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Fighting for Fifth Residents want to preserve single-family detached homes for the future By Theresa McManus
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SAVE OUR STREET Susan Dextras and Don Hauka, front, and fellow Fifth Street residents want the city to abandon a proposal that would see portions of the west side of the street designated as residential-townhouse in the official community plan. Residents believe the same density can be achieved in ways that protect the character of their neighbourhood. PHOTO JENNIFER GAUTHIER
Fifth Street residents are anxiously awaiting to see what the city has in store for their neighbourhood. As part of the update to the official community plan, the City of New Westminster is considering a proposal to designate some parts of the west side of Fifth Street as residential-townhouse. In recent weeks, a steady stream of Fifth Street residents has written to city hall and appeared before council to urge the city to reject the plan. Gordon Lamont, who has lived on Fifth Street for 11 years, is disappointed the OCP is “targeting” his neighbourhood. He believes basement suites and laneway houses would enable the city to achieve the same density that would be offered by townhouse, but maintain the character of the neighbourhood. “I believe we can do that with much Continued on page 6
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Police investigating racist flyers in New West The community reacts to the flyers, which promote fascism as the “key for a new Canada,” by organizing a rally and protest
By Cayley Dobie
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An anti-fascism group will march in the Royal City at a rally this Sunday after racist, neo-Nazi flyers were spotted in the city last week-
end. The flyers were found at a bus stop in the 300 block of Sixth Street Saturday morning.They reportedly promoted fascism as the “key for a new Canada” and warned against an impend-
ing race war. It’s believed the posters were meant to be recruiting tools, similar to other posters found in cities like Abbotsford and Richmond in recent months, according to Imtiaz Popat, a member of Co-
alition Against Bigotry and one of the organizers of the upcoming rally. Popat was surprised to hear neo-Nazi posters were found in New Westminster; it’s the first time such literature has been found north
of the Fraser River. On Sunday, Popat joined with about 200 other people at a Sikh temple in Abbotsford to protest similar neo-Nazi literature that’s been distributed in the community recently.
“People think it’s a joke. It’s not,” he said when asked what could be done to stop these hate groups. To his dismay, Popat said it took law enforcement in Abbotsford longer than Continued on page 3
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