dozens of other municipal agencies.

WV, CNV and MLB are off this Monday, so why not grab a ball, a glove and a friend, and think about that autumn day 47 years ago when the great Roberto Clemente notched his 3,000th career hit?