A10 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, July 30, 2003

New look
on Lakelse

Drive through, town square —
and gas bar to change area

THE START OF the drive
through at the Lakelse
Ave. Tim Hortons is the
first of what will be sev-
eral dramatic changes in
how that area looks,

In return: for the drive
through, which will take
up that small section of
Ottawa St. beside Tim
Hortons, franchise owner
Brian Archibald has
agreed (o develop a small
town square,

And on Monday night,
Safeway was before city
council to seek approval
for a gas bar to be built on
the northwest corner of its
parking lot where Ottawa
St, meets up with Lakelse.

All of the environ-
mental and other work for
the project has taken place
but a renewed approval is
needed to sever it from a
plan to expand Safeway's
main store,

That’s because Safeway -

could not reach a deal
with the owners of the
Bargain Shop property to
purchase a portion of it al-
lowing the food store to
expand eastward.

Along with the gas bar
will come landscaping and
improvements where the
Safeway parking lot fronts
on to Lakelse Ave. and in
the parking lot itself.

But several other pro-
jects in the area have been
temporarily shelved.

. Had Safeway been able
to purchase the section of
the Bargain Shop store,
more landscaping where
the parking lot meets La-
kelse would have taken
place and more of the
parking lot itself would

have been fixed.

Even though the expan--:

sion plan has been
shelved,
willing to fix up the park-

ing lot in front ofthe Ba

tain Shop, but it could not

reach an agreement with
the owners of the Bargain

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gas bar and turn the sec-
tion of Ottawa St. between
Safeway and the Gobind
Mall into a curving road-
way.

Going through all or a
portion of the 7-Eleven
property would create a
more traditional intersec-
tion by aligning that por-
tion of Ottawa St. with
Sparks on the other side of
Lakelse.

“We're planners and
we've been asked to plan
something there,” Trawin
said, “The first thing is to
find out if we can ‘physic-
ally do it.”

“And if we can physic-
ally do it, it would have to
be the right opportunity
with property owners there

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the old 7-11 property
downtown for a better
alignment where Otta-
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section of Ottawa St, run-
ning adjacent to Tim Hor-
ton’s. The move placed it
in between that section
and Sparks, creating a
dog-leg connection with
Sparks through Lakelse.

project includes the
construction of a small
town square of inter-
locking bricks, land-
scaping and seating.
Safeway also wants to
build a gas bar on its
property.

Open Sunday
Skeena Mall

Shop property, said city ~ ;

planner David Trawin.
“Basically the owners
of the Bargain Shop prop-

erty also wanted Safeway —

to pay them in addition to

having Safeway do the®
work. That seems kind of

wonky,” said Trawin.

Also on the back bur-
ner, at least for now, is a
city plan to convert the

former Esso gas station:

property on the corner of
Lakelse and Emerson into
a mini-park.

The site has been
fenced off and vacant
since the station building
was torn down in the miid-
1990s,

The proposed park use
by the city hinges on the
active life of the hydrocar-
bons underneath the sur-
face which date back to
the gas station days,

Esso told the city it is
content to have hydrocar-
bons break down over
time. Until that happens
and the site can then be
used for some other pur-
pose, il has no plans for
the location, said Trawin.

The original idea was to
have Esso continue to pay
property taxes with the
city assuming the cost of
developing it as a park, he
said.

Esso was interested in-

the plan when it thought it
paid $1,500 a year in
taxes.

But when Esso disco-
vered it was paying $7,500
a year in taxes, it then
wanted the city lo cover
off the entire amount for
five years in addition to
having the city pay to
have the site developed.

“Having the city deve-
lop the site would have
cost $40,000 and with pay-
ing the taxes, the amount
would have been $80,000,
That's an awful lot for just
a five-year lease,” said
Trawin,

“We'd have to go to
other properly owners to
make up that $40,000 in
taxes and that just
wouldn't have worked,”

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