FALCONS SOCCER RECAP cuuneuauaauaeuneuaugeuneneenauneunenennstd The men’s and women’s soccer teams both earned victories at Kwantlen over the weekend VOPR A ARPOL as yess i MEM tin STOP a > [MARPOLE] REZONING 2 a | mymarpole.com is STOP) MARPOLE REZONING REZONI mymarpok TYLER HOOPER photo Protesters voice their opinions of the Marpole re-zoning plan at city hall before the city announced it had delayed the process. City delays rezoning plans Protesters pleased after city council decides to extend consultation By TYLER HOOPER the issue. work here [city hall] to improve that “We're hoping to get the message process,” said Moir. 66 lhe City of Vancouver has delayed out that we want more consultation for City councillor Adriane Carr ad- ; rezoning measures for certain our community plans, right now we’re —_ressed a crowd in front of city hall Were hop- areas of the city after communi- not getting that,” said Mike Burdick, echoing protesters’ concerns. “We had ing to get ty protests at city hall. spokesperson for the Marpole Resi- planning process in this city,” she said. City council’s plan for condo devel- _—_ dents Coalition. “Where is that process now? the mes- opment has created conflict between “We want them to answer our ques- Throughout the week residents ad- sage out the city and residents who are con- tions in an honest and forthright man- dressed city council in a series of meet- cerned about changes to the character ner and then make good on their prom- ings. Coun. Andrea Reimer said people that we of their neighbourhoods. ises.” were generally “respectful” but there want more On Tuesday, Sept. 24, several hun- Amid the sounds of evening rush was “misinformation” being spread dred Vancouver residents gathered hour Tuesday, the protesters chanted amongst residents, particularly per- consulta- outside city hall protesting the city’s “More time, better planning!” and“Our _ taining to the legal process of re-zon- tion for rezoning plans which will impact the community, our plan!” As cars passed, ing. regions of Grandview-Woodland, drivers honked to show support for the City council delayed the rezoning our com- Mount Pleasant, Norquay Village, the protesters. plans for Grandview-Woodland, the munity West End, the Downtown Eastside and Tracey Moir, a member of the Downtown Eastside and Marpole. The l Marpole. Residents are concerned with Oakridge Langara Area Residents As- Marpole consultation process has been Pp ans BURDICK the lack of transparency over the issue and want city representatives to be more open about their intentions on sociation, stated that the entire pro- cess of the plan is broken. “It’s not in the best interest of the people that extended by six months, while housing west of Cambie Street will remain pre- dominately single-family homes. Construction puts wildlife in danger A bird’s nest under an air- conditioning unit on the A building was buried By NADIM ROBERTS building at Langara lost their Te: baby pigeons roosting on the A home last week when construction the birds as roofers worked overhead. The next day the nest and the birds had disappeared and a pile of dirt and stones lay in their place. “T saw these two birds sitting in a nest and thought that’s kind of neat and took a couple pictures,” said Henc- zel, who photographed the birds on his cellphone. “A day later I come back and there is a half-ton of dirt over where tor at the Beaty Biodiversity Museum at UBC, “this is not a surprise.” “It’s a sheltered and warm place. Birds do this all the time,” said Szabo. Crystal Brennan and her colleagues at the Wildlife Rescue Association of B.C. identified the birds as two baby pi- geons. She felt that the birds needed one or two more weeks before being ready to survive on their own. It could ED HENCZEL photo worker's on the roof buried their nestin —_ the nest was.” be a dire situation if these birds have _ Two baby a pile of rubble. The nest was built under an air-con- been prematurely forced into the wild. pigeons were On Sept. 20, Langara journalism in- ditioning unit on the roof and accord- forced from structor Ed Henczel took a picture of ing to Ildiko Szabo, an assistant cura- Fowl play ruffles feathers, page 3 their home. i) Group of Six files lawsuit Community centres going to court with park board over OneCard program By JENNY PENG centres are among those suing the Vancouver Park Board over the implementation of the OneCard pro- gram. Sunset, Kerrisdale and Killarney community centres, along with Hast- ings, Kensington and Riley Park Hill- crest want to retain the right to issue their own membership cards. Under the OneCard program, which was launched in July, revenues from all city community centres will be pooled and dispersed by the park board. The lawsuit, filed last month, result- ed from crumbling communication be- tween the two sides, said Sunset Com- munity Centre Association president Ken Thompson. According to Thompson, dialogue with the park board has been shaky since 2001 when both sides began map- ping a new joint operating agreement. “Over the last 12 to 13 years nothing re- ally concrete has happened,” said Thompson. “We’d start discussions and they would stall. A new park board would get elected and we'd start again.” The recent revolving door of park board commissioners has delayed progress on the new agreement said Hazel Hollingdale, president of Ren- frew Park Community Association. “A lot of the old park board commission- ers came up through the system and really understood the associations,” said Hollingdale. “We had a lot of park board commissioners come in who don’t have that same understanding.” The six associations argue that pool- ing revenues from OneCard contra- dicts the current system. The OneCard program gives card- holders universal access to facilities Loca community — cen- tres. Instead of nen ers buying member- fl ogue Te South Vancouver community in participating ships from centres, the new system will funnel membership revenues directly into the park board’s control, as a way to close po- gy tential funding in- equities among all centres. Without knowing all the terms under the new agreement and how funding will be dis- tributed, OneCard is a risk the six as- sociations say they won’t take. HB Sunset Community Centre HM kerrisdale Com- munity Centre Killarney Commu- nity Centre