April Newsletter
ARBUTUS
RIDGE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION
NEWSLETTER,
APRIL 2012
MARK
YOUR CALENDAR – MAY 30th
– ARCA’S FIRST ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING as a registered society!
Time:
Registration at 6:00 p.m. for 7:00 p.m. meeting
Place:
Arbutus Village Recreation Centre, Suite B2 Arbutus Shopping Centre
Agenda:
Annual Reports from Chair and Treasurer
Election
of Officers for 2012-2013
Programme:
Invited Guests from other Vancouver Community Associations:
“How
can community associations best represent residents’ concerns with
the City of Vancouver?” We want your input!
Refreshments
will be served.
More AGM information later!
RECENT
ACTIVITIES - ARCA has been active in our City Plan association
- ARKS – which
covers
Arbutus Ridge, Kerrisdale and Shaughnessy Heights. Issues for ARKS
have included:
·
Its
sheer survival without City support. When first set up, the City Plan
associations were allocated a small budget by the City and a City
Planner would attend the monthly meetings. That support has been
withdrawn.
·
The
multiple development planned for 3213 East Boulevard is still not
settled.
·
The
Arbutus Corridor – what to do with it! Bike lane? Gardens? Housing?
Transit?
ARCA
has supported other communities in their struggle to maintain
community character and adherence to their City Plans. Most recent
was our support to the Mount Pleasant association, RAMP, in its
opposition to the 19 storey high-rise on Kingsway.
ARBUTUS
SHOPPING CENTRE REDEVELOPMENT – Our major concern with the
redevelopment is the diversion of the underground water if there are
three floors of underground parking. There are major streams
under that property. Larco said they would “look after us”
if there were problems but we have no idea what that means.
LANEWAY
HOUSING – So many problems with this new way to densify our city:
trees are cut down, neighbours lose their privacy from a 1 ½ to 2
storey house, extra cars are parked on the street and laneway access
is limited. Toronto decided they weren’t good for their
city. What do you think? Did you know that with a laneway
house, a basement suite, a lock-off unit in the house, you can have
four families on a single family lot!
Bring
your ideas and concerns to the AGM on May 30th
!
Doreen
Braverman, Chair
604-263-6051
arca@shaw.ca