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‘BOWSER ISLAND’
Despite concerns, RV campers say they aren’t hurting anyone NICK LABA
nlaba@nsnews.com
Despite complaints from some residents in the surrounding community, people living in an encampment of motor homes in North Vancouver say they’re not hurting anyone.
A piece of land encircled by the Upper Levels Highway and Capilano Road, known to locals as “Bowser Island,” has received increasing attention over the past several months. After an overhead image of the site from a real estate photographer was shared on a community Facebook group late last year, concerns have been raised of backed up drainage, fires on site, as well as an accumulation of organic waste and garbage. But according to people living on the site, and some neighbouring residents who’ve become acquainted with them, the concerns are untrue or exaggerated and are only being raised because those homeowners don’t want the campers there. District of North Vancouver Coun. Herman Mah said he’s spoken with residents in the surrounding Pemberton Heights neighbourhood, as well as some of the people living on Bowser Island – which gets its name from the adjacent Bowser Avenue. Continued on A19
Carin Clarke says she’s lived on North Vancouver’s ‘Bowser Island’ for around eight months, and that concerns about the encampment from some residents in the surrounding neighbourhood are untrue or overblown. NICK LABA / NSN
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