Recommendations Relating to the District of North Vancouver Waterfront:
1. Open Street Ends and public Right of Ways for public use.
2. Remove unauthorized encroachments on DNV Waterfront Property.
3. Maintain existing Street Ends and public Right of Ways.
4. Any opportunity to obtain additional appropriate properties IF AND WHEN THEY BECOME AVAILABLE should also be strongly considered
5. Remove encroachments that extend to below the high water tide line.
6. Reinstate DNV policy of opening three Street Ends a year.
7. Provide signage for existing Street Ends at both the street and beach levels.
8. DNV should exercise some control over water/dock leases.
This last recommendation would involve the Vancouver-Fraser Port Authority (VFPA) which has jurisdiction over DNV waterfront below the high tide line. Leases are the water leases given by the VFPA to each single private owner for private docks in Indian Arm and Burrard Inlet.
Privately controlled docks should be phased out as their port authority approved water leases expire as they block access to the public shore due to their method of construction and placement of barriers. The leased docks are attached/joined up to privately owned DNV land. When an owner wishes to obtain permission to change, enlarge, remodel, etc. their properties, then the DNV should require the removal of encroachments, docks, rock, concrete and other barriers on the beach, which make public beach access difficult.
Recommendations Relating to the District of North Vancouver Waterfront:
1. Open Street Ends and public Right of Ways for public use.
2. Remove unauthorized encroachments on DNV Waterfront Property.
3. Maintain existing Street Ends and public Right of Ways.
4. Any opportunity to obtain additional appropriate properties IF AND WHEN THEY BECOME AVAILABLE should also be strongly considered
5. Remove encroachments that extend to below the high water tide line.
6. Reinstate DNV policy of opening three Street Ends a year.
7. Provide signage for existing Street Ends at both the street and beach levels.
8. DNV should exercise some control over water/dock leases.
This last recommendation would involve the Vancouver-Fraser Port Authority (VFPA) which has jurisdiction over DNV waterfront below the high tide line. Leases are the water leases given by the VFPA to each single private owner for private docks in Indian Arm and Burrard Inlet.
Privately controlled docks should be phased out as their port authority approved water leases expire as they block access to the public shore due to their method of construction and placement of barriers. The leased docks are attached/joined up to privately owned DNV land. When an owner wishes to obtain permission to change, enlarge, remodel, etc. their properties, then the DNV should require the removal of encroachments, docks, rock, concrete and other barriers on the beach, which make public beach access difficult.