CAPILANO COLLEGE
LYNNMOUR PHASE ONE -- INFORMATION SHEET
Issued November 23, 1972
in connection with Sod Turning
A.

ON ACQUISITION OF SITE

The College has been looking for a site or sites for almost three
years. Earlier demographic and geographic surveys had shown
that the Capilano River area would have certain advantages for a
central campus. However, the absence of enough accessible and/or
available land in this area and in other parts of West Vancouver or
North Vancouver City put the College into negotiations with North
Vancouver District for land in central North Vancouver.
What is now called the Lynnmour area had been suggested to us by
the District Council and through negotiations last year a 34 acre
parcel was designated for potential College use, On application by
the College this land was re-zoned from residential to public assembly
in August of this year and an agreement was finalized this month for
the College to lease the southern 11 acres of this parcel with an
option on the remainder, The College lacks capital money at this
time to purchase the land outright.
B,

THE PHASE ONE LYNNMOUR FACILITY

Commensurate with negotiations for the re-zoning and land lease, the
College was planning a first phase of construction for the Lynnmour
land,
With the approval of the three supporting school boards, an application
was made to the g,overnment for $1.45 million for this phase one
project. This was reduced by the government to $1.09 million as per
the order-in-council of June this year, This meant a sizeable reduction of
square footage in the planned construction,
The final floor plan provides for an area of over 33,000 square feet of
new construction, And, as planned from the beginning, an additional
17,000 square feet will be provided by moving to Lynnmour our ten
existing relocateable wooden buildings,
The new construction is to be of steel-frame concrete slab, with
pre-cast cement on outside walls, All inside walls will be of a
moveable nature so as to provide maximum flexibility in use or reuse
of areas.

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The breakdown of the main spaces in the total 50,000 square feet of
facilities is r�ughly: 9,500 square feet for general teaching areas,
5,500 square feet for a Media, 5,000 square feet for Science labs,
5,000 square feet for divisional faculty offices and student resources
learning and study space, 5,000 square feet for a cafetheatre, 3,500
square feet for the Media Resources Program and College graphics
area, 3,000 square feet for Business and Secretarial programs teaching
space, and 1,000 square feet for the Student Services Centre,
The Phase One, 11 acre site development is planned on a basis that
will leave untouched as much as possible of the natural growth, while
the partially cleared areas around the buildings and the fringes
of the open areas will be planted with a wide variety of interesting
plants to form the basis.of a College botanical garden.