The District is looking for your input on the Capilano Road Improvement Project, a project intended to increase the safety of travellers along Capilano Road, between Fullerton Avenue and Highway 1.

If you are interested in providing feedback, and would like to learn more about the project, please have a look through the presentation files attached here. These slides were shown at the June 18 public open house held at Norgate School. To provide feedback, please fill out the survey form attached here. Completed surveys can be returned by email to golierp@dnv.org, faxed to 604-987-7185 or mailed or dropped off at District Hall. We will be accepting these surveys until Friday, July 10.

Please click here to view the District’s 2008 Annual Report.

The report includes audited financial statements for 2008, permissive tax exemptions provided in 2008, divisional overviews, as well as reporting on 2008 objectives and objectives for 2009 and beyond. Residents are encouraged to review the report and provide feedback. The report will also be available for viewing as of Monday, June 29, at the Clerks Office at District Hall (355 W Queens Rd.) or at any District library.

Council will consider the Annual Report at the Council meeting on:
Monday, July 13, 2009 at 7 p.m. in the Council Chamber at District Hall.

This meeting is your opportunity to ask questions or make submissions on any aspect of the report.

North Vancouver District’s Official Community Plan (OCP) review process, Identity DNV 2030, kicked off with more than 200 people attending three exciting launch events in June. The new OCP will be created in consultation with the public over the next 18 months as we plan together for the future of our community.

Click here for descriptions of each of the three community launch events held in June and for information about upcoming Identity DNV 2030 events and happenings. Additional information about Identity DNV 2030 and the OCP review process is available at identity.dnv.org, or by calling 604-990-2421 or emailing identity@dnv.org.

As North Vancouver gears up for the 2010 Olympic Winter Games, some residents might be contemplating how they can provide accommodations for visitors during the Olympics. If you are thinking of welcoming visitors into your home, please consider the District’s applicable regulations. While the District will not be changing any of its regulations for the Olympics, there are a few ways you can legally provide accommodations.

Click here for a brief guide to providing accommodations to visitors while respecting the District’s zoning bylaw.

Metro Vancouver closed the Grouse Grind today because the steep mountain trail has become unsafe for hikers and repairs need to be done before it can reopen.

Summertime trail closures are rare, but unusually dry weather in June has resulted in very heavy trail usage. As a consequence, numerous large boulders along the trail route at the upper sections are unstable and could start rolling down the mountain on to hikers.

Metro Vancouver has to undertake rock scaling on Friday. Should the trail be made sufficiently safe, Metro Vancouver hopes to re-open the trail on Saturday, July 4.

Until the trail re-opens, hikers and fitness enthusiasts are not permitted on the Grouse Grind.

The District has just begun construction on the south side of Main Street between Lynn and Harbour Avenues to accommodate a wider sidewalk and an eastbound bicycle lane. The new bicycle lane is a continuation of the lane from the City of North Vancouver and its implementation should result in safer travel for both cyclists and drivers.

A new wider sidewalk and the installation of ornamental street lighting to improve night-time visibility along the south side of Main Street is also included in the project scope.

Construction within the roadway proper will be limited to the working hours of 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on weekdays and is expected to take approximately four to five weeks to complete. Every effort will be made to maintain traffic flow and access to the adjacent businesses during the work in progress. Please follow all signs and flag person directions.
 

The Honourable Loyola Hearn, Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, and the Honourable Rona Ambrose, Minister of the Environment and Minister responsible for Parks Canada, announced today the transfer of three lightstation properties in British Columbia's southern Gulf Islands to the Gulf Islands National Park Reserve of Canada. The transfer includes Portlock Point Lightstation on Prevost Island, Active Pass Lightstation at Georgina Point on Mayne Island and East Point Lightstation on Saturna Island.

An investment of $648,750 was announced today from Western Economic Diversification Canada (WD) and Service fransaskois de formation aux adultes (SEFFA) that will benefit Francophone post-secondary students, their instructors and post-secondary institutions in Saskatchewan, British Columbia, Yukon and Northwest Territories, with improved access to an expanded French-language resource library, Le Lien, at Collège Mathieu.

Canada's new government is providing British Columbia with $2.64 million for the Food Safety Initiative (FSI) to enhance and promote food safety systems in its food processing industry.

The Competition Bureau announced today that the sale of Agricore United's AUV grain handling terminal in the Port of Vancouver will go to a Trustee. This follows Agricore United's decision to abandon its challenge to the 2002 Consent Agreement with the Bureau, which required it to sell either the UGG (now AUV) terminal or the Pacific Elevators Limited terminal.

The Honourable Carol Skelton, Minister of National Revenue and Minister of Western Economic Diversification today released Revisiting Portraits of Small Business Growth and Employment in Western Canada.