North Shore Outlook – Four futures for Ridgeway Annex.

Nearly 100 North Vancouver residents and seven school board trustees gathered in the gymnasium of the once vibrant, now vacant, Ridgeway Annex school Tuesday to hear four possible futures for the former school property now up for grabs.

The lease and purchase proposals were made by representatives from three interested property development companies (Anthem, Darwin Construction and Atti Group)  and one local childcare business.

But when all the cards were down, Ridgeway’s four possible futures could be grouped into just two options. One, the building is saved and renovated for use as daytime daycare and nighttime community centre. Or two, it’s bulldozed and new housing is built atop the Ridgeway property at 450 East Fifth St.

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Musqueam Band proposes development on University Endowment Lands.

Onni development backlash grows.

A group of City of North Vancouver residents, about 700 of them so far, are hoping to stay council’s hand on approving what could be the largest development in Upper Lonsdale history.

City resident Linda Heese and a few other volunteers have been collecting signatures for a petition calling on council to reject a proposal from developer Onni Group for the Safeway site at 13th Street and Lonsdale Avenue. The project would see 344 residential units in two towers measuring 180 and 240 feet in height, atop a commercial podium including a new grocery store. The project goes to a public hearing and likely vote by council on Nov. 19.

But in Heese’s view, the towers are too tall and dense for the neighbourhood and abut the sidewalks, which will “change, irrevocably” the character of what is now a nice pedestrian street.