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City of North Vancouver Day OKs free car and slide Lonsdale 1,000 feet.
On August 22, it will be the most fun you can legally have on Lonsdale.
City of North Vancouver council voted Monday night to revive the street festival Carfree Day in Lower Lonsdale and add a water slide 1,000 feet running all the way Keith Road to Third Street.
If the plan materializes, city staff will block below the intersections Keith road and redirect traffic and buses for day festival, while Utah profit business Drag City operates the slide.
Council largely sprang the plan including the water slide.
This is an opportunity for us to have an event that puts the City of North Vancouver on the map as a place that is fun to be and come hang out, said Councilor Linda Buchanan, who added that not only its kids excited to hit the slide, but then she was.
Mayor Darrell Mussatto characterized the plan as a soap box derby of the 21st century.
I think we used to have soap boxes down Lonsdale at some point in time and it will start sort of up a notch, he said.
Mussatto said he to work on his courage to head down the slide itself.
Slide won t be free if the company uses the same pricing structure it has in other cities, a single slide begins at 15 if you pre-purchase your tickets Participants must have at least five years and 117 centimeters height.
The estimated 45 000 to 75 000 liters of water required to operate the blade or can be emptied directly into storm drains, collected and taken for treatment or used for green water city The company is also donating a portion of its profits to dig wells in underdeveloped countries and will kick in an additional 7 000 to 10 000 in donations to the Canadian cancer Society, according to a staff report from the city.
For its part, the city was ready to set up for the cost of 2,500 additional police officers.
A slides residents of Salt Lake City downhill event of the slideshow City The City of North Vancouver brings the slide, Aug. 22 - provided, drag the City.
Car Free Day festivals usually see merchants and vendors booths open food in the street, as well as live music stages, children's games, sports and hobby demonstrations, art performance, information booths from community groups and glad-handing politicians.
Under the plan North Vancouver, Esplanade and Third Street will remain controlled intersections traffic throughout the day.
The last year events on Main Street in Vancouver, Fourth Avenue, Denman Street and Commercial Drive attracted about 250 000 people, according to Matt Carrico, a representative of the car-free Society Vancouver, which has pledged its support to the event.
Coun Pam Bookham concerned the city was jumping the gun by not adequately consulting business owners who may have legitimate concerns about street closures Coun Holly Back, however, countered that companies win big on double event.
Being in a small business myself, it is only the more his little evidence No please, don t bring 20,000 people to my door, like, mocks, I think it is incredible and it is a very, very exciting thing coming to North Vancouver, she said.
Councilor Rod Clark exception to the fact that the Association Lower Lonsdale companies that received grants from the city in previous failed attempts to form a Business Improvement Area, is a project partner During the campaign election 2014, the business association has donated to candidates Board Iani Makris and George Pringle.
I understand that's no organization funded by the city that does this, he said the fact the Association Lower Lonsdale companies decided to take political advantage is a problem for me, I'll challenge every nickel that taxpayer funds them, for any reason.
Later in the meeting, Clark made a motion for the board to ask the business group to provide its policy on the funding of candidates for municipal elections he was beaten with Mussatto Back, Mussatto vote and Councilman Craig Keating against .
The vote to host the Car Free Day and drag the city adopted 7-0.
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