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COPE Coun. David Cadman says recent comments on CBC radio by NPA Coun. Kim Capri almost brought on a disastrous bout of seasickness.

Capri, the rookie councillor who has become Mayor Sam Sullivan's go-to-woman on housing issues, has been pushing to allow the construction of smaller low-income SRO units - down to 270 sq. ft. from the current 300-400 sq. ft. minimums.

"We could also call that cruise ship style housing," Capri apparently said, according to Courier columnist Allen Garr.

That didn't sit well with Cadman, who has been known to wear nautical themed headware on occasion.

"I almost puked," Cadman declared at a meeting of West End residents yesterday, explaining, "I've never seen a cruise ship where people have to pad down the hall to go to the bathroom."

Nevertheless, Liberal MLA Lorne Mayencourt was also at yesterday's West End meeting and came to Capri's defence, arguing smaller sized units would be inherently less costly to construct.

"Why are we afraid of 275 sq. ft. housing units?" said Mayencourt, whose rhetorical question was answered with a volley of boos.

Meanwhile, Vision Vancouver Coun. and occasional Kim Capri-detractor Tim Stevenson insists it was not he who scrawled "Kim Fucking Capri" in black marker on a wall inside the vacant North Star Hotel, the dilapidated old building that is coincidentally currently being, uh, squatted on by six Downtown Eastside activists.

Stevenson visited the hotel today along with a handful of reporters. The graffiti culprit remains at large.

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Tags: vancouver, sro, downtown eastside, housing